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French ponder Sunday poll choice

Saturday, May 5th, 2012

French President Nicolas Sarkozy spends the day with his family and his challenger Francois Hollande visits a market a day before the crucial second round.

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French vote ‘too close to call’

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

French President Nicolas Sarkozy believes Sunday’s presidential election run-off against Francois Hollande will be decided by the tightest margin.

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French vote ‘too close to call’

French rivals to face off at last

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Nicolas Sarkozy faces his last chance to swing the French election when he meets Socialist favourite Francois Hollande in their only debate.

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Sarkozy Re-election Bid in Trouble

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

Nicolas Sarkozy could be the first one-term French president since 1981, with the first round of voting scheduled for Sunday.

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VIDEO: France arrests 19 in dawn raids

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Police in France have arrested 19 suspected Islamist militants and seized weapons in a series of dawn raids, President Nicolas Sarkozy says.

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Sarkozy bars militant preachers

Monday, March 26th, 2012

Nicolas Sarkozy plans to clamp down on militant Muslim preachers entering France, as the country’s presidential election looms.

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Sarkozy bars militant preachers

France ‘has too many foreigners’

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

French President Nicholas Sarkozy says there are too many foreigners in France, and defends his plan to halve new arrivals if he is re-elected.

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France ‘has too many foreigners’

Afghans Blast French Pullout Plan

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

Say Sarkozy putting presidential campaign first.

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Afghans Blast French Pullout Plan

France’s Treasury Chief Works to Guard Credit Rating

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

As President Nicolas Sarkozy heads into a tough re-election fight, he is increasingly relying on Ramon Fernandez, a civil servant few people outside France have ever heard of.

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Sarkozy and Merkel meet on euro

Monday, December 5th, 2011

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are to meet to unveil proposals intended to stem the eurozone debt crisis.

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Sarkozy called Israeli PM ‘liar’

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu a “liar” in remarks to US President Barack Obama overheard by journalists.

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Sarkozy meeting IMF chief on debt

Saturday, October 8th, 2011

French President Nicolas Sarkozy begins a weekend of talks on the eurozone debt crisis by meeting IMF chief Christine Lagarde in Paris.

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Cameron and Sarkozy in Tripoli, Libya, to Meet New Leaders

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Libya on Thursday to join President Nicolas Sarkozy of France in a joint visit to the country’s rebel leaders.

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Sarkozy offers Gaddafi ‘options’

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

French President Nicolas Sarkozy tells journalists at the G8 summit in France that “all options are open” if Libya’s leader steps down quickly.

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Opinion: Veil ban turns right into crime

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

The ban imposed by French President Sarkozy on wearing a face-covering veil, or niqab, is simply dangerous gesture politics, representing little more than pandering to the far right in France.

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