France's Royal shifts up a gear with manifesto launch
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France's Socialist champion Segolene Royal has shifted up an election gear, drawing to a close the &quot;listening phase&quot; of her campaign and finally spelling out what she plans to do if elected the country's first woman president in May.
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President of France Jacques Chirac is this week the Queen - s guest at Windsor Castle.
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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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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has taken one step closer to a bid for the presidency, taking the helm of President Jacques Chirac&#39;s party.
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French centrist Francois Bayrou launched his new party's parliamentary campaign on Thursday with a major Paris rally, and renewed his attacks on President Nicolas Sarkozy's close ties to the country's media moguls.
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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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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, with a strong, if reduced, parliamentary majority in hand, plans to waste no time in rolling out his ambitious and contested programme of economic reforms.
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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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France's Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal is shaking up her campaign team to boost her ratings.
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Yves Saint Laurent has its eye on the power player: the CEO, the politician, the man in charge.
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She lost an election. Now S&#201;gol&#200;ne Royal has shed a mate. In France the marital exploits of the nation's pols are becoming fair game
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French presidential hopefuls Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal are both selling themselves as something new for France and both have seasoned advertising executives to help them do it.
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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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PARIS -- The day after S&#xE9;gol&#xE8;ne Royal, the French Socialist presidential candidate, unveiled an ambitious election platform that would add billions of euros to government spending, her campaign said yesterday it needed a little more time to figure out who would pay for it.
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French presidential hopefuls Nicolas  Sarkozy and Segolene Royal are both selling themselves as  something new for France and both have seasoned advertising  executives to help them do it.
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Socialist Segolene Royal, seeking to  revive her flagging campaign to become next French president,  said on Monday she was facing more attacks over her competence  than a man would have to.
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France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy steps up his bid for the presidency with a speech to young activists.