Petrol prices are at their highest in France since May this year, after President Francois Hollande failed to fulfil his campaign promise of freezing the price at the pumps.
French President Francois Hollande admitted on Thursday he is braced for further market turbulence this summer following a stocks sell-off on Thursday.
<p>A man has been arrested after throwing a fire extinguisher at new president Francois Hollande’s Socialist Party headquarters in Paris, after a dispute with his local council.</p>
<p>Pressure built on president-elect Francois Hollande to stand by France's austerity vows Tuesday, with Germany's Angela Merkel saying Europe was counting on them to resolve the bloc's debt crisis.</p>
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<p>Outgoing French leader Nicolas Sarkozy will hand power to president-elect Francois Hollande on May 15, following talks between the two camps, the presidency announced on Monday.</p>
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<p>Francois Hollande was elected France's first Socialist president in nearly two decades on Sunday, dealing a humiliating defeat to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and shaking up European politics.</p>
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<p>Socialist Francois Hollande was on track to defeat right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy as France saw the final day of campaigning Friday before its presidential election run-off.</p>
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<p>Nicolas Sarkozy made a last-ditch effort to revive his struggling re-election bid Wednesday, branding Socialist frontrunner Francois Hollande a "liar" in the campaign's only live television<br />debate.</p>
<p>Nicolas Sarkozy will make a last-ditch bid on Wednesday to turn the tide against Socialist Francois Hollande when they go head to head in the French presidential election's one and only television debate.</p>
<p>They are both 57 years old, but few men could be more different than Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, the rival candidates jockeying to win France's presidential election next Sunday.</p>
<p>French presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande headed into the last round of his battle with Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday, with both candidates threatened by the shadow of scandal.</p>
<p>The Socialist frontrunner in France's presidential race said Thursday it would be possible to renegotiate a eurozone fiscal pact to include growth measures despite Germany's misgivings.</p>
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<p>Francois Hollande's election to the French presidency will be bad for his country and Europe, Britain's influential The Economist weekly said, calling the front-running Socialist a "dangerous" man.</p>
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<p>The rightwing UMP party has accused Socialists of courting the Muslim vote and alleges that mosques are calling for the faithful to vote for leftwing candidate Francois Hollande.</p>
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<p>Socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande on Sunday rejected President Nicolas Sarkozy's challenge to hold three televised debates with him before the second round vote on May 6.</p>
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<p>Duelling left-right rivals Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy launched the race for the French presidential run-off on Monday, a race shaken up by the far-right's record first-round score.</p>
<p>Nicolas Sarkozy made a last-gasp bid to woo voters Friday, the last campaign day before the crucial first-round French presidential vote that Socialist rival Francois Hollande is tipped to win.</p>
<p>France votes in the first round of a presidential election Sunday with Socialist Francois Hollande the favourite over incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, whose personal style and handling of the economy alienated many voters.</p>
<p>France's former right-wing president Jacques Chirac will vote for the Socialists' Francois Hollande in Sunday's first-round presidential vote, a newspaper Tuesday quoted a source close to him as saying.</p>
<p>France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Socialist challenger Francois Hollande staged rival street rallies for tens of thousands of supporters Sunday, one week from their presidential election.</p>
<p>French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared on Wednesday that a win for his Socialist rival Francois Hollande in next week's presidential vote would plunge France into financial crisis.</p>
<p>French President Nicolas Sarkozy would beat Socialist rival Francois Hollande in the first round of the presidential election in April, according to a survey published Tuesday, the first time the incumbent has been ahead in opinion polls.</p>
<p>The journalist girlfriend of French Socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande tweeted Thursday she was furious to find herself on the front of the glossy Paris Match magazine she works for.</p>
