February 27, Nicolas Sarkozy held a cabinet reshuffle, appointing Alain Juppe and other foreign affairs, a position it had occupied from 1993 to 1995, under Jacques Chirac. Juppe replaces Michele Alliot-Marie, who, entangled in its affairs Tunisian, was forced to resign. "The shock wave reached Europe in the Arab heart," as the newspaper of Brussels: "The wind of democratic revolt that blows over the past two months has made her first 'collateral damage'," he observes.
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