France’s defending president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has promised supporters a "surprise" as Socialist rival Franois Hollande says he’s certain of nothing.
Franois Hollande has won France’s presidential election in a swing to the left at the heart of Europe that could start a pushback against austerity.
France has voted which could crown Francois Hollande its first Socialist president in two decades, marking a leftward shift at the heart of Europe.
Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande will clash in their only television debate, seen as the conservative incumbent’s last chance to turn the odds.
French presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande headed into the last round of his battle with Nicolas Sarkozy, with both candidates under threat.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has added her voice to calls to bolster the European Investment Bank and to use EU infrastructure funds more flexibly.
If Francois Hollande becomes president of France, it will be a job he has worked for and hankered after for most of his adult life.
Candidates are trading accusations after the opposition rejected Nicolas Sarkozy’s demand for three public debates before the final vote on May 6.
Nicolas Sarkozy is courting the far right to help him win France’s presidential runoff, but his socialist challenger will likely prevail regardless.
France has voted in round one of a presidential ballot where frustration at high unemployment may mean Nicolas Sarkozy loses his re-election bid.
The frontrunner in the French presidential election François Hollande wants to push the European Union to spend big money on growth and jobs.
French leader Nicolas Sarkozy says he will quit politics if he loses next month’s election as his challenger presses home on the incumbent’s record.
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/ 27 January 2012
Francois Hollande close to becoming France’s first Socialist president since Francois Mitterrand.
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/ 17 January 2012
Standard & Poor’s decision to lower France’s credit rating will help outsiders in the presidential election, making it bad news for Nicolas Sarkozy.
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/ 26 November 2007
A French judge ordered a manslaughter inquiry on Monday after the death of two teenagers in a crash with police sparked a night of rioting in a flashpoint Paris suburb. The violence was some of the worst since the nationwide riots in 2005, which erupted in similar circumstances, prompting President Nicolas Sarkozy to appeal for calm.
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/ 29 October 2007
Paris scrambled on Monday to contain a row sparked by a French charity’s bid to airlift more than 100 children out of Chad, a key ally for Europe’s peacekeeping strategy in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region. Chad President Idriss Déby Itno reacted furiously to the botched operation, even suggesting the charity planned to sell the children to paedophiles.
French newspapers mined the Watergate archive to describe the political ramifications of a share trading scandal enveloping Airbus parent Eads on Thursday, posing questions about ”Who knew what, and when?” Coverage of suspicions of ”massive” insider trading focused on the risk of instability at Europe’s largest aerospace and defence group.