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US president Barack Obama had announced support for India’s entry into NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group). French President Nicolas Sarkozy too has backed India for the same during his...
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US president Barack Obama had announced support for India’s entry into NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group). French President Nicolas Sarkozy too has backed India for...
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Paris, France (CNN) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy reappointed Francois Fillon as prime minister on Sunday, but named new defense and foreign ministers in a...
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PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy of France reappointed Francois Fillon the country’s prime minister and named a new, more rightist Cabinet on Sunday, a day...
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The French political system has a nice little gimmick: fire the prime minister. France, unlike, say, the United States, divides - in theory - its head of state and head...
made popular Nov 15 2010
It’s one of the grandest palaces in central Paris, housing treasured national documents from Napoleon’s will to the rules of tennis. But behind a makeshift...
made popular Nov 11 2010
The last refugee of a politician.
If all else fails: resort to attacking a vulnerable minority to stir far-right nationalist passions as a distraction.
Such is the...
made popular Sep 15 2010
When French unions lead what are likely to be several million angry workers through the streets Sept. 7 in nationwide demonstrations against looming pension reform,...
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More than half of France’s voters would prefer a candidate from the political left to conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy for the 2012 election, a survey said...
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French police moved in Friday to clear an illegal Gypsy encampment for the first time since President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a crackdown on the minority...
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French opposition lawmakers and media attacked a host of new government proposals targeting Gypsies and immigrants suspected of crimes, charging Sunday that President...
made popular Aug 2 2010
France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network’s North African branch, after the...
made popular Jul 28 2010
A brewing corruption scandal involving France’s richest woman, 87-year-old l’Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, and a top minister now has President Nicolas...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office denied a report by the online news service Mediapart that he had received cash from L’Oreal SA heiress Liliane Bettencourt...
made popular Jul 6 2010
The 21-year old will go before a judge on Friday, a court official said.
Police arrested him at a train station in Seine-Saint-Denis, near the northern Paris suburb of...
made popular Jun 25 2010
France will raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 in 2018 in an effort to get the country’s spiraling public finances under control, the labor minister said...
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Nicolas Sarkozy has been caught on film telling off a young man who wiped his hand on a friend’s sweater after shaking the French president’s hand.
made popular Apr 24 2010
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s centre-right party faces heavy losses in regional elections on Sunday that could affect the pace of reform as...
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France’s Sarkozy apparently was behind the hand that lead Obama to pressure Turkey to not veto the appointment of the Danish prime minister to head NATO:
My...
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French president Nicholas Sarkozy was awarded exactly one Euro in damages by a French court after fraudsters had hacked into his account and stole small sums of money....
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So Nicolas Sarkozy, responding to the minaret ban in Switzerland, admonishes us to practise our faiths with “humble discretion”. To be recommended humble...
made popular Dec 11 2009
Alistair Darling has delivered a blunt warning to the EU’s new French finance chief against meddling with the City of London.
As Nicolas Sarkozy gloated over...
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Nicolas Sarkozy was last night accused of living in ‘total fantasy’ after claiming he was among the first people to tear down the Berlin Wall.
In an...
made popular Nov 10 2009
For decades, the French considered it taboo to question whether immigration and foreign influences were diluting France’s social and cultural character. Indeed,...
made popular Nov 4 2009
It has been billed as a quest for the soul of the Gallic nation: a voyage of discovery, with Nicolas Sarkozy at the helm, to discover the je ne sais quoi that makes...
made popular Nov 3 2009
When France held the Rotating presidency of the EU last year a three day summit was held in the Grand Palace of Paris for Mediterranean Union.
A special made to order...
made popular Oct 28 2009
Tony Blair’s chances of becoming the first EU “president” nose-dived yesterday when President Nicolas Sarkozy distanced himself from the former prime...
made popular Oct 19 2009
The Financial Times today has published a full-page account of the development of Gordon Brown’s bank rescue plan, which is worth reading for many reasons, but...
made popular Oct 14 2009
The possible – or even probable – appointment of a 23-year-old Paris law student to run Europe’s largest office development has generated a storm of protest...
made popular Oct 13 2009
It has been billed as France’s political trial of the decade, a saga worthy of the darkest spy thriller that threatens to expose poisonous machinations and...
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France has been singled out for criticism for derailing the process of Turkey’s accession to the EU and damaging its internal reforms in a report for the European...
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It is acceptable to be opposed to Turkish acceptance into the European Union if objections are made on legitimate grounds of, say, criticism of Turkey’s...
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What good is it to be right if you’re all alone? President Nicolas Sarkozy of France wants his country to lead the world by example in restricting bankers’ bonuses....
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France’s anything-but-red baron, Philippe de Villiers, has described President Nicolas Sarkozy as an “impostor”, “a liar” and a...
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The main French opposition party, the Socialists – delighted to have an issue to distract from their own internal back-stabbing – have accused the President of...
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French President Nicholas Sarkozy is known for speaking his mind. But this time he may have said too much. Left-wing French paper Liberation is reporting that in a...
made popular Apr 17 2009
“Time flies when your’e having fun” they say. Well, if that’s the case, Sarkozy’s last eighteen months haven’t just flown by, they’ve rocketed...
made popular Dec 30 2008
French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is suing a fashion chain for selling bags emblazoned with nude images of her in the latest legal action over the presidential...
made popular Dec 17 2008
Nicolas Sarkozy risked blowing apart the European consensus over how to deal with the financial crisis by proposing today that each country launch sovereign wealth...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy pins the Legion of Honour medal on the jacket of former First Lady Bernadette Chirac during a ceremony held in Paris, Wednesday March 18, 2009.
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