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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
France's President Francois Hollande on Tuesday called for UN protection for "liberated zones" under opposition control in Syria. Hollande also told the UN General Assembly that France would recognize an opposition government when it is formed. The...
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Reuters
| 9 months ago
News Analysis & Opinion Related Topics France's President Francois Hollande delivers a speech during the inauguration of the new Shoah memorial in Drancy, a Paris suburb, September 21, 2012. President Francois Hollande's move to leave French shale...
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Qatar English Daily
| 9 months ago
France's Socialist government will let Qatar invest millions of euros to foster business creation in depressed suburbs. Plans for a ¤50m fund to stimulate economic activity in urban suburbs proved divisive when they were first floated last year,...
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Fox
| 9 months ago
FoxNews.com France is set to ban the words "mother" and "father" from all official documents under new plans to legalize gay marriage and give equal adoption rights to homosexual and heterosexual couples. Under the proposed law, only the word "...
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Euractiv
| 9 months ago
French coalition rift widens over EU budget pact Published 25 September 2012 While the pact is set to pass with votes from Hollande's Socialists and from the right, the Greens' move is the most open defiance of Hollande's authority yet from within...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 9 months ago
Crude oil prices fell Monday on concerns about the eurozone debt crisis and weakening global economic growth despite a recent round of central bank stimulus. New York's benchmark contract, West Texas Intermediate crude for November, fell 96 cents...
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Canadian Free Press
| 9 months ago
Will American voters take note of the message from France when they go to the polls to deal with Barack Obama and his socialist dodos?...In May of 2012, voters in France exacerbated that nation's financial crisis by electing a die-hard socialist to...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
Growth stagnation and high unemployment has led the approval rating of French President Francois Hollande to hit a new record low in September, just four months after he took office, according to a new opinion poll.
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 9 months ago
Socialist President Francois Hollande, faced with rising unemployment and a spate of high-profile factory closures, is seeking ways to introduce more flexibility into the French labor market. Many of Mr. Hollande's predecessors, including the...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
Francois Hollande rapidly losing post-election glow 23 September 2012 Last updated at 16:43 ET In France, polls suggest that fewer than half of voters are happy with President Francois Hollande after just four months in office, with a drop of 11...
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The Observer
| 9 months ago
The survey found only 43% of French voters were happy with the Socialist president. The drop of 11 percentage points is one of the worst for a leader in more than 50 years since the start of the fifth republic. The poll by the Ifop organisation for...
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Reuters
| 9 months ago
News Analysis & Opinion Related Topics France's President Francois Hollande adjusts his glasses after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, September 20, 2012. French President Francois Hollande's approval ratings have tumbled to their lowest...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Marine Le Pen, leader of the right-wing French nationalist Front National, says the country should ban both Muslim headscarves and Jewish skullcaps. In an interview with the newspaper Le Monde, Le Pen suggested the ban is a measure increasing "...
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The Independent
| 9 months ago
News in pictures Ostensibly, they met to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a landmark speech by Charles de Gaulle to the youth of Germany...Advisers on both sides of the deal believe the companies have more or less settled on the details of a...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 9 months ago
The leaders of Germany and France clashed over plans to monitor Europe's crisis-hit banks Saturday, overshadowing anniversary celebrations of a symbolic step in their post-war reconciliation. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President...
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GMA News
| 9 months ago
Britain's BAE Systems to forge a new aerospace and defense giant, but announced no joint decisions on the $45 billion merger plan. The tie-up would create the world's largest integrated defense and aerospace company with annual sales of $93 billion,...
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The Economic Times
| 9 months ago
Germany and France bear a special responsibility in tackling the euro zone crisis and are committed to working together, Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande said at a commemoration of Franco-German relations in Ludwigsburg on Saturday. Speaking in...
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Kansas City Star
| 9 months ago
The leaders of France and Germany both stressed Saturday that Europe must further deepen its political and economic integration to ensure peace and continuous prosperity across the continent.French President Francois Hollande met Chancellor Angela...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
President Francois Hollande inaugurated a new Holocaust memorial center on Friday with an address that underscored the direct approach he has taken to France 's collaborationist past, a grim and still uncomfortable chapter that French leaders and...
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The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
Jews to Nazi death camps, President Francois Hollande said as he inaugurated a new Holocaust memorial centre. "Now our duty is to shape the spirit of the generations to come," Hollande said on Friday in a speech at the opening of a major new...
