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21/05/2012 - France's new president

Pressure on French Socialists to win June parliamentary elections

Campaigning kicked off on Monday for French parliamentary elections which newly-elected President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party must win, if he is to deliver on his election promises.

19/05/2012 - France

Women’s Affairs Ministry returns to French politics

The Ministry of Women's Affairs is back in operation after being wound down in the 1980s.

18/05/2012 - France's new president

France's first South Korean-born minister takes charge of small businesses

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.

17/05/2012 - France's new president

New French government takes pay cut , fights for growth in Europe

France’s new, Socialist government held its first meeting Thursday with a pay cut for the president and ministers the first item on the agenda.

08/05/2012 - Analysis: France's new president

Can the US work with François Hollande?

The White House on Monday said that relations with France will be unaffected by the election of Socialist François Hollande as French president.

06/05/2012 - French presidential election campaign 2012

François Hollande elected president of France

François Hollande has been elected president of France with 51.9 per cent of the votes, according to exit polls, the first Socialist to hold the post since François Mitterrand in the ...

Presidential front-runner Francois Hollande, 1 May 2012
01/05/2012 - France

Workers and unions take centre stage in Hollande's May Day speech

Socialist candidate François Hollande used the occasion of International Workers Day on Tuesday 1 May to praise the trade union movement and celebrate his Socialist party’s record on ...

27/04/2012 - France

Angry police demonstrations put Sarkozy and Hollande on the spot

The shooting of a serial offender by a policeman near Paris on Saturday has become a presidential campaign issue after President Sarkozy called for a change in the law to allow the presumption of ...

Le candidat socialiste François Hollande (G) et Nicolas Sarkozy, le président sortant et candidat de l'UMP.
24/04/2012 - France

Sarkozy and Hollande set out to woo far-right Front National Le Pen voters

As campaigning continues ahead of the 6 May run-off for French president both candidates set out on Monday to court the more than six million people who voted for the far-right Front National ...

Socialists gear-up for run-off against Sarkozy
23/04/2012 - On-the-spot France

Socialists gear-up for run-off against Sarkozy

As predicted by the polls, François Hollande and the French Socialist Party won the first round of the presidential vote on Sunday.

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