French presidential frontrunner co-opts bloggers' conference
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French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy co-opted a European bloggers' conference in Paris to announce his plans to increase French investment in the Internet -- and to subject it to tougher regulations.
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The French once ignored the sex lives of their leaders. But Carla Bruni, the president's girlfriend, is now front page news
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Centrist Francois Bayrou has said he would stand for French president to offer an alternative to favourites Segolene Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's election.
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Now that Carla Bruni is his bride, Nicolas Sarkozy is focusing again on running France: endorsing a showcase super-fast train, promising to rescue steel workers threatened with layoffs and negotiating with labor leaders.
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France's popular president leads national day celebrations with several breaks with tradition.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, one of France&#39;s most ambitious and visible politicians - and an in-house rival of President Jacques Chirac - moved to the helm of the president&#39;s party yesterday, a perfect podium for him to bid for the
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CASTET, France: Francois Bayrou, leader of the center-right Union for French Democracy party, said Saturday that he will stand in France's spring presidential elections.Comment
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French centre-right presidential contender indicates he may lift a ban on wine advertising.
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Â· Special retirement terms for state workers targetedÂ· French president begins talks with unions today
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French socialist and popular favourite Segolene Royal Friday officially entered the race to be the country's next president, announcing that she is a candidate for her party's nomination.Comment
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French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has launched his fifth campaign for the presidency at a convention in the northern city of Lille.Comment
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One of France's top presidential candidates asked mayors and other elected officials on Monday to give their backing to an extreme right-wing politician to ensure he has enough endorsements to run in the spring elections.
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Presidential hopefuls starting to use blogs, social networking sites to advance their cause.
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Nicolas Sarkozy and his new flame Carla Bruni have transfixed the world's gossip press for weeks, but the jet-setting romance seems to have backfired among French voters worried their president is taking his eye off the job.
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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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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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PARIS -- France's energetic and outspoken finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, took over the leadership of the country's ruling party yesterday, giving him a vehicle and platform to launch a presidential campaign in 2007 and setting up what is likely to be two years of intense political combat with the incumbent president, Jacques Chirac. Chirac, who turns 72 today, has hinted ...