IMF Regime Change: With Christine Lagarde, US Corporations Enter the French Government http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24895

Unknown to the French, lawyer Christine Lagarde became the Foreign Trade Minister of the government of Dominique de Villepin. Only a few years ago, she was defending the interests of US multinationals to the detriment of French companies. Her political positions perfectly match her status as a member of the CSIS, the think tank of the oil lobby in the United States.

Christine Lagarde University of Saint Gallen, Switzerland, May 20, 2005. The composition of the new French government, announced on June 2, 2005, is amazing due to its incoherence. The Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, a Gaullist that won world recognition after his speech against the war in Iraq before the UN Security Council, is accompanied by a State Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is a committed supporter of the United States and Israel.The Finance Minister, a strategic element of the US penetration, becomes an Atlantist bastion. 

The Minister of Economy, Thierry Breton, is a member of a powerful liberal think tank: the Aspen Institute [1], and member of its French branch. Three delegate ministers back Breton. For reasons of internal balance of the presidential majority, François Loos is in charge of Industry. Jean-François Copé is in charge of the Budget and the State Reform. It is a young leader who learned the US methods of communication under the guidance of John Negroponte [2], who currently heads the group of US intelligence agencies. Finally, Christine Lagarde is in charge of Foreign Trade.