Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin won a seat in French Senate...
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Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin won a seat in French Senate elections today, a post that could be useful if persistent rumours that his days as government chief are numbered prove true.
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France voted on Sunday in a parliamentary election that is expected to give an overwhelming majority to conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy for his program of tax and labor reform.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin declared Sunday that &quot;France will be extremely severe against those who perpetrate anti-semitism,&quot; after visiting the Jewish social
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ISLAMABAD, AUGUST 19: Pakistani Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz won a seat in Parliament, clearing the way for him to take over as PM next week, officials said today.
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QUEBEC (CP) - As Premier Jean Charest prepares for a trip to Mexico with French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, at least one federalist insists the trip will weaken Canada and its image on the international stage.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said that two French journalists kidnapped south of Baghdad nearly three months ago were thought to be in a fairly safe zone in Iraq ( news - web sites ), based on ...
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PARIS: France's 2005 budget will cut the public deficit by about 10 billion euros and push it below the European Union's 3 percent ceiling, Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said in an interview to be ...
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said that Libya is an interlocutor that can't be missed and should find its place in the "concert of Nations" as well as in the region.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament as expected on Wednesday, but faces a much more difficult task in the Senate, where he no longer has a majority.
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French voters are electing a new parliament, with President Sarkozy's UMP party expected to make gains.
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Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin insisted France would achieve growth of its gross domestic product (GDP) of 2.5 percent next year despite poor results in the third quarter of 2004, in an interview to be ...
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Italian prime minister wins chamber of deputies backing but faces closer decision in senate
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Italian PM Romano Prodi wins a vote of confidence in parliament but his coalition looks set to fall in the Senate.
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PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling party won a majority in parliamentary runoff elections yesterday , but Socialists -- contrary to all poll predictions -- gained more seats than they had held in the previous assembly, foreshadowing tough battles ahead for the new government's proposals.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s right-wing party won an absolute majority in the French parliament on Sunday, taking 314 out of 577 seats in the National Assembly, official results showed.
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LAHORE, Pakistan: August 19, 2004 (PNS) - Current Federal Finance Minister, Mr. Shaukat Aziz won by-election on his way to officially becoming Prime Minister of Pakistan. As a member of ruling Muslim League and finance minister he is credited with ...
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is resigning when he meets today with Prime Minister Jean- Pierre Raffarin, freeing him to use his new position as head of the ruling party to prepare for the 2007 presidential elections.