03/11/2011 | Argentina

Obama praises CFK while greeting Sarkozy

Prior to the lunch inaugurating the G20 summit in Cannes, during an informal chat, US President Barack Obama, recommended that his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, follow the example set by Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who was re-elected in a landslide win just ten days ago.

13/09/2011 | Argentina

France: CFK signs agreement for the return of the MotoGP tourney to Argentina

President Cristina Fernández kicked off the second day of her three-day visit to Paris with the inauguration of a photographic exhibition about the Dakar Rally editions in Argentina at the countries’ Embassy in the French capital today.

14/09/2011 | Argentina

Sarkozy praises Argentina's growth after meeting with CFK

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner met today with her counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on the third and last day of her official visit to France. Sarkozy praised Argentina's economic development and CFK's leading role in Latin America.

24/10/2011 | Argentina

World leaders congratulate CFK

Phone calls and official statements have been pouring in since yesterday when Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became not only first women to run Argentina, but also the first one to do it twice. World leaders rushed to congratulate her and show support for her second term.

07/08/2011 | Argentina

Sarkozy thanks CFK for 'outstanding' work in Salta double murder case

French President Nicolas Sarkozy called President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Sunday in order to “personally thank her for the outstanding job” carried out by local authorities in the investigation of the murder of two French tourists in Salta.

11/09/2011 | Argentina

CFK travels to France to meet with Sarkozy

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner travelled to France accompanied by Foreign Minister, Héctor Timerman. The official visit will begin its planned activities on Monday. The President is to meet with her French pair, Nicolas Sarkozy, on Wednesday, news sources informed.

12/09/2011 | Argentina

CFK meets with Salta victim father in Paris

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is in France for a three day official visit to the country. CFK´s first official meeting was a gathering with Jean Michel Bouvier, father o Cassandra Bouvier, a French tourist brutally murdered in Salta.

14/05/2012 | World

Hollande to be sworn in as new French president

Francois Hollande will be sworn in as France's first Socialist president in 17 years in a hurried ceremony on Tuesday before a dash to Berlin to challenge German Chancellor Angela Merkel's focus on austerity policies.

15/05/2012 | World

Hollande sworn in as French president, calls for European pact for growth

Francois Hollande was sworn in as France's first Socialist president in 17 years in a brief ceremony today. In his inaugural speech, he said he would seek to amend a European pact to add growth-boosting measures to deficit-cutting policies that critics say are dampening the bloc's growth prospects.

03/07/2012 | World

Police raids Sarkozy’s office, home in campaign finance probe

Police raided the home and offices of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy today as part of a judicial inquiry into financial relations between his political camp and the richest woman in France, L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt.

05/05/2012 | World

France readies for poll, Sarkozy closes on Hollande

Campaigning ended on Saturday in France for a decisive second-round presidential vote expected to crown Francois Hollande the country's first Socialist leader in two decades despite polls showing President Nicolas Sarkozy clawing back some ground.

06/05/2012 | World

Socialist Hollande ousts Sarkozy as French leader

Socialist Francois Hollande swept to victory in France's presidential election on Sunday in a swing to the left at the heart of Europe that could start a pushback against German-led austerity.

07/05/2012 | World

Sarkozy seeks party unity after French defeat

Outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged his divided conservative UMP party to pull together quickly after his election defeat to fight off a double challenge from the left and far-right in parliamentary polls next month.

29/04/2012 | World

Sarkozy on defensive in bitter final election battle

French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for tougher borders and a stronger national identity on Sunday and accused the left of petty slander as he struggled to catch up with his Socialist rival a week before a presidential runoff.

01/05/2012 | World

French presidential rivals in last ditch TV debate

Nicolas Sarkozy faces Francois Hollande in a "moment of truth" television debate that could be the French president's last chance to avoid defeat at the hands of his socialist challenger in Sunday's election runoff.

02/05/2012 | World

Sarkozy, Hollande trade barbs in TV debate

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist challenger Francois Hollande clashed in their only televised debate, seen as the conservative incumbent's last chance to turn the odds of re-election in his favour.

24/04/2012 | World

French presidential rivals race to seduce Le Pen voters

France's presidential rivals scrambled to seduce nearly a fifth of the electorate that voted for far right anti-immigration crusader Marine Le Pen, voicing sympathy for voters' distress in the economic crisis.

24/04/2012 | World

Hollande: ‘Merkel ran Europe along with Sarkozy and we can see the results’

French presidential candidate for the Socialist bloc François Hollande defended his intention to “re-guide” Europe by criticizing the results of the vision applied until now by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and current French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

26/04/2012 | World

Le Pen says waiting for Sarkozy's answers before endorsing

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has promised to give her view on the second round at the National Front's traditional "Joan of Arc" May Day rally, and she urged President Nicolas Sarkozy to make his own position clearer concerning parliamentary polls in June.

20/04/2012 | World

French election rivals in final race for workers

Socialist presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande appealed to French voters to throw out conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and shun the far right in a final push for working-class votes before Sunday's first round of the election.

21/04/2012 | World

French voters protest in Paris on eve of election

French voters voiced disillusionment on Saturday at a campaign that many said ignored the country's real problems, on the eve of a first-round vote expected to send President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist rival Francois Hollande to a runoff next month.

23/04/2012 | World

Sarkozy woos far right after Hollande wins round one

President Nicolas Sarkozy hammered home pledges to get tough on immigration and security as he sought to win over record numbers of far-right voters and whittle down Socialist Francois Hollande's narrow first-round election lead.

12/03/2012 | World

Sarkozy blasts accusation he took money from Gaddafi

France's Nicolas Sarkozy angrily denied receiving money from deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to fund his first presidential run in 2007, as one news website reported earlier in the day.

22/03/2012 | World

Sarkozy announces crackdown on Internet hate sites

President Nicolas Sarkozy said today that France would make it a crime to consult Web sites that advocate terrorism or hate crimes and would toughen a crackdown on people who went abroad for ideological indoctrination

12/04/2012 | World

Obama, Sarkozy discuss oil market conditions

US President Barack Obama discussed conditions on world oil markets during a video conference today with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the White House said.

09/03/2012 | World

Sarkozy says Greek problem solved

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that Greece's debt crisis had been solved after Athens
won strong acceptance from private creditors for a bond swap deal.

09/03/2012 | World

Poll: Sarkozy least popular leader in Europe

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is the least liked of Europe's top five leaders, a poll showed today, confirming the scale of the challenge facing the conservative candidate weeks ahead of his bid for re-election.

11/03/2012 | World

France's Sarkozy 'sorry' for tomato attack

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has apologized in person to a policewoman who said she was the victim of a tomato attack involving the president's teenage son, a police official said on Sunday.

15/02/2012 | World

Sarkozy launches presidential election campaign

President Nicolas Sarkozy formally declared his candidacy for a second term seeking to overturn a wide poll lag with promises to get the unemployed back to work and use referendums to consult the French people on reforms.

17/02/2012 | World

France, Britain agree drone cooperation

France and Britain agreed to jointly work to develop next-generation unmanned drones as part of their military cooperation as their leaders reconciled after an acrimonious clash over Europe last year.

02/03/2012 | World

France to shut Syria embassy, awaits UN mandate to act

President Nicolas Sarkozy said today that France would shut its Syrian embassy due to the repression of opposition to President Bashar al-Assad and was ready to step up its support of rebels if the United Nations can give a green light.

29/01/2012 | World

Sarkozy details measures for growth, jobs

President Nicolas Sarkozy used a primetime television interview to flesh out a flurry of measures to boost employment and competitiveness which he hopes to rush through France's parliament before a presidential election in April.

30/01/2012 | World

EU leaders agree rescue fund, 25 join fiscal pact

European leaders agreed on a permanent rescue fund for the euro zone and 25 of the 27 EU states backed a German-inspired pact for stricter budget discipline, but they struggled to reconcile fiscal austerity with economic growth.

06/02/2012 | World

Merkel, Sarkozy press Greece as another bailout deadline slips

The leaders of France and Germany told Greece time was running out in talks on a broad debt restructuring deal and Athens would only get bailout money from Europe if it lived up to its promise to deliver economic reforms in return.

31/12/2011 | World

Sarkozy vows reforms in austere New Year's speech

French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged in a grave New Year's message to find ways to pull the economy out of stagnation in the four months left before a presidential election and vowed no further public spending cuts.

09/01/2012 | World

Merkel, Sarkozy press for quick Greek solution

Germany and France warned Greece it will get no more bailout funds until it agrees with creditor banks on a bond swap and pressed for an early deal to avert a potential default in the euro zone's most debt-stricken nation.

20/01/2012 | World

Sarkozy: ‘Time running out for Iran diplomacy’

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said today that Iran's leaders must be forced to negotiate over the country's uranium enrichment programme because time was running out to avoid a military intervention.

05/12/2011 | World

Sarkozy, Merkel outline euro zone master plan after key meeting

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met in Paris today to align their positions on centralizing control of euro zone budgets to stem a debt crisis that threatens Europe's currency union.

07/12/2011 | World

Germany pours cold water on EU summit hopes

Pessimistic comments from EU paymaster Germany and new figures exposing deepening stress among Europe's banks dented financial market hopes of a turning point in the euro zone's debt crisis at a summit this week.

12/12/2011 | World

Sarkozy: French AAA rating loss would be surmountable

A loss of France's AAA credit rating would add to the country's difficulties but would not be insurmountable, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a interview published today.

22/11/2011 | World

Strauss-Kahn sues media and Sarkozy aide

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was tipped as France's next president before a US sex assault scandal spelled his downfall, is suing a top French newspaper, several magazines and a government adviser over reports about him.

24/11/2011 | World

Sarkozy, Merkel agree to stop sniping on ECB crisis

France and Germany agreed today to stop arguing in public over whether the European Central Bank should do more to rescue the euro zone from a deepening sovereign debt crisis.

02/12/2011 | World

Cameron meets Sarkozy, questions need for treaty change

Britain is not convinced that the EU treaty needs changing to tackle the euro zone debt crisis, Prime Minister David Cameron said, after discussing plans for tougher governance in the bloc with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

12/11/2011 | World

Sarkozy, Merkel urge Greek PM to respect pledges

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday telephoned Greece's new prime minister, Lucas Papademos, to urge him to respect and fully carry out all Greece's reform commitments, the French government said.

16/11/2011 | World

Obama kisses Chávez in Benetton ad campaign

Italian store Benetton launched its new ad campaign with photo montages showing the Pope kissing the imam of Cairo's al-Azhar, Ahmed el Tayeb, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez also kissing his US counterpart Barack Obama in the name of the fight “against hate.”

16/11/2011 | World

France, Germany clash over ECB crisis role

France and Germany, Europe's two central powers, clashed over whether the European Central Bank should intervene more forcefully to halt the euro zone's accelerating debt crisis after modest bond purchases failed to calm markets.

03/11/2011 | World

Bill Gates urges G20 to live up to aid promises

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates told G20 leaders today to protect aid budgets, saying cuts would not only hurt the poor but also undermine innovations in areas such as health and farming.

03/11/2011 | World

Sarkozy praises Argentina, Brazil for support of tax on financial transactions

French president Nicolas Sarkozy assured that both Brazil and Argentina said they were in favour of taxing financial transactions, although they admitted that several countries in the regional bloc strongly oppose it. 

08/11/2011 | World

Reports say Sarkozy told Obama 'Netanyahu is a liar'

According to reporters, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told US President Barack Obama last week he was fed up with dealing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and considered him a liar.

01/11/2011 | World

Sarkozy, Merkel to speak later today

French President Nicolas Sarkozy will call German Chancellor Angela Merkel today after Greece's decision to hold a referendum on a 130 billion euro ($180 billion) bailout, the French president's office said.

01/11/2011 | World

Sarkozy, Merkel 'determined' to save Greek bailout plan

Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy are “determined” to implement the EU bailout plan for Greece. That was the outcome of an emergency phone call between the two chiefs of state ahead of a G20 summit tomorrow.

02/11/2011 | World

Germany urges Greece to stick to the agreed aid plan

Germany's finance minister and other senior officials urged Greece today to stick to the aid plan agreed with the euro zone and IMF and to avoid the dangerous instability posed by the prospect of a referendum on the latest bailout deal.

26/10/2011 | World

German parliament gives green light to Merkel ahead of key summit

German Chancellor Angel Merkel won a parliamentary vote with a large majority today on boosting the firepower of the euro zone rescue fund, handing her a strong mandate to negotiate at a crunch EU summit later in the day in Brussels.

27/10/2011 | World

Euro leaders strike historic economic deal to save zone

The eurozone sealed a grand deal to overcome its festering debt crisis today when banks agreed to take a 50 percent loss on Greek debt. Eurozone officials announced the deal following tough talks in Brussels between leaders of the eurozone and the Institute of International Finance banking lobby to force the private sector to share the pain of Greece's debt burden.

27/10/2011 | World

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23/10/2011 | World

Sarkozy yields on ECB crisis role, pressure on Italy

European Union leaders made some progress towards a strategy to fight the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis, nearing agreement on bank recapitalisation and on how to leverage their rescue fund to try to stop bond market contagion.

24/10/2011 | World

UK's Cameron faces party rebellion over Europe

Prime Minister David Cameron faced the biggest rebellion of his premiership on Monday with dozens of his own party members in parliament set to back calls for a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union.

25/10/2011 | World

ECB row, Italy flare on eve of euro rescue summit

A flare-up over the European Central Bank and political turmoil in Italy kept the euro zone on edge on the eve of a summit meant to confront the currency bloc's worsening sovereign debt crisis.

20/10/2011 | World

Sarkozy, Merkel rejoice Libya’s liberation

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said today the death of Muammar Gaddafi turned a page for the Libyan people and signaled the start of a democratic process.

21/10/2011 | World

Merkel rebuffs Sarkozy on euro zone solution

France's push to use more European Central Bank money to fight the euro zone debt crisis has run into strong resistance from Germany and other EU partners, leaving Paris increasingly isolated before a crucial summit.

23/10/2011 | World

EU leaders press Italy for reform at crisis summit

European Union leaders piled pressure on Italy today to speed up economic reforms to avoid a Greece-style meltdown as they began a crucial two-leg summit called to rescue the euro zone from a deepening sovereign debt crisis.

08/10/2011 | World

Europe eyes bolstering banks ahead of debt storm

European banks may need more than 100 billion euros (US$135 billion) to withstand the sovereign debt crisis, Ireland estimated, ahead of a meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to work out how to recapitalise the lenders.

19/10/2011 | World

Bruni gives birth to baby girl

French first lady Carla Bruni gave birth to a baby girl, French media reported, her first child with husband President Nicolas Sarkozy and the first baby born to a French presidential couple in office.

19/10/2011 | World

Sarkozy says euro zone talks stuck on bailout fund

Plans to tackle the euro zone debt crisis have stalled with Paris and Berlin at odds over how to increase the firepower of the region's bailout fund, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said

01/09/2011 | World

World powers, new Libya leaders map out rebuilding

Leaders of the Libyan uprising that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi met with world powers in Paris to map out the country's rebuilding, 42 years to the day after the former strongman seized power in a coup.

15/09/2011 | World

Cameron, in Tripoli, says UK will help hunt Gaddafi

Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron flew in to Tripoli under heavy guard today, to be welcomed by the new leaders the French and British air forces helped install in Libya, three weeks after rebel forces overthrew Muammar Gaddafi.

21/09/2011 | World

Sarkozy proposes one-year Mideast peace map

French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed in the United Nations today give the Palestinians status as an observer state while setting out a roadmap for peace within one year.

In a speech to the UN General Assembly, Sarkozy warned that a UN Security Council

24/08/2011 | World

France, partners working on new Libya UN resolution

France and its partners at the United Nations are working on a draft resolution that would enable Libyan assets to be unfrozen and sanctions to be unlocked, a French diplomatic source said.

24/08/2011 | World

Syrian forces raid eastern towns, EU may embargo oil

Syrian forces killed one person and arrested dozens in raids on an eastern tribal region today as part of a crackdown on dissent which could lead to European Union oil sanctions on Damascus as early as next week.

31/08/2011 | World

Sarkozy's office denies report of L’Oreal heiress cash

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office denied allegations published in the daily Liberation on Wednesday that he was handed cash by L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt for his 2007 election campaign.

04/07/2011 | World

French left: Strauss-Kahn election bid ‘unlikely’

France's Socialist Party said today that it was unlikely that Dominique Strauss-Kahn would be a candidate for the 2012 presidential election, despite the weakening of the sex assault case against him in New York.

12/07/2011 | World

France to withdraw 1,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said during a visit to Afghanistan today that France would pull out 1,000 troops by the end of 2012, as it speeds up its withdrawal alongside the United States. In a surprise five-hour trip, Sarkozy met Afghan President Hamid Karzai, had a working lunch with General David Petraeus, the top US commander in the country, and visited French troops in the region of Surobi, east of Kabul.

11/08/2011 | World

Sarkozy, Merkel to discuss eurozone and debt crisis in Paris on Tuesday

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will discuss next Tuesday how to make the euro zone work more effectively amid persistent doubts in financial markets over Europe's ability to solve its sovereign debt crisis.

29/06/2011 | World

French journalists freed after 18 months of captivity in Afghanistan

Two French journalists held hostage in Afghanistan for a year and a half have been freed, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said.

29/06/2011 | World

Francois Baroin to replace Lagarde as finance minister in France

Francois Baroin, France's budget minister and government spokesman, was named finance minister, replacing Christine Lagarde who is leaving to be the new head of the International Monetary Fund.

01/07/2011 | World

Strauss-Kahn twist could change France’s electoral scene

News that the sex assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn could collapse hit France like a thunderbolt today, raising prospects of his return to French politics, though probably not to the 2012 presidential race.

23/06/2011 | World

France says to start gradual Afghan withdrawal

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he would follow the United States in starting a gradual troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, a move that could shore up his popularity before a 2012 election.

24/06/2011 | World

US House targets Libya war, Sarkozy defends operation

France rejected today US criticism of Europe's performance in the NATO operation against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as the US Congress expressed its unease by voting down further funding.

27/06/2011 | World

French banks agree to roll over Greek debt, key week for bailout

French banks have agreed to roll over holdings of Greek debt for 30 years, President Nicolas Sarkozy said, as the Greek government fought to persuade backbench rebels to back a crucial austerity plan to avert bankruptcy.

26/05/2011 | World

Sarkozy says Mladic arrest brings Serbia nearer EU

French President Nicolas Sarkozy applauded Serbia's arrest of top warcrimes suspect Ratko Mladic, calling it a courageous move that brought Serbia a step closer to future EU integration.

27/05/2011 | World

G8 Leaders pledge initial US$20 billion to back Arab Spring

Group of Eight leaders promised US$20 billion in aid to Tunisia and Egypt today and held out the prospect of billions more to foster the Arab Spring and the new democracies emerging from popular uprisings.

23/06/2011 | World

G20 agrees farm deal, soft on regulation

G20 farm ministers agreed measures today to tackle high food prices in a deal that steered clear of divisive details and paved the way to greater international cooperation on sensitive agricultural issues.

27/03/2011 | World

Sarkozy squeezed by left and right in French polls

The opposition Socialist Party comprehensively won French local elections as the far-right National Front surged, between them pressuring President Nicolas Sarkozy a year before he faces the electorate.

31/03/2011 | World

France calls for world nuclear reforms after Japan crisis

French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for a reform of global nuclear standards by the end of the year during a first visit by a foreign leader toJapan since the earthquake and tsunami that triggered its atomic disaster.

20/04/2011 | World

France promises Libyan rebels it will intensify air strikes

In Paris, President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged stronger military action at his first meeting with the leader of the opposition Libyan National Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the Elysee presidential office said in a statement.

08/01/2011 | World

Two French hostages killed in Niger, Gov't source

Two French hostages kidnapped in Niger have been found dead, a government source in the African country said. The pair were abducted from a bar overnight hundreds of kilometres from the lawless desert where Islamist militants, rebels and bandits flourish.

27/01/2011 | World

Sarkozy says he, Merkel will never abandon euro

Sarkozy spoke as financial executives attending the Davos forum voiced cautious optimism that the euro zone's debt crisis could be resolved without contagion spreading to Spain or investors being forced to take unbearable losses.

19/03/2011 | World

World leaders take action in Libya

French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that French airplanes have been sent out to Benghazi, inducing the no-fly zone to prevent an attack by Gaddafi, while British Prime Minister David Cameron announced "the time is now" to take action.

26/09/2011 | Latin America

Lula meets with Sarkozy in Paris before receiving distinction

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met this morning French President Nicolas Sarkozy before heading to the Political Science Institute in Paris where he is going to become the first Latin American leader to become doctor Honoris Causa at the Institute.

30/06/2011 | Multimedia

Sarkozy suffers aggresion during handshake tour