France's Sarkozy attacked for national identity plan
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French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy was accused by his rivals of xenophobia and flirting with far-right voters on Friday after proposing to create a ministry for immigration and national identity.
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A plan by French President Nicolas  Sarkozy to commemorate a young communist resistance hero shot  by France's wartime Nazi occupiers has stirred controversy and  sparked accusations of manipulation by the government.
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French bank BNP Paribas revealed on Thursday it was stalking crisis-hit Societe Generale, while voices in the European Union were raised against France for warning it would ward off hostile bids.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, in his first speech yesterday as newly elected leader of France&#39;s ruling, rightwing party, appealed to his compatriots to build a &quot;new model of success&quot; to ensure the future became a hope rather than a threat.
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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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France's president is heading for a showdown with European finance ministers over its budget deficit.
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Former French PM Dominique de Villepin criticises the style of his one-time rival, President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy was set Tuesday to unveil a new government line-up forced upon him after his centre-right party&#39;s worse than expected showing in parliamentary elections.
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The French parliamentarian whose attempts to free two French hostages held in Iraq have provoked widespread official and media criticism hit back at attacks on his failed initiative.
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French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy addresses party activists shortly as he begins his bid for the presidency.
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Defeated French Socialist presidential  candidate Segolene Royal came under fire over her bid to lead  the leftist party on Monday, with one rival accusing her of  seeking to establish a monarchy.
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The number of anti-Semitic attacks in  France has more than doubled over the past year, with most  committed for vague reasons rather than ideology, France's  interior minister said in an interview published Friday.
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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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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is at  odds with his foreign minister over whether the country's  international television news channel should ditch English and  Arabic, and broadcast only in French.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has  taken legal action against the Web site of the magazine Le  Nouvel Observateur over an article describing what it said was  a text message he had sent to his ex-wife Cecilia, his lawyer  said on Thursday.
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Right wing French President Nicolas Sarkozy, despite an unexpected narrowing in his party&#39;s parliamentary majority, plans to move fast to overhaul the economy, with the deficit-ridden health care system a primary target.
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A plan by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to commemorate a young communist resistance hero shot by France's wartime Nazi occupiers has stirred controversy and sparked accusations of manipulation by the government.