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Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
... France Presse included, most foreign news agencies quoted France's Prime Minister Francois Fillon last week as saying the following during his visit to Cyprus – meaning Greek Cyprus, of course: “We are observing with great care the completion of the commitments Turkey has taken on, but I would like to say that we simply cannot accept into the EU a country which has occupying troops...
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Mickey News (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
With the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours ending after this year's race, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon is working to have it replaced with a Formula One race at Disneyland Paris, the daily Le Figaro reported Friday.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
François Fillon announced that economic reform efforts had "borne fruit", promising to reign in the bloated deficit as protests grow in France.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Igor Suberbiola and Jon Salaberria.In a statement, the office of France's prime minister, François Fillon, called López Peña one of Eta's "historic leaders" and hailed the cooperation between France and Spain.Eta, which is viewed as a terrorist group by the EU and US, is fighting for an independent Basque territory in northern Spain and southern France. Many of its members are based...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
... to be tight, we need to take a bite into the left without losing out on the right," Prime Minister Francois Fillon was quoted as saying in Le Figaro newspaper last week. After weeks of behind-the-scenes dealing, Fillon will defend a heavily-amended version of the text before the lower house National Assembly Tuesday evening, the start of a seven-week legislative process. To...
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Charles Bremner (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
... harder, the French were encouraged in the old belief that "progress" meant ever greater time off. François Fillon, Sarkozy's Prime Minister, calls the law France's greatest blunder of modern times. Yesterday leaders of Sarkozy's own Union for a Popular Movement demanded its outright abrogation. They were immediately slapped down by the boss. Sarkozy wants to make the law more flexible...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
EU and Latin American leaders wrapped up their annual summit with a pledge to sign additional free trade agreement. In separate talks, French Premier François Fillon renewed calls for the liberation of FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
... Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Tajik Prime Minister Akil Akilov, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. Also offering condolences to China are: Japanese Speaker of the House of Representatives Yohei Kono, British Finance Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, former Romanian Prime Minister, member of parliament Adrian...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Paris - With the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours ending after this year's race, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon is working to have it replaced with a Formula One race at Disneyland Paris, the daily Le Figaro reported Friday. According to the n...
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TotalF1.com - Recent Formula 1 News (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
As this season's French Grand Prix will be the last one organised at the Magny-Cours Circuit, Bernie Ecclestone and the French prime minister Francois Fillon are looking into a new venue for the race.
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Irna (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
... state budget goes to pay for civil servants and state pensions. Sarkozy and his prime minister, Francois Fillon, say they intend to have a balanced budget by 2012. Fillon was encouraged Thursday by reports that economic growth was up in the first quarter, and that the French economy was likely to grow between 1.7 percent and 2 percent this year. Thursday evening, Sarkozy told...
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F1 Fanatic (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Bernie Ecclestone has reiterated his desire to see the 2009 French Grand Prix held in Paris instead of its current venue Magny-Cours: We agreed that there would be a French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours in 2008 but not in 2009. Prime Minister Francois Fillon told me we would then see if we could have a Grand [...]
