France: Le Pen on Immigrants, Age and Elections
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, France's confrontational far-right leader, is getting ready to rock France in the upcoming presidential elections the way he did back in 2002. Will he succeed?
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French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy urges tough, EU-wide rules on dealing with illegal immigration.
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September 18, 2006 Has Socialism Started Retreating In Europe? Two weeks ago, I wrote about Nicolas Sarkozy's electoral strategy to run against the "60s mentality" in France and support market based reforms of ...
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F   atima     Gailani  is used to waiting. After living in exile for 24 years, working for her embattled country out of a suitcase, the 50-year-old Afghan has mastered the virtue of patience by never losing hope. Saturday's presidential election in Afghanistan is an important milestone along that journey, she explained, though she knows steep obstacles remain.
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If authorities try to send 7-year-old illegal immigrant Ikram Belhout back to Algeria, they&#039;ll have to get through Francine Le Cadre first. The 73-year-old retired social worker is among a swelling corps of volunteers resisting government efforts to step up deportations of immigrant families with children &amp;#151; including by hiding illegals from police if needed.
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Polls opened Sunday in the second round of France&#39;s parliamentary elections, with some 35 million registered voters choosing National Assembly deputies in the 467 constituencies where there was no winner in the first round a week ago.
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Les Indigenes shows how North African soldiers were marginalised French President Jacques Chirac has announced that the pensions of foreign soldiers who fought in the French army are to be brought into line ...Comment
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French President Jacques Chirac is expected to announce his retirement on Sunday, as the current favourite to replace him, Nicolas Sarkozy, continues to make waves on the issue of immigration.
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Polls show a tight three-way contest in France's presidential race, with a centrist former education minister just a few points behind the two established candidates.Comment
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An immigration bill, expected to pass, requires knowledge of French and proof of support.
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BRUSSELS -- An elder statesman of French literature who fought for the Resistance in World War II is gearing up to do battle again, in Brussels: Maurice Druon, 89, is campaigning to make French the supreme language of legal documents in the European Union.
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France has selected nearly 7,000 illegal   immigrants out of 30,000 applicants to benefit from a special   one-off measure granting them permanent residency, Interior   Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is  expected to win a huge parliamentary majority to help him push  through tax and labor reforms when voters cast ballots for the  fourth time in eight weeks in a run-off election on Sunday.
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France's main party of the Right, controlled for 28 years by President Jacques Chirac, passed into the hands of a new generation yesterday at a ceremony that bore more than a passing resemblance to a glitzy ...
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Rachida Dati, a self-made daughter of immigrants, triumphantly joined the Cabinet as the star symbol for the president's bid to make France value its diversity. But the hard-charging justice minister has lately hit some speed bumps.
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Exemplified by the Guardian's 'pen pal' campaign, Europeans are seeking a voice in the presidential election.
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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 ...