French minister takes helm of Chirac party
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Nicolas Sarkozy resigned as finance minister Monday, a day after accepting the leadership of France&#39;s conservative party and effectively becoming a rival to his old boss, President Jacques Chirac.
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PARIS -- President Nicolas Sarkozy sent a strong signal to France's disaffected minorities yesterday by appointing an outspoken advocate of Muslim women and a woman of Senegalese origin to his government -- among the country's most diverse ever.
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The conservative French President reaches across party lines in filling a key foreign-affairs post
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Gianfranco Fini, a right-wing leader who has turned his party from Neo-Fascist to mainstream conservative, was appointed Thursday as Italy's new foreign minister, a Cabinet minister said.
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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.Comment
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French President Jacques Chirac held a summit meeting with Italy's Romano Prodi, shoring up bilateral ties that had been strained under the prime minister's predecessor Silvio Berlusconi.
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The first round of voting in France's legislative elections has put the new president's party firmly on the road to controlling Parliament.
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France's popular, hard-driving finance minister -- moved a step closer to realizing his ambition to become the country's next president with his election as head of the ruling Union for a Popular Majority ...
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PARIS -- France's energetic and outspoken finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, took over the leadership of the country's ruling party yesterday, giving him a vehicle and platform to launch a presidential campaign in 2007 and setting up what is likely to be two years of intense political combat with the incumbent president, Jacques Chirac. Chirac, who turns 72 today, has hinted ...
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President Emile Lahoud on Thursday appointed staunch pro-Syrian politician Omar Karami to form the next government, replacing billionaire Rafik Hariri in a move that consolidates Syria&#39;s hold on Lebanese politics.
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French President Jacques Chirac has sent his foreign minister to the Middle East to try to win freedom for two journalists held in Iraq by militants demanding France end its ban on Muslim headscarves in ...
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The outgoing French finance minister has been confirmed as the new head of President Jacques Chirac&#39;s governing party. Nicolas Sarkozy, one of France&#39;s most popular politicians
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French President Jacques Chirac is welcomed by Romanian President Traian Basescu at the Cotroceni Palace, the Romanian Presidency headquarters, in Bucharest.Comment
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reshuffled key members of his government, naming as foreign minister the current head of Venezuela's state-owned oil company and handing the oil minister the helm of the company.
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French President Jacques Chirac named Herve Gaymard as finance minister on Monday, putting a close ally in charge of the nationâs finances in the place of a key rival.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy took over the ruling conservative party Sunday at a glitzy American-style congress that put him on course to launch a presidential bid and possibly challenge Jacques Chirac.
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French President Jacques Chirac named loyal ally Herve Gaymard as finance minister on Monday, tightening his grip over the economy after the departure of the ambitious and outspoken Nicolas Sarkozy.