{"id":14059,"date":"2014-04-24T08:09:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T08:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/france-environment-minister-orders-staff-to-dress\/"},"modified":"2014-04-24T08:08:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T08:08:23","slug":"france-environment-minister-orders-staff-to-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/france-environment-minister-orders-staff-to-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"France: Environment Minister Orders Staff to &#8220;Dress Appropriately&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-5478 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ppkl.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Royal {above}, French President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande&#8217;s former partner and the mother of his four children, has denied claims she ordered female staff at the Environment Ministry to &#8220;dress appropriately&#8221; and avoid revealing tops.}}<\/p>\n<p>The report, published by French weekly Le Point on Thursday, claimed Royal, who joined Hollande&#8217;s Socialist government following a cabinet reshuffle earlier this month, had also banned smoking in the ministry\u2019s courtyard and gardens in her presence.<\/p>\n<p>Denying the \u201cridiculous rumours\u201d on her Twitter account, Royal said the only instruction she had given colleagues was to be sparing in their use of public funds.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first such report to emerge in the French press.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, L\u2019Express, another French weekly, said the new environment minister had also banned the \u201cbise\u201d, France\u2019s traditional cheek kiss, urging staff to greet her with a more formal handshake instead.<\/p>\n<p>A formal presidential runner-up, Royal, 60, has made a remarkable comeback after a string of political setbacks, including a humiliating defeat in parliamentary elections in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>She has been criticized in the past for her allegedly dictatorial behavior and is often described by French media as the \u201cIron Lady\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>{france24}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Royal {above}, French President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande&#8217;s former partner and the mother of his four children, has denied claims she ordered female staff at the Environment Ministry to &#8220;dress appropriately&#8221; and avoid revealing tops.}} The report, published by French weekly Le Point on Thursday, claimed Royal, who joined Hollande&#8217;s Socialist government following a cabinet reshuffle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000051824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-14059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000051824,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14059.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14059.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14059.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14059.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14059.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14059.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000051824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14059"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=14059"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=14059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}