EU treaty adoption puts France 'back in Europe': Sarkozy
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President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday hailed the French parliament's adoption of the European Union's new reform treaty as a "success" that restores the country to its rightful place in 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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French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday championed the idea of a &quot;simplified treaty&quot; for the European Union, which European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said was gaining support.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday he and British Prime Minister Tony Blair had struck a deal on reforming the EU's institutions while Germany reported progress towards a treaty.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday European Union leaders might be able to overcome Polish threats of a veto and agree at a bloc summit next week on the drawing up of a new EU treaty.
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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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Sharp differences appeared Wednesday between Germany and France after Chancellor Angela Merkel dismissed calls by French President Nicolas Sarkozy for a brake on the euro&#39;s rising value.
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Nicolas Sarkozy reiterates his opposition to Turkey joining the EU, for the first time since becoming French president.
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He first threatened and then charmed, but either way French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy drew little support for his plans to harmonize corporate taxes in the European Union during a tour of new member ...
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President Nicolas  Sarkozy said on Tuesday that France would veto any World Trade  Organization (WTO) agreement that did not satisfy its  requirements on farming.
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French President Sarkozy moves to prevent friction over Turkey's EU membership bid.
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French lawmakers, mending wounds left by a national referendum that helped bury the proposed European Union constitution in 2005, voted Thursday to ratify a slimmed-down treaty meant to get the EU moving again.
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The French parliament backs a constitutional change at a special congress to get the EU reform treaty ratified.
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France's rightwing presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy called for the European Union to adopt more protectionist policies in order to defend its interests against competition from emerging economies.
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Europe has emerged from its two-year institutional crisis by endorsing a new reform treaty, Portuguese prime minister Jose Socrates said Friday.
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The French parliament ratified a European  Union reform treaty to overhaul the bloc's institutions on  Friday, nearly three years after France rejected a planned EU  constitution in a referendum.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy urged Britain to play an integral role in the European Union's push for economic reform.