French jobless figure thwarts PM
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Unemployment has risen slightly in France, despite the efforts of the French government to bring it under control.
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Unemployment in France has reached a 25-year low - dropping 0.9% in May to 2.2 million, the government says.
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PARIS : French President Jacques Chirac slammed a private initiative to secure the release of two French hostages in Iraq as &quot;interference&quot;, while the freelance effort appeared to have flopped.
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A French tax official cheated the government out of 600,000 euros (407,000 pounds) by creating a phantom identity as a university professor and claiming a salary for some 15 years, the government said on Monday.
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For the first time ever, France was without either of its two financial daily newspapers Monday as staff at Les Echos and La Tribune staged strikes over the acquisitions strategy of billionaire Bernard Arnault.
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Airbus' major restructuring strategy includes 10,000 job cuts, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Tuesday, adding that his government will oppose any cutbacks in the form of layoffs.Comment
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The French prime minister defended thousands of job cuts at Airbus on Thursday, but protests over the losses at the planemaker silenced three German plants in a backlash that could threaten recovery hopes.
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Le Pen, Le Cracked A cyber crook has stolen sensitive data from Jean-Marie Le Pen, a far-right contender for president of France. The breach may kill his chances of being able to run for the office.â¦
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The leader of French industry has accused the prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, of surrendering to trade union power after a humiliating government climbdown removed key elements of a law that would have ...
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The French unemployment rate fell to 8.9 percent of the workforce in July, its lowest reading since March 2002, from 9.0 percent in June, the employment ministry reported.
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The French government Sunday scrambled to develop a response to kidnappers who grabbed two French journalists in Iraq, demanding Paris revoke a law banning Islamic head scarves in public schools. There was no sign France would capitulate.
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Former French PM Alain Juppe launches an appeal against a corruption conviction which has barred him from active politics.
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French railway and energy workers kept up  the pressure on President Jacques Chirac's government on  Wednesday with strikes over working conditions that severely  reduced train traffic and curbed electricity output.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy has sprinkled the parched French economy with dozens of little enticements since his election in May, all paving the way for an assault on the crux of France's woes: the labor laws.
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Business & money: French desperate to keep bank out of foreign hands
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The French president tries to defuse a row over a failed attempt to free two journalists held in Iraq.
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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."