Can we give this man a medal or something?:
Mr Chirac led three senior ministers out of the talks when Ernest-Antoine Seillière, the French head of the European employers’ group Unice, abandoned his mother tongue on the ground that English is “the language of business”.

Chirac’s a crook who never had the support of the French electorate. anyone that winds him up deserves praise, especially if they’re honest about international business conditions.