New French finance minister named
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Nicolas Sarkozy has resigned as France&#39;s finance and economy minister to concentrate on his new job leading the ruling UMP party of President Jacques Chirac.
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France's agriculture minister, Herv&#195;&#169; Gaymard, will replace Nicolas Sarkozy as finance and economy minister following the latter's resignation to take up the helm of the governing UMP party, officials said.
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The U.S. Treasury on Thursday named a new deputy assistant secretary for domestic finance whose job includes helping manage debt financing and monitoring activities of dealers who buy and sell the debt.
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The U.S. Treasury on Thursday named  a new deputy assistant secretary for domestic finance whose job  includes helping manage debt financing and monitoring  activities of dealers who buy and sell the debt.
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French President Jacques Chirac named Agriculture Minister Herve Gaymard as his third finance chief this year, charging him with reviving an economy plagued by unemployment of almost 10 percent.
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BOGOTA -- Colombia's president quickly named a new foreign minister yesterday , hours after Maria Consuelo Araujo resigned amid a growing scandal linking the political establishment and far-right paramilitaries.
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French Agriculture Minister Herve Gaymard is to succeed Nicolas Sarkozy as finance minister, a government official said Monday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Gaymard&#39;s appointment
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Romania's Prime Minister designate Calin Tariceanu will name historian Razvan Ungureanu, 36, as his foreign minister and economist Ionut Popescu, 40, as finance minister, a party official said Sunday.
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Former French finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the EU's candidate to head the International Monetary Fund.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said  he wants Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former finance minister and  member of the opposition Socialist party, to be the next head  of the International Monetary Fund.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he wants Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former finance minister and member of the opposition Socialist Party, to be the next head of the International Monetary Fund.
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Gianfranco Fini, a right-wing leader who turned his party from Neo-Fascist to mainstream conservative, was appointed Thursday as Italy's new foreign minister, a Cabinet minister said.
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Herve Gaymard, farm minister and loyal backer of French President Jacques Chirac, takes over the finance ministry from Nicolas Sarkozy.
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THE French president promoted a staunch ally to replace a popular finance minister, strengthening his hand ahead of an expected struggle for the governing party&#39;s 2007 presidential nomination.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 10 (IPS) - The European Union's finance ministers have  decided that Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn should head the  International Monetary Fund (IMF), despite calls for the post to  be opened up to candidates from poor countries.
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"Clearly Sarkozy is setting the economic agenda"  She's French. She's female. And she is causing quite a stir. Christine Lagarde, the first woman finance minister for a G-8 nation, was rated the best minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government last month by one of France's top-selling newspapers. Not bad for a political newcomer who only two years ago was unknown outside legal and business circles, and who is vocally pro-market in a capitalism-wary nation.It hasn't always been this easy.In 1980s Paris, a law firm in the French capital told the young female applicant her sex disqualified her from high office. So Lagarde turned to Chicago-based law firm Baker &amp; McKenzie, where she went on to become the firm's first female director in 1999. Read more
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France's new Foreign Minister wants to bring a fresh sense of social justice to global politics