Six weeks after the election of Sen. Barack Obama to the White House, Mr Louis Giscard d'Estaing, Député du Puy-de-Dôme for the UMP ruling party, Chairman of the France-USA Friendship Group at the Assemblée Nationale, has kindly accepted to host our members on December 16th.Mr Giscard d'Estaing, who spent much time in America in the past as a business executive, was elected Député du Puy-de-Dôme in 2002 and re-elected in 2007, has also been the Mayor of Chamalières since 2005. As chairman of the France-USA Friendship Group of the Assemblée Nationale, he took part in the Democratic Party Convention in Denver last summer.
He will give us his views of the upcoming Administration and will appraise the future of France-US relations under President Obama in the context of the current global economic crisis.
