Update 1: Gaymard to Become French Finance Chief
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French Agriculture Minister Herve Gaymard is to succeed Nicolas Sarkozy as finance minister, a government official said Monday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also said Budget Minister
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France's agriculture minister, Herv&#195;&#169; Gaymard, will replace Nicolas Sarkozy as finance and economy minister following the latter's resignation to take up the helm of the governing UMP party, officials said.
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France's popular, hard-driving finance minister -- moved a step closer to realizing his ambition to become the country's next president with his election as head of the ruling Union for a Popular Majority ...
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Mr Forgeard, current chief executive of Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer 80 per cent owned by EADS, will replace Philippe Camus as the French co-chief executive of EADS.
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Societe Generale chairman Daniel Bouton will stay at the helm of the scandal-marred bank, a bank official said Wednesday.
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Former French finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the EU's candidate to head the International Monetary Fund.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, one of France&#39;s most ambitious and visible politicians - and an in-house rival of President Jacques Chirac - moved to the helm of the president&#39;s party yesterday, a perfect podium for him to bid for the
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Fortis, Belgium&#39;s biggest financial- services company, named Jean-Paul Votron, former head of Citigroup&#39;s retail bank for Western Europe, to take over from Chief Executive Anton van Rossum.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has told President Jacques Chirac that he will stand for the leadership of the main governing party, officials say.
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The European Union on Tuesday chose France's Dominique Strauss-Kahn to head the International Monetary Fund.
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The planned merger between pan-European stock market Euronext and the New York Stock Exchange would allow France to boost its role in the financial world, NYSE chief executive John Thain said in the French press.
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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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France's political sphere changed dramatically when Nicolas Sarkozy, the ambitious finance minister, was formally named the new leader of the ruling conservative party -- widely seen as the start of his march to replace Jacques Chirac as French president in 2007.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday gave the post of prime minister to fellow conservative Francois Fillon, who promised to carry out Sarkozy's sweeping program for change
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Europe sought to extend its 61-year hold on the top post at the International Monetary Fund, as a former French finance minister picked up support yesterday and two European rivals bowed out of the race.
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"Clearly Sarkozy is setting the economic agenda"  She's French. She's female. And she is causing quite a stir. Christine Lagarde, the first woman finance minister for a G-8 nation, was rated the best minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government last month by one of France's top-selling newspapers. Not bad for a political newcomer who only two years ago was unknown outside legal and business circles, and who is vocally pro-market in a capitalism-wary nation.It hasn't always been this easy.In 1980s Paris, a law firm in the French capital told the young female applicant her sex disqualified her from high office. So Lagarde turned to Chicago-based law firm Baker &amp; McKenzie, where she went on to become the firm's first female director in 1999. Read more
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PARIS -- Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed yesterday that he will run for president next spring and will quit the government if his ruling center-right party backs his candidacy at a Jan. 14 meeting. Sarkozy could face Socialist Segolene Royal, who is seeking to become the first woman to lead France. But a recent surge by veteran far-right leader Jean-Marie ...