Sarkozy declares presidential bid
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France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy announces his intention to run for the presidency next year.
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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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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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A look at French President Nicolas Sarkozy's positions on key issues:
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France's crusader of the far right, who rallied flag-waving followers at a National Front party congress Sunday, is making his sixth long-shot bid for France's presidency.Comment
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is  expected to win a huge parliamentary majority to help him push  through tax and labor reforms when voters cast ballots for the  fourth time in eight weeks in a run-off election on Sunday.
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Investor's Business Daily - Europe: France&#39;s Nicolas Sarkozy seems serious about the big changes -- &quot;la rupture&quot; -- he vowed to make if elected president. In his first foreign policy address, he was forceful, positive and rooted in Western values.
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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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Segolene Royal has officially launched her campaign to become France's first woman president at a congress of her Socialist Party as her main rival on the ruling right, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, struggled to mount a challenge.
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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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The conservative French President reaches across party lines in filling a key foreign-affairs post
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Segolene Royal on Sunday officially launched her campaign to become France's first woman president at a congress of her Socialist Party as her main rival on the ruling right, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, ...Comment
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday said his romance with Carla Bruni was "serious" and hinted that he was ready to marry the Italian ex-model and pop singer.
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French President Jacques Chirac has congratulated Nicolas Sarkozy on his nomination as president of his ruling party, Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
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The French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy fired the first serious shots yesterday in his campaign to become the next president when he presented a budget designed to show his capacity for both fiscal rigour ...
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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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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 21-year-old son is running for a post in local government as part of nationwide elections next month, the ruling conservative party said Wednesday.