Gaymard named to head Franceâs finances
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French President Jacques Chirac named Herve Gaymard as finance minister on Monday, putting a close ally in charge of the nationâs finances in the place of a key rival.
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Foreign Minister Nicolas Sarkozy says he will stand for the leadership of France's main governing party.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is due to be made head of President Chirac's governing party.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy resigned Monday in order to take over the leadership of the ruling center-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party, French TF1 television quoted government officials as saying.
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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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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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BusinessWeek Online - During his 13-year stint as the head of the International Monetary Fund, Michel Camdessus perfected the art of dressing down the world's budget-busters and fiscal profligates. Now it is the turn of Camdessus' native land, France, to come in for an earful of criticism. Charged by the French government five months ago to look into why France can't boost its economic growth rate, Camdessus delivered a withering critique of Gallic business as usual when he unveiled his report on Oct. 19. ...
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Outgoing French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is due to be made head of President Jacques Chirac's governing UMP party on Sunday.
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HervÃ© Gaymard, France&#39;s new finance minister, yesterday made his first move towards reducing the state&#39;s hefty budget deficit by selling almost half of the government&#39;s holding in Air France-KLM for a total of â¬682m ($906m).
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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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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.
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French Economy and Finance Minister Thierry Breton has said that the French state and other three European governments would participate in financing the A350 airliner programme.
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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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Gerard Mortier, currently the director of the Paris National Opera, will succeed Paul Kellogg, who leaves in May as general and artistic director.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be in the hotseat next week in Brussels where his plans to slow French momentum toward a balanced budget have unsettled some European partners.
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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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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Union chose Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday to head the International Monetary Fund, putting the former French finance minister in line to succeed Rodrigo de Rato in October.