France's Royal shifts up a gear with manifesto launch
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France's Socialist champion Segolene Royal has shifted up an election gear, drawing to a close the &quot;listening phase&quot; of her campaign and finally spelling out what she plans to do if elected the country's first woman president in May.
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In a new book seen as a prelude to a presidential bid, France's finance minister is taking up the thorny question of how to reach out to an increasingly assertive Muslim minority and integrate it into a largely secular society.
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French Socialist presidential contender Segolene Royal was preparing to set out her election programme in a speech to party delegates widely seen a turning-point in the campaign.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy is to outline a more assertive role for France on the world stage when he delivers on Monday his first major address on foreign policy since taking office.
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PARIS -- French Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal, attempting to rejuvenate a faltering bid to become the country's first female president, announced a 100-point platform yesterday that includes sending juvenile delinquents to military-style boot camps and providing free contraceptives to women younger than 25. Royal billed the two-hour speech, delivered before an estimated 15,000 party members but aimed at a ...
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Socialist Segolene Royal, seeking to revive her flagging campaign to become next French president, said on Monday she was facing more attacks over her competence than a man would have to.
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The conservative French President reaches across party lines in filling a key foreign-affairs post
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Francois Fillon spells out plans to revamp France's institutions of government, in his first policy address as PM.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy appears to have won a mandate for change after his party swept first-round parliamentary elections, and he is picking up speed in his plans to overhaul France's welfare state. But rivals say he should watch out.
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Yves Saint Laurent has its eye on the power player: the CEO, the politician, the man in charge.
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French presidential hopefuls Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal are both selling themselves as something new for France and both have seasoned advertising executives to help them do it.
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PARIS -- In a new book seen as a prelude to a presidential bid, France's finance minister is taking up the thorny question of how to reach out to an increasingly assertive Muslim minority and integrate it into a largely secular society.
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French presidential hopefuls Nicolas  Sarkozy and Segolene Royal are both selling themselves as  something new for France and both have seasoned advertising  executives to help them do it.
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Socialist candidate Segolene  Royal, trailing in opinion polls and struggling to kick-start  her presidential campaign, unveiled 100 proposals on Sunday  that she said would make France a stronger, fairer place.
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Come Monday, President Nicolas Sarkozy will likely be one of Europe's most powerful leaders. With the government, parliament and top state bodies under his conservative camp's control, he should face little political resistance as he seeks to reshape France.
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The race opens this week for the prize of carrying the opposition Socialist Party (PS) banner in France's approaching elections, with the star of the opinion polls Segolene Royal well-positioned to pursue her bid to be the country's first woman president.
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The flashpoint of France's 2005 riots, this long-neglected neighborhood of graffiti-strewn housing projects and the poor, immigrant families they house welcomed a major visitor Tuesday: Segolene Royal, who could be France's next president.