France-Africa ties 'must change'
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France and Africa must remould their relationship and change their ways, French minister Nicolas Sarkozy says.
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France's involvement in Ivory Coast receives sceptical scrutiny in several papers.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard  Kouchner, on his first visit to Africa, called on Friday for  more development aid to help curb emigration and threw his  support behind a peace process in war-divided Ivory Coast.
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French-American relations are set to shift as France chooses a successor to President Jacques Chirac, who has defined himself on the world stage as an opponent of American dominance.
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The row continues in France over president Sarkozy meeting the Libyan leader. Especially after defense executives vowed to boost the country's arms exports
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Friday that his country will not tolerate the wave of African migrants that continue to risk their lives to enter Europe illegally.
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France's Jacques Chirac calls for a fairer international order based on a strengthened United Nations.
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A summit intended to strengthen ties between Africa and former colonial power France opened on Thursday but all eyes will be on a subject not on the agenda -- Sudan's battered Darfur province.Comment
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France has raised the possibility of rejoining NATO&#39;s military command after a 40-year absence, signalling what could be one of the biggest foreign policy changes in decades.
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Comment is free: Pankaj Mishra:  France's shrinking power drives the president to talk of a new civilisation, but risks exposing a habit of intellectual deception
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Letting Africans save Africa has become an operating objective for world diplomats. But that&#39;s been difficult for one former colonial power, France.
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Francophone heads of state are urging Ivory Coast&#39;s warring parties to renounce violence and strictly abide by a French-brokered peace accord meant to return stability to the divided nation.
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Sudanese President Omar Al-Beshir. An Africa-France summit seen as President Jacques Chirac's goodbye to Africa is drawing to a close after a shaky agreement was signed to prevent violence in Darfur from ...Comment
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin makes a surprise call for democratic reform in Tunisia.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s visit  to Poland on Thursday could tip the balance in persuading its  eurosceptic conservative leaders not to veto talks on a new  European Union treaty.
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France called for a new start to  relations with the United States on Wednesday after a long  chill over the Iraq war and said the countries' leaders should  talk more often.
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French President Jacques Chirac wants to change his country&#39;s constitution to allow for a referendum on Turkey&#39;s bid to join the European Union.