France aims for full employment by 2012, pushes back debt target
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New French Prime Minister Francois Fillon reiterated Tuesday a target of &quot;full employment&quot; by 2012 along with a two-year delay in meeting an EU limit on France&#39;s excessive public debt.
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France has unveiled a budget for 2005 which should bring its deficit back under European Union (EU) limits for the first time in four years.
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Iraq hopes to reach a debt forgiveness deal with leading creditor nations by the end of the year, and views as a "starting point" a proposal by France to initially relieve 50 percent of its debt, Iraq's Finance Minister said on Tuesday.
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France announced plans Tuesday to spend over 1 billion euros (&#36;1.2 billion) on tax breaks and other incentives to encourage companies to keep jobs in the country rather than going abroad.
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French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy unveils a budget promising to bring the deficit under control.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, with a strong, if reduced, parliamentary majority in hand, plans to waste no time in rolling out his ambitious and contested programme of economic reforms.
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UK chancellor Gordon Brown and the French finance minister propose G7 nations should give 100% debt relief to developing countries by the end of 2005.
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France ends a 47-year freeze on pensions for 80,000 troops from its former colonies
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French President Jacques Chirac has appealed to the French business community to seize the immense opportunities on offer in China, as he played down fears jobs could be lost at home.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to go further in easing France's maximum 35-hour working week.
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PARIS, Nov 30  - The French economy is set for growth in the next two years and unemployment should begin to fall once oil prices ease, the OECD said here Tuesday.
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French President Jacques Chirac told his government to push for the Paris Club of creditor nations to put a moratorium on debt payments owed by countries hit by tsunamis in southeast Asia.
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France must learn to work harder and rein in its &quot;excessive&quot; public sector if it is not to sink into irreversible economic decline, a committee of experts led by former IMF chief Michel Camdessus warned the government.
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France signalled it will slash its budget overspending next year to come into line with EU rules in a 2005 budget published on Wednesday and forecast economic growth of 2.5 percent.
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The French economy will surpass European Commission estimates, figures from the Bank of France indicate.
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Mesdames, Messieurs, France is now open for business. Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidency on pledges to open up the economy, and his government is selling one message: Things have changed.
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French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy unveils a budget with a promise to bring the deficit under control and high-profile tax breaks.