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PARIS (AP) — Pieces of old Paris from a lamp post to a park bench go on the auction block next week, with the piece de resistance 40 iron steps from the Eiffel Tower, all 7.8 meters (25.6 feet) of them.
PARIS -(Dow Jones)- French President Nicolas Sarkozy Friday welcomed the Greek government's steps to address concerns over the country's budget deficit.
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.
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.
(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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
