Is Royal progressive enough for France?
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The women of France agree electing a  female president would be a giant step forward for a nation  which has treated career women poorly.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy appears to have won a mandate for change after his party swept first-round parliamentary elections, and he is picking up speed in his plans to overhaul France's welfare state. But rivals say he should watch out.
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How do you compete with mom, flag, and apple pie?That's the American version of the question facing France's conservatives, now that Segolene Royal has emerged as the Socialist Party's candidate for president ...Comment
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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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Reply by M. Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister, to a question in the National Assembly.
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Segolene Royal, the socialist politician widely tipped to be her party's candidate in next year's French presidential election, stressed the need for southern European countries to better fight illegal immigration as she met with centre-left counterparts in Spain.
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PARIS -- 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 secular society.
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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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Visiting French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said Friday that France is prepared to collaborate in the reconstruction of Iraq, but that country must advance towards the "political" solution of its ...
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The race opens this week for the prize of carrying the opposition Socialist Party (PS) banner in France's approaching elections, with the star of the opinion polls Segolene Royal well-positioned to pursue her bid to be the country's first woman president.
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France on Sunday held the deciding round of parliamentary elections expected to give right wing President Nicolas Sarkozy an overwhelming mandate for his ambitious reforms.
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Comment is free: Jonathan Freedland: Our progressive past can offer a new idea of what the state is for, and how it can help neighbourhood organisations to thrive.
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"I'm worried about the growing attacks that France is deploying against its European allies, against the Germans, the Luxembourgers, against all of the European countries."  France faces thinly concealed and growing frustration from Paris' European partners, irked at President Nicolas Sarkozy's strident position towards EU spending limits and attacks on the ECB. via Raw Story
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Analysis: Socialist Strauss-Kahn is a widely admired economic manager. Better to have him in Washington than heading up the opposition in Paris
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Presidential hopeful Segolene Royal launches a manifesto imbued with Socialist values.
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Comment on the German mainstream parties' latest electoral setback in two eastern states provides one of the main topics in today's European dailies. In France, President Jacques Chirac and three new-found allies earn brownie points.
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France's Socialists formally launched Segolene Royal's candidacy yesterday to compete in a fierce presidential race with high stakes for her and her party: Royal wants to be France's first female president and ...Comment