France's Sarkozy announces presidential bid
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Nicolas Sarkozy, France's centre-right interior minister, has formally announced his bid for the French presidency in a 2007 race likely to pit him against Socialist candidate Segolene Royal.Comment
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French Finance Minister Nicholas Sarkozy is to reveal his budget for next year on Wednesday.
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France's Socialists formally launched Segolene Royal's candidacy yesterday to compete in a fierce presidential race with high stakes for her and her party: Royal wants to be France's first female president and ...Comment
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Nicolas Sarkozy becomes the first French president to hold talks with the far-right's  Jean-Marie Le Pen in decades.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 21-year-old son is running for a post in local government as part of nationwide elections next month, the ruling conservative party said Wednesday.
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Mesdames, Messieurs, France is now open for business. Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidency on pledges to open up the economy, and his government is selling one message: Things have changed.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, one of France&#39;s most ambitious and visible politicians - and an in-house rival of President Jacques Chirac - moved to the helm of the president&#39;s party yesterday, a perfect podium for him to bid for the
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy unveils plans to give French employers incentives to allow overtime.
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PARIS -- President Nicolas Sarkozy sent a strong signal to France's disaffected minorities yesterday by appointing an outspoken advocate of Muslim women and a woman of Senegalese origin to his government -- among the country's most diverse ever.
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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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Nicolas Sarkozy, a flamboyant rival to President Chirac, is crowned as head of France's governing party.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is due to unveil a host of new measures to regenerate poor suburbs.
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French President Jacques Chirac has congratulated Nicolas Sarkozy on his nomination as president of his ruling party, Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
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French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the leading presidential candidate for France's ruling conservative party, swept through Washington yesterday, delivering an unabashedly pro-American speech and landing meetings with President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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French presidential hopefuls Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal are both selling themselves as something new for France and both have seasoned advertising executives to help them do it.
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France's political scene changed dramatically when Nicolas Sarkozy, the ambitious finance minister, was formally named the new leader of the ruling conservative party -- widely seen as the start of his march to replace Jacques Chirac as French president in 2007.
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French presidential hopefuls Nicolas  Sarkozy and Segolene Royal are both selling themselves as  something new for France and both have seasoned advertising  executives to help them do it.