Sarkozy says France could use veto in trade talks
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President Nicolas  Sarkozy said on Tuesday that France would veto any World Trade  Organisation (WTO) agreement that did not satisfy its  requirements on agriculture.
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The European Union cannot accept an agreement to resolve WTO free-trade talks on &quot;any terms,&quot; EU trade chief Peter Mandelson said Tuesday after France promised to veto any deal threatening French agriculture.
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He first threatened and then charmed, but either way French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy drew little support for his plans to harmonize corporate taxes in the European Union during a tour of new member ...
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Splits appeared within the European Union over the role of the blocâs trade chief, Peter Mandelson, in getting global trade talks moving again last weekend. Mr. Mandelson and other ministers from trade powers met Saturday in Davos, Switzerland, and agreed to push ahead with negotiations aimed at getting a deal for the World Trade Organizationâs Doha round. The round was suspended last July as a result of big differences, chiefly over farm trade, and it risks running out of time soon. France, a longtime defender of Europeâs agricultural interests, criticized Mr. Mandelson over the Davos meeting, accusing him of going beyond his authority. Franceâs criticisms were echoed by Austriaâs farm minister. Germany, which holds the European Union presidency, supports Mr. Mandelson, said Michael Glos, the German economics minister.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a joint call here on Monday for greater regulation of international financial markets.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy rules out pardoning prisoners on Bastille Day - breaking with tradition.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday that he will seek tougher U.N. sanctions on Iran for continuing to produce nuclear fuel, but backed away from his foreign minister's warning that Europe should prepare for war.
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Author Bernard-Henri LÃ©vy rejects French President Nicolas Sarkozyâs contention that his countrymen think too much.
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Creating a defence and aerospace industrial champion centered on France may be impossible for Nicolas Sarkozy to engineer during his last days as finance minister, as political considerations cloud the ...
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France appeared on a collision course  with the European Union on Thursday after Brussels warned Paris  not to interfere with any foreign bids for Societe Generale in  the wake of its rogue trading losses.
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A senior adviser to French President Nicolas Sarkozy said France remained opposed to any hostile bid for Societe Generale , the French bank hit by a trading scandal.
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Poland on Friday held out the possibility it could drop its threat to veto talks on a new European Union treaty next week, saying compromise was closer after lobbying by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy meets with counterpart Wolfgang Clement in Berlin on Monday in an attempt to heal the recent rifts in Franco-German industrial relations with plans for a shipbuilding alliance.
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The head of private French energy group Suez has written to President Nicolas Sarkozy in an attempt to unblock its stalled merger with state-controlled Gaz de France, the Financial Times reported Tuesday.
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"Next week in New York there will be discussions to try to have a resolution. If in the framework of the U.N. things are not sufficient, we will act in the European framework."  France's foreign minister appeared Tuesday to soften his weekend warning of war with Iran if it develops nuclear weapons, emphasizing instead the need to 'negotiate, negotiate, negotiate without respite.'Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner also had said that European leaders were considering their own economic sanctions against Iran over its refusal to halt the enrichment of uranium in its nuclear program.Kouchner, who is on his first trip to Moscow as France's top diplomat, on Sunday said 'we must prepare ourselves for the worst' if Iran obtains nuclear weapons, and he specified that could mean a war. Read more
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A look at French President Nicolas Sarkozy's positions on key issues:
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France and Africa must remould their relationship and change their ways, French minister Nicolas Sarkozy says.