Sarkozy wants business-friendly France
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Mesdames, Messieurs, France is now open for business. Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidency on pledges to open up the economy, and his government is selling one message: Things have changed.
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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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France's finance minister said he would use a visit to Berlin on Thursday to iron out "misunderstandings" over his interventions to protect French companies, which have irked German politicians and business leaders.
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"It's an excellent relationship"  He talks tough on Iran, likes President Bush and wants quotas on immigrants. And he's French.The frank-talking President Nicolas Sarkozy is out to puncture stereotypes about ivory tower French leaders as he makes his United Nations debut this week, laying out a new foreign policy that slides Paris closer to Washington on world hot spots.Sarkozy's differences with the United States _ over global warming, in particular _ may also make a mark at this year's U.N. General Assembly.American eyes will be on the conservative Sarkozy as much for his U.S.-friendly attitude as for his policies. It has been a long time since U.S. officials so eagerly awaited a French president, after the long chill under Iraq-war-opponent Jacques Chirac and decades of differences over issues from Middle East peace to European communism. Read more
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France&#39;s new President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed in a message here Saturday to strengthen dialogue between the European Union and oil-rich Gulf Arab states to make the best use of energy resources.
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French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy - a presidential front-runner  - proposes a "mini-treaty" to overhaul the EU.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, with a strong, if reduced, parliamentary majority in hand, plans to waste no time in rolling out his ambitious and contested programme of economic reforms.
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French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy urges tough, EU-wide rules on dealing with illegal immigration.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy is Thursday to unveil Phase II of his economic reform programme for France, outlining a road map to jolt the economy into higher gear before a congress of business leaders.
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French President Jacques Chirac called on the European Union Friday to help create &quot;industrial champions&quot; within the 25-nation bloc that would be competitive on the global economic stage.
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French President Jacques Chirac called on the European Union to help create "industrial champions" within the 25-nation bloc that would be competitive on the global economic stage.
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France's President Sarkozy calls for taxes to hit polluters and for French use of pesticides to be halved.
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Claude Gueant, the chief of staff of  French President Nicolas Sarkozy, reiterated on Sunday that  France preferred any bid for domestic bank Societe Generale   to be a French one rather than a foreign one.
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PARIS -- By tomorrow, President Nicolas Sarkozy will probably be one of Europe's most powerful leaders. With the government, Parliament, and top state bodies under his conservative camp's control, he should face little political resistance as he seeks to reshape France.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a visit to his ancestral homeland of Hungary on Friday as part of a bid to improve ties with central Europe.
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"Much will depend on this region, for instance Europe's capability for economic development"  French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday stressed France's interest in ties with central Europe after talks with his Hungarian counterpart Laszlo Solyom in Budapest, Hungary's MTI News Agency reported. via Xinhuanet
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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.