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 British Prime Minister Tony Blair entertained world leaders at a summit here with the story of how he told France's parliament of his desire for a former French premier "in many different positions."
"I was asked questions about Lionel Jospin's policy and I meant to say in French that Lionel Jospin was a prime minister with policies I want to emulate," he told centre-left leaders from several nations.
"Instead, I said in French that Lionel Jospin was a prime minister I desired in many different positions," he said to laughter from the audience.
Blair said in his speech to open the conference that he had been inspired to speak of his linguistic shortcomings by the presence here of another former French prime minister, Laurent Fabius.
"Whenever I see Laurent, I always feel a slight nervousness, because he was president of the French national assembly when I undertook the mission to address them in French," he said.
The "progressive governance" conference, also attended by some 400 think-tank analysts, was set to continue throughout the weekend.
It was to precede a summit Sunday evening and Monday in the English countryside at Bagshot, south of London, to be attended by centre-left leaders from 14 nations.
The events aim to give a fillip to the so-called "third way" that informed the politics of the centre-left in the 1990s.
(Agencies)
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英國首相托尼·布萊爾在一次峰會上讓世界各國的領導人為之一樂，只因為他在法國議會上表達了他"在很多不同場合"對一位法國前總理的渴望。
他對幾個國家的中左派領導人說："在回答有關利奧內爾·若斯潘政策的問題時，我本來是想用法語說'利奧內爾·若斯潘是一位我值得我學習的總理，他的治國之道也是我應該借鑒的。'"
"但是我卻用法語說成了我在很多不同場合都渴望利奧內爾·若斯潘總理。"他的這番話引起了聽眾的笑聲。
布萊爾在大會的開幕式致詞上說，另一位法國前總理洛朗·法比尤斯的出席使他敢于在此展示他拙劣的法語。
"每次見到洛朗，我總是感到有點緊張，因為當我接到任務要用法語在法國國民大會上演講時，他正好是國民議會的議長。"
另有約400位智囊團的分析家參加了"積極施政"大會，此次會議很有可能持續到周末。
大會結束后，星期日晚上和星期一將在倫敦南部郊區的巴格肖特召開由14國中左派領導人參加的峰會。
這些會議旨在促進所謂"第三條道路"。"第三條道路"在上世紀90年代對中左派政治有重要影響。
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1．"third way" 即"第三條道路"。90年代以來，以美國的克林頓（Bill Clinton）、意大利的普羅迪（Romano Prodi）、法國的若斯潘（Lionel Jospin）、英國的布萊爾（Tony Blair）和德國的施羅德（Gerhard Schroder）等為代表的左翼政黨相繼上臺執政，他們不約而同地宣稱在社會、政治和經濟等方面奉行一種既不同於傳統左派，又不同於右翼主流的"新中派"（the new centre）策略。在克林頓總統率先把其新的政治經濟策略稱之為"第三條道路"（The Third Way）后，"第三條道路"便成為歐美左派政黨的政治標識，博得了歐美左翼力量的廣泛響應，形成為歐美國家中一種新興的政治運動。布萊爾首相上臺后，更是高高舉起了"第三條道路"的旗幟，親自撰著了《第三條道路：面向新世紀的新政治》（The Third Way： New Politics for the New Century），以此作為他所領導的英國工黨的執政綱領。
2．" the centre-left"即中左派。"第三條道路"的政治實踐者是西方的中左力量（the centre-left），主要是西方國家的社會民主黨，如英國的工黨、德國的社會民主黨等。
（中國日報網站譯）
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Updated: 2003-07-16 01:00
