French agriculture minister to take finance portfolio from Sarkozy
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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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France may follow Germany in imposing restrictions on a strain of genetically-modified corn made by the US giant Monsanto, Ecology Minister Alan Juppe was quoted Friday as saying.
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PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday promised a green revolution, unveiling a mix of tax measures and investment pledges that he said would put France in the vanguard of the war against global warming.
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A close ally of President Jacques Chirac was appointed Monday to head France&#39;s powerful Finance Ministry, in a signal the French President has no intention of serving as lame duck
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French Finance Minister Nicholas Sarkozy is to reveal his budget for next year on Wednesday.
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PARIS In a move that could change the face of French politics, Nicolas Sarkozy, the popular finance minister whose personal and ideological differences with President Jacques Chirac are well known, took over the helm of the governing center-right party on
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Prime minister loses third agriculture minister in four months.
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The outgoing French finance minister has been confirmed as the new head of President Jacques Chirac&#39;s governing party. Nicolas Sarkozy, one of France&#39;s most popular politicians
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Conservative French President Nicolas Sarkozy was expected to bolster his parliamentary support on Sunday in an election that is crucial for his wide-ranging reform plans.
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In his first and only budget as France's finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy promised that economic growth and a freeze on spending will bring France back within the EU's deficit limits in 2005 for the first time in four years.
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The new head of the ruling political party in France has resigned his post as finance minister, one day after taking over the party.
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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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Nicolas Sarkozy resigned as finance minister Monday, a day after accepting the leadership of France's conservative party and effectively becoming a rival to his old boss, President Jacques Chirac.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday gave the post of prime minister to fellow conservative Francois Fillon, who promised to carry out Sarkozy's sweeping program for change
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Creating a defence and aerospace industrial champion centered on France may be impossible for Nicolas Sarkozy to engineer during his last days as finance minister, as political considerations cloud the ...
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Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said he will run in France's presidential elections next year, according to comments posted Wednesday on the Web site of the newspaper Liberation.Comment
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Nicolas Sarkozy lifted the veil Wednesday on what is likely to be his last major sell-off as France&#39;s finance minister - the partial privatization of the state-owned nuclear group Areva SA.