Sarkozy gives France green plan
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France's President Sarkozy calls for taxes to hit polluters and French use of pesticides to be halved.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said France could boost its presence in Afghanistan to help the Afghan army and police in a surprise visit to give French troops his Christmas greetings.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy took the frosty edge off ties with Algeria on Tuesday during his first visit outside Europe, saying France and its colony for 132 years must bury a rocky past and reinvent the future.
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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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French President Jacques Chirac  declared Saturday that France was a natural trade partner to  China and, amid a flurry of air, rail and energy deals, played  down any threat from one the world's fastest growing economies.
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French President Sarkozy moves to prevent friction over Turkey's EU membership bid.
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Luxembourg - France had persuaded fellow euro zone countries that joint action was needed to temper the economic impact of high oil prices, French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday, but it has taken flak from partners for acting unilaterally
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The French president sees support for plans that would group nations as diverse as Libya and Spain
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy Thursday met with US Senator John McCain, one of the main contenders for the 2008 Republican nomination, and discussed a raft of issues including climate change and Iraq.
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"It's an excellent relationship"  He talks tough on Iran, likes President Bush and wants quotas on immigrants. And he's French.The frank-talking President Nicolas Sarkozy is out to puncture stereotypes about ivory tower French leaders as he makes his United Nations debut this week, laying out a new foreign policy that slides Paris closer to Washington on world hot spots.Sarkozy's differences with the United States _ over global warming, in particular _ may also make a mark at this year's U.N. General Assembly.American eyes will be on the conservative Sarkozy as much for his U.S.-friendly attitude as for his policies. It has been a long time since U.S. officials so eagerly awaited a French president, after the long chill under Iraq-war-opponent Jacques Chirac and decades of differences over issues from Middle East peace to European communism. Read more
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy suggests new taxes on internet and mobile phone use to fund advert-free TV.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to go further in easing France's maximum 35-hour working week.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Tuesday that France and Morocco had decided to cooperate on civil nuclear energy.
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French President Jacques Chirac strode energetically into his last formal European summit on Thursday championing the role of nuclear power in the fight against climate change.Comment
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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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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday he wants to use his country's upcoming presidency of the European Union to thrash out an agreement on changing the fishing quotas system.
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France wants to build bridges with eastern Europe, Nicolas Sarkozy told a Hungarian newspaper.