Sarkozy says won't be blackmailed by strikers
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SAINT-DENIS, France  - French President Nicolas Sarkozy told railway workers on Friday he would not be blackmailed into withdrawing a reform of their pensions privileges by strikes and street protests.
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The head of Adecco SA dismissed suggestions Friday that the world's largest temporary staffing company may have violated French and European Union competition rules.
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Hungary's government will not allow itself to be blackmailed by opposition street protests, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany said on Tuesday.
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French Economy Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said late Wednesday that there was no need to lower the 2005 economic growth forecast for France because of surging oil prices, saying such a move would dent confidence.
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Cecilia Sarkozy, newly divorced from France's president, said she and her ex-husband tried to work things out until the end and did not lie about their relationship to help his election campaign, according to a report Saturday.
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The head of the property company that sold conservative presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy a luxury apartment a decade ago denied on Wednesday allegations that Sarkozy got a substantial price break on the property.
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PARIS -- President Nicolas Sarkozy of France disappointed thousands of prisoners yesterday by refusing to sanction a traditional Bastille Day pardon. Sarkozy's two predecessors, Jacques Chirac and Francois Mitterrand, regularly ordered the release of prisoners on the July 14 holiday, to help relieve prison crowding. But Sarkozy, who is considered a law and order hard-liner, said in an interview that ...
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France's foreign minister indicated Tuesday that his country has no intention of publishing Yasser Arafat's medical records and will leave the decision about what to do with them up to his family.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be in the hotseat next week in Brussels where his plans to slow French momentum toward a balanced budget have unsettled some European partners.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview published Saturday he will support the candidacy of former socialist minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn to head the International Monetary Fund.
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France does not plan to stop the European  Union from opening new policy &quot;chapters&quot; in Turkey&#39;s accession  talks next month despite President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s opposition  to Turkish membership, an official said on Tuesday.
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France has no intention of making Yasser Arafat&#39;s medical records public and will leave the decision about what to do with them up to his family, the foreign minister said yesterday.
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The man at the centre of the rogue trader scandal at Societe Generale says he will not be made a "scapegoat".
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Cecilia Sarkozy, wife of French President  Nicolas Sarkozy, has rejected calls to appear before a  parliamentary commission to explain her role in securing the  release of six foreign medics from a Libyan jail.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy can help secure the release of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three American hostages held by leftist guerrillas, a rebel commander said in an interview published Thursday.
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Paris did not pay a ransom to secure the  release of two French journalists freed by Islamic militants in  Iraq, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told party  leaders Wednesday.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is keeping his country's business elite waiting.