Royal's proposals earn applause, sneers in France
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French commentators gave a mixed response on Monday to Segolene Royal's 100 proposals for her presidential bid, saying the plans targeted both Socialist and more conservative voters, but lacked detail on financing.
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France&#39;s interior minister called it &quot;scandalous.&quot; Le Figaro called it ridiculous. But whatever you choose to call it, on Monday, four days after the police at Roissy-Charles
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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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Paris -- The tone was a stark contrast to years of rancor. &quot;Dear George,&quot; began the congratulatory letter faxed to the White House Wednesday by French President Jacques Chirac, President Bush&#39;s most bitter critic in Europe.
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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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Whether because of his public love life or his economic policies, French voters seem to be souring on their new president
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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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LONDON  - Queen Elizabeth has booked a gala performance of the blockbuster musical Les Miserables at Windsor Castle next month to entertain French President Jacques Chirac, who will be in Britain to mark the centenary of an Anglo-French friendship treaty.
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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 Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal is shaking up her campaign team to boost her ratings.
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Leading presidential hopeful Segolene Royal described France's controversial 35-hour work week -- one of the shortest in Europe -- as a major step forward, adding that any revisions to the law must be negotiated with unions.
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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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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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PARIS, Jun 20 (IPS) - In his successful bid to lead the country this past  spring, French President Nicolas Sarkozy made reform of the  country's immigration system a centrepiece of his campaign,  at one point telling a news conference that France was  "exasperated by the dispute about national identity and by  uncontrolled immigration."
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PARIS -- French Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal, attempting to rejuvenate a faltering bid to become the country's first female president, announced a 100-point platform yesterday that includes sending juvenile delinquents to military-style boot camps and providing free contraceptives to women younger than 25. Royal billed the two-hour speech, delivered before an estimated 15,000 party members but aimed at a ...
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The conservative French President reaches across party lines in filling a key foreign-affairs post
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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