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Nasdaq - Fri Dec 11, 7:02 am ET
PARIS -(Dow Jones)- French President Nicolas Sarkozy Friday welcomed the Greek government's steps to address concerns over the country's budget deficit.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 7:38 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- A strike at Paris’s major museums to protest against planned job cuts waned as most of them opened their doors today. The Louvre , the world’s most visited museum, and Versailles Palace, the former residence of French kings, opened, although much later than regular opening hours.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 11, 9:16 am ET
In the midst of negotiating about climate change, banking bonuses and Iran at a European Union summit, French President Nicolas Sarkozy snuck in a phone call to check on the most French of living icons — ailing rocker Johnny Hallyday.
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Nasdaq - Fri Dec 11, 8:32 am ET
(Adds quotes.) BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- French President Nicolas Sarkozy Friday said European Union leaders will push for a 30% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 at the United Nations-sponsored climate-change summit in Copenhagen.
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Nasdaq - Fri Dec 11, 7:47 am ET
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- French President Nicolas Sarkozy Friday said a planned tax on bank bonuses is an extraordinary measure rather than a permanent one, but he didn't rule out taxing them again.
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Nasdaq - Fri Dec 11, 5:17 am ET
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday said they want the European Union to cut emissions 30% from 1990 levels over the next decade.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 5:00 pm ET
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday he would not let his country's literary heritage be taken away by a "friendly" large American company, in a thinly veiled challenge to Google
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Chicago Tribune - Fri Dec 11, 11:14 am ET
Steps from the Eiffel Tower and a piece of glass from the Louvre pyramid are among the 300-plus items being auctioned Monday in the "Paris Mon Amour" event.
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NPR - Thu Dec 10, 6:52 am ET
French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants his country to take the lead in the fight against global warming. He is pushing through a radical and unpopular plan to tax individual households according to their carbon footprint. But the new measure has many seeing red, not green.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 9:17 pm ET
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Thursday other leaders to impose a tax on bankers' bonuses, in a united front amid tensions between London and Paris.
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Market Watch - Thu Dec 10, 7:55 am ET
France may be the next country to introduce a one-time tax on banker bonuses as French President Nicolas Sarkozy joined U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown in calling for a global response to what many view as excessive pay.
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Fox News - Fri Dec 11, 4:14 pm ET
A tax on banking could be used to pay for combating climate change under plans pushed by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy Friday.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 11:17 am ET
Amman - King Abdullah II of Jordan left Amman on Tuesday to hold talks in Paris with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the latest Middle East developments, the royal court said. No further details were given, but diplomats in Amman believed the pre...
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Bloomberg - Fri Dec 11, 1:05 am ET
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy is considering a tax on 2009 banker bonuses exceeding 27,000 euros ($39,800), following the U.K. government’s introduction of a similar levy, said two French government officials.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 10, 1:32 pm ET
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are in complete agreement on moves to tax bankers' bonuses, Brown's spokesman said on Thursday after the two leaders met.