French PM in modernisation pledge
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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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PM promises that government housebuilding plans will be subject to stringent new guidelines.
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French centre-right presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy sets out his foreign policy vision.
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France&#39;s energetic and outspoken finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, today took over the leadership of the country&#39;s ruling party, giving him a vehicle and platform to
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged  on Friday to press ahead with plans to overhaul ties with NATO  and launch a Mediterranean Union in 2008, shrugging off  criticism of his foreign policy since he took office.
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France&#39;s prime minister has announced plans to let workers negotiate workweeks that exceed the current 35-hour limit. Jean-Pierre Raffarin also vowed to cut the current 9.9 percent unemployment rate by a 0.1
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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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President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s right wing party was headed for a landslide victory that would hand him a sweeping mandate to reform France, after the first round of parliamentary elections on Sunday.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's party vows to press ahead with reforms despite losing seats in parliament.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, with a strong, if reduced, parliamentary majority in hand, plans to waste no time in rolling out his ambitious and contested programme of economic reforms.
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Politics: 7 October 2004, Thursday. A Bulgarian culture and information center will be opened in Paris by the prime minister, who is currently on a visit in the French capital.
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CLICHY-SOUS-BOUS, Sep 24 (IPS) - The community in this Paris suburb is waiting  keenly for transformation promised by France's new  government.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, his new government in place and five years in power ahead of him, vowed Wednesday to carry out swiftly the &quot;daring&quot; reform programme that helped get him elected last month.
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France's Prime Minister outlines plans to extend the controversial 35-hour working week.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday he and British Prime Minister Tony Blair had agreed on how to reform the EU's institutions while Germany reported progress towards a treaty.
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ISLAMABAD: The Newly elected Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Friday vowed to ensure good governance in the country which would give priority to merit and ability in all fields.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin met his British counterpart Tony Blair in London, using the occasion to bring him up to speed on changes to his government in Paris.