Sarkozy banks on growth and spending freeze for 2005 budget
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In his first and only budget as France's finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy promised that economic growth and a freeze on spending will bring France back within the EU's deficit limits in 2005 for the first time in four years.
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A look at projected spending for the government's 2005 budget year, which began Oct. 1, and in 2014, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
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PARIS  - France's public deficit will drop by about &#36;12 billion US in 2005 to conform with European Union rules, the French premier said in an interview.
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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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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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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy suggests new taxes on internet and mobile phone use to fund advert-free TV.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy won a  solid majority for political and economic reforms in  parliamentary polls on Monday, but the defeat of a top minister  in a late Socialist surge soured the right&#39;s celebrations.
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France announced plans Tuesday to spend over 1 billion euros ($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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A look at French President Nicolas Sarkozy's positions on key issues:
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France's president is heading for a showdown with European finance ministers over the French economy.
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The new government of President Nicolas Sarkozy is pondering whether to allow free access to the permanent collections of major French museums.
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A report aimed at rejuvenating France's economy has been presented to president Nicholas Sarkozy.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy was forced into a cabinet rethink on Monday after losing a senior minister in a parliamentary election that gave him an unexpectedly small majority, but his reforms remained on track.
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SCHEVENINGEN - The French public deficit is expected to come to 3.6% of output this year and around 3% or slightly less in 2005, Finance Minister Nicholas Sarkozy predicted.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday called for a European energy policy and said France&#39;s eurozone partners should join it in a plan to pass on surplus tax receipts to consumers.
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French Prime Minister Francois Fillon on Monday warned that the country&#39;s public finances were in a &quot;critical&quot; state and that drastic action is needed.
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What price happiness? French President Nicolas Sarkozy is seeking an answer to the eternal question Â so that happiness can be included in measurements of French economic growth.