World Business Briefing: France: Store May Open on Sunday
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LVMH MoÃ«t Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the luxury goods maker, can keep its Louis Vuitton flagship store in Paris open on Sundays because a visit to the outlet is a cultural experience, an appeals court ruled.
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The French foreign minister was expected Sunday to begin negotiations for the release of two journalists taken hostage in Iraq. President Jacques Chirac confirmed Sunday he
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In the latest case of French government intervention in the corporate arena, Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is to meet this week with the group that bottles Perrier mineral water, currently locked in a labor ...
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The massive retailer has reportedly renewed efforts to build its presence there.
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The retailer shows its turnaround may be working.
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The return of Roger Federer and the battle for spots at the season-ending Masters Cup will spice up the Paris Masters Series tournament starting on Sunday.
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There will be a shift of power on the French right this weekend which could mark the beginning of the end of the Chirac era in French politics.
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IBM  will open in France its first  nuclear consultancy centre in July, at a time when utilities  are looking to build new reactors and stretch the old ones&#39;  lifetime, an executive said on Monday.
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"Next week in New York there will be discussions to try to have a resolution. If in the framework of the U.N. things are not sufficient, we will act in the European framework."  France's foreign minister appeared Tuesday to soften his weekend warning of war with Iran if it develops nuclear weapons, emphasizing instead the need to 'negotiate, negotiate, negotiate without respite.'Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner also had said that European leaders were considering their own economic sanctions against Iran over its refusal to halt the enrichment of uranium in its nuclear program.Kouchner, who is on his first trip to Moscow as France's top diplomat, on Sunday said 'we must prepare ourselves for the worst' if Iran obtains nuclear weapons, and he specified that could mean a war. Read more
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France may push to merge EADS with Thales.
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Trade unions in France aren't giving up their short work week without a fight. They gathered more than 300,000 people Sunday for marches in cities across France, to protest plans to chip-away at the 35-hour ...
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PARIS President Jacques Chirac of France will return from a lavish five-day state visit to China on Tuesday with industrial orders worth more than $4 billion, a success that is not going unnoticed in neighboring European countries and may intensify
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France's centre-right government on Sunday stood defiantly by plans to make the 35-hour work week more flexible with the controversial prospect of longer hours, despite mass weekend protests.
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Watch a movie or make a mobile phone call. Soon, in France, you might not be able to do both at once.
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Air France said Monday it is considering a tie-up with Spanish carrier Iberia among other options.
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A town that hasn't had a grocery store for at least a decade may soon have two. A Super Stop &amp; Shop is set to open today on Plymouth Street in Halifax, and about a year from now, Wal-Mart expects to open a nearby ''supercenter&quot; that would include a full-scale supermarket.
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Politics: 7 October 2004, Thursday. A Bulgarian culture and information center will be opened in Paris by the prime minister, who is currently on a visit in the French capital.