A French Style of Capitalism Is Now Stained
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SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale, the French bank that earned the respect of it rivals, is now embarrassed by a rogue trader.
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Business & money: A new and virulent form of fraud threatens to defeat governments' efforts to combat it and pushing annual tax losses up by billions of euros
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One by one, several French writers and intellectuals are making the startling confessions. After decades as committed leftists, they are defecting to the right &#151; many saying they've lost faith in Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal.
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Europe is rapidly becoming a dirty word in French politics as fears grow that France&#39;s influence in the European Union is waning.
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Societe Generale is in crisis, France's economy minister said on Tuesday of the bank hit by losses piled up by a rogue trader, questions over its leadership, takeover speculation and a falling stock price.
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Rumors are rife in France that the beleaguered bank Soci&#201;t&#201; G&#201;n&#201;rale will be acquired by a hostile rival
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The French fizzy water in the green bottle is in trouble. Perrier, a source of domestic pride and one of the world's best-known brands, is caught in a labor dispute that smacks of a culture clash between old-world France against the New World Order.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy has sprinkled the parched French economy with dozens of little enticements since his election in May, all paving the way for an assault on the crux of France's woes: the labor laws.
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France braced for protests after 'brutal' clean-up.
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Yoshiaki Murakami has become a lightening rod for public ire at JapanÂs tilt toward American-style capitalism.
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From the Siemens bribery investigation to the prosecution of illicit conduct at Volkswagen, the German business world is undergoing a painful national cleansing process.
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Because of the fashion virus, the richly diverse commercial Paris of former times is fast disappearing.
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SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale, the French bank that earned the respect of it rivals, is now embarrassed by a 31-year-old rogue trader.
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BORDEAUX, France  - French winemakers are disappointed that President Nicolas Sarkozy is teetotal and fear his clean-living image gives the wrong impression of France.
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When the leading left-wing tabloid sells a sizable stake to a Rothschild heir, you know things are getting desperate for France&#39;s newspaper industry.
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Â· Cosmetic giant fined for recruitment campaign Â· First big French firm to be convicted of racial bias
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Popular former French finance and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has taken over the leadership of his country&#39;s conservative ruling party in a move that could change the face of French politics.