Le Pen struggles to find backers
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French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen says he is having problems getting endorsement to run for president.
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Exemplified by the Guardian's 'pen pal' campaign, Europeans are seeking a voice in the presidential election.
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PARIS -- Nicolas Sarkozy and S&#xE9;gol&#xE8;ne Royal, the front-runners in France's presidential race, rushed to beef up their campaigns yesterday against the rise of a centrist candidate.
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The flow of people between the campaigns and advocacy groups is alarming those who fought for tighter campaign finance rules.
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One of France's top presidential candidates asked mayors and other elected officials on Monday to give their backing to an extreme right-wing politician to ensure he has enough endorsements to run in the spring ...Comment
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Several thousand political contributors have donated to two or more presidential candidates this year, an overlap in giving that tilts decidedly to the Democrats.
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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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The French parliamentarian whose attempts to free two French hostages held in Iraq have provoked widespread official and media criticism hit back at attacks on his failed initiative.
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French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen defends his alleged comments on the Nazi occupation of France.
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More than half the citizens of the European Union back plans for a further enlargement of the 25-nation bloc, but support falls to just over one third in France and Germany, according
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French-speaking politicians see a better chance of claiming the top job in the country's upcoming election, but the favorites remain Flemish
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In a new book seen as a prelude to a presidential bid, France's finance minister is taking up the thorny question of how to reach out to an increasingly assertive Muslim minority and integrate it into a largely ...
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Israel's foreign minister tells France more action is needed in the fight to curb the rise in anti-Semitism.
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France's crusader of the far right, who rallied flag-waving followers at a National Front party congress Sunday, is making his sixth long-shot bid for France's presidency.Comment
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One of France's top presidential candidates asked mayors and other elected officials on Monday to give their backing to an extreme right-wing politician to ensure he has enough endorsements to run in the spring elections.
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The Senate Democrats' fund-raising committee, trying to regain a Senate majority, led its Republican counterpart in contributions last month but has far less in the bank as the election approaches.
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The conservative French President reaches across party lines in filling a key foreign-affairs post