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...“Companies who choose to come to Canada do so because we have a competitive economic environment and because we are a global player in artificial intelligence,” said François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s...
...His daughter Adèle followed a British army officer to Canada in 1863, while his son François-Victor left Guernsey following the death of his fiancée in 1865....
...client’s life, Badinter became a crusader for the abolition of the death penalty in France — a mission he accomplished nine years later as justice minister in the Socialist-led government of President François...
...Here was France’s greatest first world war hero, the lionised victor of Verdun, on trial for his life, accused of treason during the second world war and collaboration with Nazi Germany....
...The new health minister, who will have to deal with an upsurge of Covid-19 infections from highly infectious coronavirus variants, is François Braun, a doctor and head of the emergency unit at a hospital...
...François-Aïssa Touazi of Medef, the French employers’ federation, said on Thursday that energy supplies had become a priority and France was relying on Saudi Arabia to soften the blow from the war....
...Macron, who has managed to recover from political setbacks, now risks falling victim to the curse of the struggling second-term president that afflicted Charles de Gaulle, François Mitterrand and Jacques...
...Edouard Philippe, Le Havre mayor and former Macron prime minister who joined forces with the president in the legislative election campaign, described the idea as a “grand coalition”, while François Bayrou...
...However, when Macron proposed the idea at the European parliament he recalled that his predecessor François Mitterrand had suggested a broad European club in 1989 as the Soviet Union collapsed....
...Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, the Paris mayor whose party political forebears include presidents François Mitterrand and François Hollande, won just 1.75 per cent of the votes in the first round of the...
...“People have to learn to live in a world that has changed,” Georges-François Leclerc, the senior government official responsible for the region around France’s Channel ports, warned over the weekend....
...“The European Union, given the level of its integration and ambition, cannot be in the short term the only means of structuring the European continent,” he said, recalling that former French president François...
...Socialism itself was at stake, said François Hollande, the Socialist former president, as he rejected a proposal on Thursday to include his party as a junior partner in a “popular union” dominated by the...
...Macron, re-elected French president last month, recalled that his predecessor François Mitterrand had proposed such a broad European club as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989....
...Conscious that he will need leftwing voters in any run-off against the far-right Le Pen, he made sure he was accompanied by two former Socialists, François Rebsamen, Dijon’s mayor, and François Patriat,...
...“We have to economise on gas and electricity in France from today or else things could get difficult next winter,” Jean-François Carenco, president of the Commission for the Regulation of Energy, told the...
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...*This article was amended after publication to reflect that Emmanuel Macron was economy minister in François Hollande’s government...
...Taubira, a former justice minister in the Socialist government of François Hollande and an elected member of the National Assembly from the French territory of Guiana in South America for nearly two decades...
...Or a scandal might fell one of the candidates — and boost the other contenders — as it did Les Republicains’ François Fillon in 2017, whose campaign was hit by revelations that he had paid his wife for fictitious...
...Le Drian, foreign minister since the start of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency in 2017 and previously defence minister under President François Hollande, insisted that there was no divergence with the US on...
...Long gone are the days when the Socialist François Mitterrand won the presidential election and ended the left’s postwar political drought in 1981....
...The French, he said, recalled “the land of Joan of Arc and of Louis XIV, the land of Bonaparte and General de Gaulle, the land of knights and noblewomen, the land of Victor Hugo and Chateaubriand, the land...
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...His push for reforms, including an overhaul of labour rules, earned him backing from many business leaders, and he profited in 2017 from the fall from grace of François Fillon, the LR candidate once seen...
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