Hollande’s Dinner Plans Include Putin, Obama, BNP: Opening Line

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Wonder if Francois Hollande is going to eat at both of the dinners he’s hosting separately in Paris tonight for Obama and Putin. The food is pretty good at Elysee Palace, one person’s opinion notwithstanding, and France’s president doesn’t look like he’s wrestling with a diet.

Although it’s hard to get a bite in when you’re talking a lot, and it sounds like Hollande is going to give Obama an earful for enforcing U.S. law against BNP Paribas -- a penalty that has sparked calls for BNP Chairman Baudouin Prot to resign, the Wall Street Journal reports this morning.