France&#39;s public finances &#39;critical&#39;: PM
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French Prime Minister Francois Fillon on Monday warned that the country&#39;s public finances were in a &quot;critical&quot; state and that drastic action is needed.
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Airbus' major restructuring strategy includes 10,000 job cuts, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Tuesday, adding that his government will oppose any cutbacks in the form of layoffs.Comment
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Budget Minister Dominique Bussereau said that French economic growth could exceed 2.5 percent this year, judging by the most recent macroeconomic figures from the state statistics office.
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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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Investor's Business Daily - Europe: France&#39;s Nicolas Sarkozy seems serious about the big changes -- &quot;la rupture&quot; -- he vowed to make if elected president. In his first foreign policy address, he was forceful, positive and rooted in Western values.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin called a ministerial crisis meeting on two French journalists held hostage in Iraq on Monday as efforts to secure their release threatened to turn into a fiasco.
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France's finance minister, a presidential hopeful, says mosques need state funding and it's time for a century-old law banning financing for religious groups to be modernized, according to excerpts of a new book hitting the shelves on Thursday.
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French Finance Minister Thierry Breton has said it was important for the European Central Bank to listen to the views of eurozone finance ministers on developments in the euro-dollar exchange rate.
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France's President Sarkozy calls for taxes to hit polluters and for French use of pesticides to be halved.
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France's president unveils new economic reforms in a  command performance, but skeptics say he's short on detail
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Prime minister defends government's preparations.
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Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin insisted France would achieve growth of its gross domestic product (GDP) of 2.5 percent next year despite poor results in the third quarter of 2004, in an interview to be ...
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French president suggests situation in violence-ravaged Iraq has helped to prompt increase in terrorism. LONDON - On the eve of an official visit to London, French President Jacques Chirac says he is &quot;not
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PARIS, Feb 11 (IPS) - The French government's new plan for  reconstruction of the poorest neighbourhoods has sparked  criticism, both within the government and among the opposition.
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SCHEVENINGEN - The French public deficit is expected to come to 3.6% of output this year and around 3% or slightly less in 2005, Finance Minister Nicholas Sarkozy predicted.
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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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French conservative presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy praised Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday, saying France had much to learn from the actions of his Labour government.