Sarkozy appoints new French government, promises rapid reform
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, his new government in place and five years in power ahead of him, vowed Wednesday to carry out swiftly the &quot;daring&quot; reform programme that helped get him elected last month.
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France&#39;s energetic and outspoken finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, today took over the leadership of the country&#39;s ruling party, giving him a vehicle and platform to
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Nicolas Sarkozy, the new leader of France&#39;s ruling conservative party, has carved out a stellar political career that he unabashedly sees as one day -- and sooner rather than later -- making him French president.
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France's political scene changed dramatically when Nicolas Sarkozy, the ambitious finance minister, was formally named the new leader of the ruling conservative party -- widely seen as the start of his march to replace Jacques Chirac as French president in 2007.
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BUCHAREST Romania&#39;s new centrist government was sworn in on Wednesday and immediately set out to overhaul the tax system, fight corruption and boost investment in the country.
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France's finance minister announced new measures Tuesday designed to boost confidence, stimulate growth and tackle what he called the "scandalously high" jobless rate.
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Nicolas Sarkozy has been inaugurated as president of France. Will he lead the country in the right direction?
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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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PARIS, Nov 29  - Nicolas Sarkozy, an ambitious politician aiming to replace Jacques Chirac as French president, resigned as finance minister Monday to concentrate on his new job leading Chirac&#39;s conservative ruling party.
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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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France is set to elect a new National Assembly, with a big win predicted for President Nicolas Sarkozy's party.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy, aiming to push through his reform-driven renaissance of a morose France, looked set to win a powerful majority as the French voted in Sunday's runoff elections for parliament.
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Nicolas Sarkozy becomes the first French president to hold talks with the far-right's  Jean-Marie Le Pen in decades.
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Seeking to step out of President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s shadow, Prime Minister Francois Fillon on Tuesday promised to modernize France&#39;s institutions, in his first address to parliament.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy reshuffled his cabinet on Tuesday after losing a key minister in a parliamentary election and made former international lawyer Christine Lagarde France's first female economy minister.
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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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Frank-talking Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has revealed he will seek the French presidency, pledging to recharge the country by breaking with coveted job protections and better integrating disillusioned minorities.