President Francois Hollande has named 38-year-old technocrat Fleur Pellerin as France's first South Korean-born minister, in charge of small and medium-sized businesses and the digital economy.
In France, as in many other countries around the world, the name you receive at birth is the one you are stuck with all your life and it’s very difficult to change it.
One of the hot issues ahead of Sunday's final round in the French presidential election is whether to give non-European Union citizens living in France the right to vote in French local elections ...
28/04/2012
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Report: French presidential election 2012
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday complained that he was the victim of a “Stalinist trial” amid criticism of an alleged rightward turn in his campaign to be reelected.
European Union president Herman Van Rompuy has warned of a rise of “populism” and “extremism” across the continent in the aftermath of the Front National’s 18 per ...
Greece has been faced with growing numbers of illegal immigrants for several years. In the past the routes passed through the small islands in front of Turkey.
Socialist François Hollande and President Nicolas Sarkozy will face-off in the second round of the presidential election in two week’s time, but attention on Monday was focused on the ...
23/04/2012
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Analysis: French presidential election 2012
Despite being the first sitting French president ever to take only second place in the first round of the elections, Nicolas Sarkozy appeared more combative and determined than ever when he made ...
