Damaging new claims have emerged about the funding of Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign and his links with slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
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.
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel appears to be getting support on the fiscal compact, but is left increasingly isolated over Greece.
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/ 27 January 2012
Francois Hollande close to becoming France’s first Socialist president since Francois Mitterrand.
Human Rights Watch have slated French police for allegedly singling out black and Arab men for random checks as part of a new crime fighting policy.
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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.
European leaders were confronted this week by the ugly prospect of a second recession in three years.
A lack of confidence among investors in the prospects for the eurozone has pushed the value of the euro down against the US dollar and the yen.
As a clear damp dawn rose over Brussels on December 9, the tired and tetchy leaders of Europe emerged bleary-eyed.
Europe, South Africa’s dominant trading partner, could drag our growth down with it, writes <b>Sharda Naidoo</b>.
A European summit deal to strengthen budget discipline in the eurozone failed to restore financial confidence, forcing the ECB to step in again.
Europe has divided in a historic rift with a majority of countries led by Germany and France moving ahead with a treaty, leaving Britain isolated.
A confidential paper, circulated by European Council president Herman Van Rompuy, proposes empowering the commission to impose austerity measures.
France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany’s Angela Merkel are preparing to centralise control of EU members’ budgets in order to rein in their debt crisis.
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/ 5 December 2011
Hopes are high that European leaders may finally agree on a plan to address the continent’s debt crisis at a make-or-break gathering on Friday.
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/ 29 November 2011
EU leaders are working to bolster a bailout fund to help prevent contagion in bond markets, amid growing US pressure to staunch the debt crisis.
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/ 24 November 2011
A French blogger has become an internet hit by needling the rich and powerful with knitted dolls in sly recreations of the news.
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/ 17 November 2011
Italian clothes company Benetton has pulled a photo montage showing the pope kissing a leading imam from its new global ad campaign, Unhate.
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/ 9 November 2011
Italian borrowing costs reached breaking point after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s insistence on elections instead of an interim government.
The eurozone won verbal support but no new money at a G20 summit for its tortured efforts to overcome a sovereign debt crisis.
The French president was hoping to be hailed at the G20 summit as the saviour of the euro.
Germany and France have issued Greece with an ultimatum that will see it receive no more aid until it decides on whether it will stay in the eurozone.
European leaders summoned Greece’s prime minister to the French Riviera to restore calm ahead of a G20 summit after his shock call for a vote.
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/ 24 October 2011
World markets rose and the euro rallied as investors reacted to the weekend’s EU summit, where "good progress" on the sovereign debt crisis was made.
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/ 22 October 2011
Europe has piled pressure on banks to write off vast Greek debts as leaders struggle to come up with a lasting answer for its credit crisis.
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/ 14 October 2011
Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have drawn up a package to counter debt crisis — but refuse to reveal details.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says Europe must "have resolved its problems" by the time G20 leaders meet in November.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will thrash out differences with French President Nicolas Sarkozy over how to use the eurozone’s financial fire power.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has held talks in Paris with President Nicolas Sarkozy on a crunch weekend for the European debt crisis.
A lawyer says he helped arrange milllion-dollar "kickbacks" for French leaders in exchange for turning a blind eye "to abuses of power in Africa".
African leaders gave former French president Jacques Chirac briefcases full of cash, notably to finance election campaigns, a former aide has alleged.
Angela Merkel has opposed eurobonds, which would pool the 17 eurozone nations’ debt, but left the door open to a change in policy at a later date.