France at odds with EU over SocGen
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France appeared on a collision course  with the European Union on Thursday after Brussels warned Paris  not to interfere with any foreign bids for Societe Generale in  the wake of its rogue trading losses.
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The European Commission faces a new crisis after it was revealed incoming French commissioner Jacques Barrot has a fraud conviction.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy'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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French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has called for &quot;clarification&quot; of the role of the European Central Bank, amid fierce debate in France on the high level of the euro.
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Embattled French bank Societe Generale faces fresh troubles Monday when a trial opens in Paris involving a vast money laundering scam between France and Israel.
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French bank Societe Generale is mulling a combination with bigger domestic rival BNP Paribas, a French newspaper said on Friday, in a deal which could create a French national champion in banking.
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European finance ministers clashed over Franco-German proposals to harmonise EU corporate taxes to prevent lower-cost member states grabbing too much of the investment pie.
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French transport commissioner Jacques Barrot is under pressure to explain to MEPs why he did not mention his involvement in a French political party funding scandal.
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In a vote which could have profound knock-on effects in both France and Europe, members of France's opposition Socialist party (PS) were being ballotted on whether to back the EU's proposed new constitution.
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A deeply discounted $8 billion rights  issue from Societe Generale, seen in part as a bid by the  scandal-hit French bank to remain independent, has not  convinced analysts that it will deter predators.
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Takeover talk swirled around Societe Generale bank on Friday, driving up its shares, with analysts expecting an all-French outcome to the rogue trader debacle.
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PARIS, Jan. 25 -- French political figures, shareholders and bank customers on Friday voiced growing criticism and skepticism of banking giant Societe Generale's explanations of one of the largest financial scams in history.
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Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Bank president, clashed publicly with Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday, warning the French president that he was violating European Union treaties by attempting to influence monetary policy and that his actions could backfire.
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PARIS/LONDON  - France warned foreign banks on Tuesday not to try to grab control of Societe Generale, as speculation of a takeover approach by rival BNP Paribas drove its shares more than 10 percent higher.
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Europe is rapidly becoming a dirty word in French politics as fears grow that France&#39;s influence in the European Union is waning.
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Societe Generale , the French bank reeling from a trading scandal, launched a rights issue at a steep discount on Monday to bolster its balance sheet after losses due to the U.S. subprime crisis.
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Speculation of a British bid for Societe  Generale, in the face of French opposition to a foreign  takeover, pushed shares in SocGen up sharply on Wednesday  nearly two weeks after it was plunged into a rogue trading  scandal.