Blunders Beset France's Socialist Party
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PARIS, Jan. 31 -- It was an unseemly and unusual lovers' spat -- in public, on camera, over tax policy.
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Socialist champion Segolene Royal's flagging campaign for the French presidency was in fresh trouble after her party's economics chief resigned amid a row over the cost of her election promises.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s right wing party was headed for a landslide victory that would hand him a sweeping mandate to reform France, after the first round of parliamentary elections on Sunday.
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Societe Generale faces growing embarrassment after it emerged the French bank was warned last year about the suspect activities of Jerome Kerviel and its key fraud accusation against the 31-year-old trader collapsed.
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France was hit by transport chaos Thurday as unions challenged President Nicolas Sarkozy with a 24-hour strike, but the government vowed to stick by plans to overhaul pensions for hundreds of thousands in the public sector.
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PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling party won a majority in parliamentary runoff elections yesterday , but Socialists -- contrary to all poll predictions -- gained more seats than they had held in the previous assembly, foreshadowing tough battles ahead for the new government's proposals.
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France faced transport disruptions on  Saturday in some regions and a limited underground service in  Paris as a nationwide strike over pensions tailed off.
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Defeated French Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal announced she had split from partner and party leader Francois Hollande, in a book to be published this week.
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After a plummet in the polls, the once-hot  Socialist candidate tries to rejuvenate her campaign for the French presidency with an appeal to her base
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Segolene Royal, the frontrunner in polls to become the next president of France, kicked the campaign against her main rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, into high gear.
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French bank Societe Generale has lost $10bn, the bulk of which was lost through fraud by a trader.
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France's economy minister said Societe Generale, reeling from losses blamed on a rogue trader, is a bank in crisis and may need to ditch its chairman.
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The opposition party in France, the Socialist Party, held a vote amongst its delegates on the EuropeanUnion (EU) Constitution, which resulted in a 55 percent &quot;yes&quot; vote.
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France's Societe Generale says fraud was hidden using "sophisticated and varied techniques."
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LA ROCHELLE, France  - A story of love and rivalry   is spicing up the French Socialists' presidential race, with   revealing photos and bedroom gossip fanning the campaign.
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French Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal came under criticism for rolling out a 100-point programme that failed to spell out how it would be paid for.
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A story of love and rivalry  is spicing up the French Socialists' presidential race, with  revealing photos and bedroom gossip fanning the campaign.