France cools towards EU project
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France has been ardently pro-EU - but enlargement has raised new fears, and voters might still reject the constitution.
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Japan and the United States are no longer categorically ruling out a French bid to host a revolutionary nuclear fusion project, an official with the European Union&#39;s executive arm says.
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France is reportedly planning a freeze on commercial genetically modified crops, which cover less than one percent of farmland in Europe&#39;s top agricultural producer.
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"It's quite obvious that this is a question for the group of wise men."  EU leaders agreed Friday to set up a "reflection group" to consider Europe's long-term future, but watered down a French demand that the committee determine how far the bloc should expand. via New Straits Times
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ROME, Oct 29  - French President Jacques Chirac urged the head of the incoming European Commission Friday to take &quot;the appropriate decisions&quot; to resolve a row over his EU executive team which has left the EU in limbo.
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France hopes to be able to  announce an agreement about a simplified management structure  for European defense group EADS  at a summit meeting on  Monday, but Germany is in no hurry to strike a deal.
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France's president is heading for a showdown with European finance ministers over its budget deficit.
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A consortium of major industrial nations has not been able to agree on where to build the world&#39;s first nuclear fusion reactor, but the European Union is making it clear that one will be built in France, in any case.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged  European Union nations on Monday to accept a greater share of  defense spending to cope with escalating global threats.
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Twenty European Union countries are  opposed to compromise proposals on agriculture floated by a  World Trade Organisation mediator as part of a bid to rescue  global trade talks, France said on Monday.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown must leave his &quot;outmoded&quot; view of the European Union behind when he becomes Prime Minister, France&#39;s newly-elected President Nicolas Sarkozy has said in a newspaper interview published Tuesday.
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Former French president Valery Giscard D&#39;Estaing said on Thursday that Turkish membership of the European Union (EU) would change the European project&#39;s nature and suggested a
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Germany and France offered a ringing endorsement for Turkey&#39;s eventual membership of the European Union at a bilateral summit, as French President Jacques Chirac brushed aside doubts about Paris&#39;s backing.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on  Thursday European Union leaders might be able to overcome  Polish threats of a veto and agree at a bloc summit next week  on the drawing up of a new EU treaty.
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BRUSSELS France will act as the host of a major global nuclear fusion project, after Japan gave up its bid to sponsor the $12 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, an EU official said on Monday.
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BERLIN France and Germany on Tuesday stood behind Turkey&#39;s campaign to join the European Union, although President Jacques Chirac of France stuck by his plan to hold a referendum on the issue and said membership negotiations could take years.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to Poland on Thursday could tip the balance in persuading its eurosceptic conservative leaders not to veto talks on a new European Union treaty.