Rise of Sarkozy Marks Change in French Political Landscape
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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.
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France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy steps up his bid for the presidency with a speech to young activists.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy won a solid majority for political and economic reforms in parliamentary polls on Monday, but the defeat of a top minister in a late Socialist surge soured the right's celebrations.
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French voters went back to the polls Sunday for parliamentary elections expected to give conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy an overwhelming mandate for ambitious reforms aimed at modernizing France.
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President Nicholas Sarkozy might have  just got re-married, but his love affair with the French  electorate appears well and truly over.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday shook up his cabinet, putting a woman in charge of the French economy for the first time and naming a new government number two, after his party lost seats in parliamentary elections.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's early days have been a masterwork of policy and public relations, but his real challenges lie ahead
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PARIS -- France's energetic and outspoken finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, took over the leadership of the country's ruling party yesterday, giving him a vehicle and platform to launch a presidential campaign in 2007 and setting up what is likely to be two years of intense political combat with the incumbent president, Jacques Chirac. Chirac, who turns 72 today, has hinted ...
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France is the country that produced the Enlightenment, but in the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy, thinking has lost its cachet.
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French conservatives looked set to sweep parliamentary elections on Sunday and hand President Nicolas Sarkozy the strong mandate he had sought for the wide-ranging reforms he says are needed to revive the economy.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy looked set to win a sweeping mandate for his ambitious programme of reforms Sunday, as French voters went back to the polls to elect a new National Assembly, the lower chamber of parliament.
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Nicolas Sarkozy has been inaugurated as president of France. Will he lead the country in the right direction?
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Voting began in the first round of  France&#39;s legislative election on Sunday with President Nicolas  Sarkozy&#39;s conservative UMP party expected to strengthen its  hold on power.
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France votes in the first round of  parliamentary elections on Sunday with President Nicolas  Sarkozy&#39;s party expected to strengthen its hold on power,  clearing the way for him to push ahead with reforms.
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French centre-right presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy sets out his foreign policy vision.
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A financial scandal prompts a resurgence of antipathy to the unrestrained profit motive that President Sarkozy had championed
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France is set to elect a new National Assembly, with a big win predicted for President Nicolas Sarkozy's party.