French premier says France will conform to EU deficit rules in 2005
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PARIS  - France's public deficit will drop by about &#36;12 billion US in 2005 to conform with European Union rules, the French premier said in an interview.
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France and Germany&#39;s bruising dispute with Brussels over their big budget deficits is expected to be suspended next week after both countries claimed they would comply with EU rules in 2005.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged on Friday to press ahead with plans to overhaul ties with NATO and launch a Mediterranean Union in 2008, shrugging off criticism of his foreign policy since he took office.
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France's president unveils new economic reforms in a  command performance, but skeptics say he's short on detail
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is touting British Prime Minister Tony Blair for a job as the first full-time European Union president, the Financial Times newspaper said Saturday.
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In his first and only budget as France's finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy promised that economic growth and a freeze on spending will bring France back within the EU's deficit limits in 2005 for the first time in four years.
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French Socialist party leader Francois Hollande on Monday said his separation from Segolene Royal was a private matter that has no political consequences.
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Economic growth in both France and the 12-nation eurozone is likely to be close to 2.5 percent for 2006, the governor of the French central bank said.
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Seeking to step out of President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s shadow, Prime Minister Francois Fillon on Tuesday promised to modernize France&#39;s institutions, in his first address to parliament.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday he wants to use his country's upcoming presidency of the European Union to thrash out an agreement on changing the fishing quotas system.
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France has unveiled a budget for 2005 which should bring its deficit back under European Union (EU) limits for the first time in four years.
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French President Jacques Chirac says Turkey can join the EU as a member if it meets entry requirements.
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French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy urges tough, EU-wide rules on dealing with illegal immigration.
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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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With half the European Union countries exceeding public deficit limits this year, the EU&#39;s head office bowed to reality Friday and proposed to be more flexible in how it enforces the budget rules underpinning the euro.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday gave the post of prime minister to fellow conservative Francois Fillon, who promised to carry out Sarkozy's sweeping program for change
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French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy unveils a budget promising to bring the deficit under control.