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Bloomberg - 1 hour 41 minutes ago
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy won his bid to install an ally as the European Commission’s next financial-services regulator, fueling British concern that traders and hedge funds will face stricter rules.
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UPI - Tue Nov 24, 3:44 pm ET
PARIS, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy is pressing to re-inter the remains of Albert Camus, one of France's greatest 20th-century writers, in the Pantheon in Paris.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 11:09 pm ET
UN chief Ban Ki-moon and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are to fire early shots in a global climate debate to start in earnest next month by dominating a Commonwealth summit opening in Trinidad on Friday.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 6:50 am ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said they will seek an international tax on financial transactions with proceeds going to an environmental fund.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 6:20 pm ET
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in Brazil Thursday for a one-day meeting on climate change and Amazon forest conservation, hailed new US and Chinese proposals on combating global warming as "extremely encouraging."
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 4:35 pm ET
French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Brazil Thursday to urge nations straddling the Amazon basin to adopt tough measures to combat climate change and preserve rainforests.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 5:14 pm ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said they will propose an international tax on financial transactions with proceeds going to an environmental fund.
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INO News - Fri Nov 27, 2:10 am ET
(RTTNews) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has welcomed the new U.S. and Chinese proposals on combating global warming, calling them as "extremely encouraging" in making the Copenhagen Climate-Change summit a success.
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Showbiz Spy - Fri Nov 27, 4:25 am ET
CARLA Bruni-Sarkozy — the woman who’s married to French President Nicolas Sarkozy — is set to star in Woody Allen’s new film. The French First Lady has accepted Woody’s offer to appear in his as-yet untitled project, but admits she could be “completely useless”. Woody first approached Carla last year after he met the supermodel-turned-singer and told [...]
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INO News - Fri Nov 27, 7:27 am ET
(AP:PARIS) China said Friday that restored political contacts at the highest level with France means economic relations, which some feared could be hurt by recent diplomatic tensions, can improve.
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INDOlink - Thu Nov 26, 11:48 pm ET
Manaus (Brazil), Nov 27 (AFP) New US and Chinese proposals on combating global warming are "extremely encouraging" French President Nicolas Sarkozy said at a one-day climate change meeting here.
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Sun-Sentinel - Thu Nov 26, 7:49 am ET
PARIS (AP) — Georgia is very worried about the possible sale of French warships to Russia and intends to press the issue of security guarantees in France, the country's foreign minister said Thursday.
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San Jose Mercury News - Fri Nov 27, 11:35 am ET
RAMBOUILLET, France — Russian businesses and the government signed at least 25 agreements with French companies, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced Friday, proclaiming "a real breakthrough" in economic relations between the two nations.
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San Francisco Chronicle - Fri Nov 27, 5:09 am ET
French electricity giant EDF will join Russia's Gazprom in supporting the South Stream gas pipeline under the Black Sea, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Friday. The announcement came amid talks Putin is holding with French officials on expanding... Prime minister - Vladimir Putin - Russia - France - Business
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Time Magazine - Tue Nov 24, 3:39 am ET
French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to move Albert Camus' ashes to the famed PanthÉon in Paris as a way of revering the writer and philosopher. His critics, however, see more tactical motivations