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A video capturing former French prime minister Francois Fillon saying he will be a candidate in the next presidential election "no matter what" has caused a stir in France's political right. Share article Fillon's statement came days after his ...

4:21pm GMT PARIS (Reuters) - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy made his first public comments on Monday over allegations he duped the country's richest woman to raise election funds, saying he had never betrayed his public duties and pledging ...

Tags: Investigation, Elections, France MOSCOW, March 22 - RAPSI. Former President of France Nicholas Sarkozy has been placed under investigation over claims that he took advantage of L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt in 2007 and accepted illegal ...

By Nicholas Vinocur FLORANGE, France (Reuters) - Steelworkers here cheered Francois Hollande in early 2012 when, as a presidential candidate, he vowed to protect them from a plan to close two blast furnaces. Now they've they erected a marble ...

PARIS In a blitz of interviews with French media, Bruni said a formal investigation of the ex-president opened last week for allegedly exploiting the mental frailty of 90-year-old L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt was causing her great pain. "It's ...

By (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande called on Thursday for an economic government for the euro zone with its own budget, the right to borrow, a harmonised tax system and a full-time president.At a 150-minute news conference marking his ...

ABOUT this time last year during the election campaign in France, François Hollande, the Socialist presidential candidate against Nicholas Sarkozy, was in the habit of repeating before TV cameras his favourite phrase Oh, how I hate the rich!; this ...

It's the last thing French President François Hollande needs. Just as he's trying to impose budgetary discipline on his countrymen, his chief tax enforcer has admitted to hiding €600,000 ($770,000) in an offshore bank account. Budget Minister ...

Yesterday, the Federal Register released a list of all the gifts that foreign leaders gave President Obama in 2011. His haul included a basketball signed by the Toronto Raptors (from the Canadian prime minister), more than a dozen Brazilian soccer ...