Sarkozy government to unveil budget as finances &#39;critical&#39;
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President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s government on Wednesday unveils its 2008 draft budget, as France faces mounting pressure from its European partners over the worsening state of its public finances.
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Nicolas Sarkozy resigned as finance minister Monday, a day after accepting the leadership of France&#39;s conservative party and effectively becoming a rival to his old boss, President Jacques Chirac.
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Â· Special retirement terms for state workers targetedÂ· French president begins talks with unions today
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Chancellor Gordon Brown was today preparing for this weekâs vital Pre-Budget Report against a backdrop of dire warnings from business groups and economists
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PARIS: France's 2005 budget will cut the public deficit by about 10 billion euros and push it below the European Union's 3 percent ceiling, Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said in an interview to be ...
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New French President Nicolas Sarkozy is set to secure a big majority in parliament next month, according to a poll for the Paris Match magazine released on Wednesday.
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The NI Executive is to unveil its first budget and set out its plans for government over the next three years.
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France's president is heading for a showdown with European finance ministers over the French economy.
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European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet said Sunday that France&#39;s public finances were in &quot;very great difficulty&quot; with the worst public spending to output ratio in the European Union.
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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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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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President Nicolas Sarkozy will seek to bolster his mandate for pervasive reforms to energize France's sluggish economy in legislative elections starting Sunday.
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Mesdames, Messieurs, France is now open for business. Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidency on pledges to open up the economy, and his government is selling one message: Things have changed.
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France's political scene 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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The French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy fired the first serious shots yesterday in his campaign to become the next president when he presented a budget designed to show his capacity for both fiscal rigour ...
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy unveils his first and only budget on Wednesday, hoping to leave his mark by holding down spending and bringing France back inside EU deficit limits for the first time in ...
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France signalled it will slash its budget overspending next year to come into line with EU rules in a 2005 budget published on Wednesday and forecast economic growth of 2.5 percent.