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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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英国首相托尼·布莱尔在一次峰会上让世界各国的领导人为之一乐，只因为他在法国议会上表达了他"在很多不同场合"对一位法国前总理的渴望。
他对几个国家的中左派领导人说："在回答有关利奥内尔·若斯潘政策的问题时，我本来是想用法语说'利奥内尔·若斯潘是一位我值得我学习的总理，他的治国之道也是我应该借鉴的。'"
"但是我却用法语说成了我在很多不同场合都渴望利奥内尔·若斯潘总理。"他的这番话引起了听众的笑声。
布莱尔在大会的开幕式致词上说，另一位法国前总理洛朗·法比尤斯的出席使他敢于在此展示他拙劣的法语。
"每次见到洛朗，我总是感到有点紧张，因为当我接到任务要用法语在法国国民大会上演讲时，他正好是国民议会的议长。"
另有约400位智囊团的分析家参加了"积极施政"大会，此次会议很有可能持续到周末。
大会结束后，星期日晚上和星期一将在伦敦南部郊区的巴格肖特召开由14国中左派领导人参加的峰会。
这些会议旨在促进所谓"第三条道路"。"第三条道路"在上世纪90年代对中左派政治有重要影响。
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1．"third way" 即"第三条道路"。90年代以来，以美国的克林顿（Bill Clinton）、意大利的普罗迪（Romano Prodi）、法国的若斯潘（Lionel Jospin）、英国的布莱尔（Tony Blair）和德国的施罗德（Gerhard Schroder）等为代表的左翼政党相继上台执政，他们不约而同地宣称在社会、政治和经济等方面奉行一种既不同於传统左派，又不同於右翼主流的"新中派"（the new centre）策略。在克林顿总统率先把其新的政治经济策略称之为"第三条道路"（The Third Way）后，"第三条道路"便成为欧美左派政党的政治标识，博得了欧美左翼力量的广泛响应，形成为欧美国家中一种新兴的政治运动。布莱尔首相上台后，更是高高举起了"第三条道路"的旗帜，亲自撰著了《第三条道路：面向新世纪的新政治》（The Third Way： New Politics for the New Century），以此作为他所领导的英国工党的执政纲领。
2．" the centre-left"即中左派。"第三条道路"的政治实践者是西方的中左力量（the centre-left），主要是西方国家的社会民主党，如英国的工党、德国的社会民主党等。
（中国日报网站译）
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Updated: 2003-07-16 01:00
