Sarkozy to assert French influence in address to ambassadors
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President Nicolas Sarkozy is to outline a more assertive role for France on the world stage when he delivers on Monday his first major address on foreign policy since taking office.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to Poland on Thursday could tip the balance in persuading its eurosceptic conservative leaders not to veto talks on a new European Union treaty.
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The French president sees support for plans that would group nations as diverse as Libya and Spain
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged on Friday to press ahead with plans to overhaul ties with NATO and launch a Mediterranean Union in 2008, shrugging off criticism of his foreign policy since he took office.
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Israel's foreign minister on Monday asked France to use its influence in the Arab world to help promote better relations between Israel and Persian Gulf and North African nations.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy dispatched an envoy to Ankara last weekend to try to calm tensions over his adamant opposition to Turkey entering the European Union, Le Figaro newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday that aerospace group EADS would take centre stage at July 16&#39;s Franco-German summit at Airbus headquarters in Toulouse.
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The Queen will host French President Nicolas Sarkozy for a state visit next year, Buckingham Palace says.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday called for a clear timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq as he outlined an assertive role for France in other world hotspots.
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French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy addresses party activists shortly as he begins his bid for the presidency.
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Come Monday, President Nicolas Sarkozy will likely be one of Europe's most powerful leaders. With the government, parliament and top state bodies under his conservative camp's control, he should face little political resistance as he seeks to reshape France.
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New French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Friday to build on economic momentum in France and push ahead with reforms after unemployment in the country fell to a 25-year low in May.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy looked set to gain a resounding mandate for his programme of reforms Monday, after round one of legislative elections delivered a large majority for his right-wing political party.
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Â· French president headed for showdown in Brussels  Â· He will demand greater political control over euro
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza  Rice will visit France starting on Sunday to meet new President  Nicolas Sarkozy in a trip experts said would signal a recovery  in bilateral ties that frayed over the Iraq war.
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PARIS -- By tomorrow, President Nicolas Sarkozy will probably be one of Europe's most powerful leaders. With the government, Parliament, and top state bodies under his conservative camp's control, he should face little political resistance as he seeks to reshape France.
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Presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy, France's most unabashedly pro-American politician, sets off Saturday on a four-day visit to the United States &#151; something of a political gamble at home, where pockets of anger still simmer about Washington's foreign policy.