Sarkozy reins in spending, marks 2005 budget with return to EU fold
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Presentation of the 2005 budget marks the centre-piece of his brief tenancy, and Sarkozy is banking on strong public approval so that he can leave the government on a high note.
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French Finance Minister Nicholas Sarkozy is to reveal his budget for next year on Wednesday.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is due to be made head of President Chirac's governing party.
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At a low-key ceremony on Monday, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France inaugurated La CitÃ© de lâArchitecture et du Patrimoine, (the City of Architecture and Heritage) in Paris, which reopened after an $114 million, decade-long makeover.
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Popular former French finance and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has taken over the leadership of his country&#39;s conservative ruling party in a move that could change the face of French politics.
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France's President Sarkozy reshuffles his cabinet, naming a new number two to replace Alain Juppe.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy unveils his first and only budget on Wednesday, hoping to leave his mark by holding down spending and bringing France back inside EU deficit limits for the first time in four years.
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Nicolas Sarkozy will push for a European tax on "speculative movements" by financial groups, such as hedge funds, if he wins this year's French presidential elections.Comment
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President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s government on Wednesday unveils its 2008 draft budget, as France faces mounting pressure from its European partners over the worsening state of its public finances.
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PARIS, Aug 27 (IPS) - The government of President Nicolas Sarkozy  announced after it was swept into power this spring that its  policies would bring a "tranquil rupture" with many  cherished traditions, particularly in education.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday led his first Bastille Day celebrations since taking office, giving pride of place to regiments from across Europe in the traditional military parade.
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PARIS -- Voters resoundingly endorsed President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to overhaul the French economy, giving his party a commanding lead yesterday in the first round of elections for parliament.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy reshuffled his cabinet on Tuesday after losing a key minister in a parliamentary election and made former international lawyer Christine Lagarde France's first female economy minister.
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France will meet its European budget commitments in 2005, bringing its deficit under the 3 percent of the EU limit for the first time in four years, President Jacques Chirac said Wednesday.
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ECONOMISTS have warned that French President Jacques Chirac - s pledge to resume tax cuts in 2006 puts the country at risk of breaching EU budget deficit limits.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s government on Thursday unveiled details of a costly masterplan to &quot;shock&quot; the economy back to life, the first part of his ambitious economic and social reform drive.
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PARIS -- France's energetic and outspoken finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, took over the leadership of the country's ruling party yesterday, giving him a vehicle and platform to launch a presidential campaign in 2007 and setting up what is likely to be two years of intense political combat with the incumbent president, Jacques Chirac. Chirac, who turns 72 today, has hinted ...