Sarkozy heading for EU showdown
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France's president is heading for a showdown with European finance ministers over the French economy.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to win a huge parliamentary majority to help him push through tax and labor reforms when voters cast ballots for the fourth time in eight weeks in a run-off election on Sunday.
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Jose Manuel Barroso, the incoming president of the European Commission, faces a spectacular showdown with Euro-MPs after defiantly resisting demands to reshuffle his team.
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Right-wing French President Nicolas Sarkozy was set to score a crushing victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday, despite a row over his plans for tax hikes that appeared to have rallied the left.
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A plan by French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy for a mini EU treaty was a welcome addition to the debate on the bloc's future, British European Affairs Minister Geoff Hoon said.
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Outgoing French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is due to be made head of President Jacques Chirac's governing UMP party on Sunday.
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PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy began a state visit to Morocco yesterday that will test how serious he is about pursuing one of his most intriguing foreign policy proposals: a Mediterranean Union inspired by the early European Common Market.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is touting British Prime Minister Tony Blair for a job as the first full-time European Union president, the Financial Times newspaper said Saturday.
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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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New French President Nicolas Sarkozy is  set to secure a big majority in parliament next month,  according to a poll for the Paris Match magazine released on  Wednesday.
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The French head back to the polls Sunday in a parliamentary election tipped to give right-wing President Nicolas Sarkozy the majority he needs to push through an ambitious reform programme.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged  European Union nations on Monday to accept a greater share of  defense spending to cope with escalating global threats.
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The conservative French President reaches across party lines in filling a key foreign-affairs post
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The European Union braced for a knife-edge vote to decide the fate of its new executive arm with incoming EU chief Jose Manuel Barroso hardening his stance against rebel legislators.
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European Union leaders headed for a showdown on Thursday over efforts to reform the bloc's creaking institutions, but chances of agreement appeared to rise after chief critic Poland softened its tone.
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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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France appeared on a collision course  with the European Union on Thursday after Brussels warned Paris  not to interfere with any foreign bids for Societe Generale in  the wake of its rogue trading losses.