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   Nicolas Sarkozy

   Sarkozy's government issued a decree on 7 August 2007 to generalise a voluntary biometric profiling program of travellers in airports. ... Nicolas Sarkozy disapproved of the US-led invasion of Iraq, but was nonetheless critical of the way Jacques Chirac and his foreign minister Dominique de Villepin expressed France's opposition to the war.
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   French presidential election, 2007

   Centrist figures of the Socialist party, such as Michel Rocard and Bernard Kouchner, have called for an alliance between Bayrou and Royal, which might have consequences in the June 2007 legislative elections — these will determine the parliamentary majority, and decide if France will, or not, see another cohabitation between the President, head of state, and the Prime minister, leader of the government. ... | Nicolas Sarkozy | UMP | 53% |
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   Protests against the invasion of Afghanistan

   55% of French citizens want their government led by Nicolas Sarkozy to bring their troops home, while 36% are in favour of keeping them in Afghanistan.
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   Presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy

   ↑ France New's Government - A study in perpetual motion, The Economist, June 23, 2007 (English) ... ↑ Nicolas Sarkozy braces for election bruising, CNN, 16 March 2008
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   Dominique de Villepin

   But let us not forget that having won the war, one has to build peace." (address on Iraq at the United Nations Security Council on 14 February 2003, shortly before the US-led invasion of Iraq ) ... | Constitution Constitution Declaration Human rights Fifth Republic Government President Nicolas Sarkozy List Prime Minister François Fillon List Constitutional Council Council of Ministers Parliament National Assembly Senate Congress Judiciary Council of State Court of Cassation Constitutional Council of France Political Parties Political Parties Gaullism UMP The Left PS PCF MoDem Elections Elections in France Last Presidential Last General Subdivisions Regions Departments Foreign Policy Politics of the European Union Foreign relations Minister of Foreign Affairs Related issues Political scandals French Portal |
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   Clearstream

   Clearstream secret accounts also allegedly held part of the Argentine debt which led to the December 2001 riots. ... On January 31, 2006, Nicolas Sarkozy sued.
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   HIV trial in Libya

   This led to charges being filed against 10 Libyan security personnel, some of whom later claimed they had also been tortured, tortured to confess that they had tortured the medics. ... ↑ Press conference of Nicolas Sarkozy in Elysée Palace, broadcasted on all major French TV channels, on July 24 at 10:15 CEST.
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   Ségolène Royal

   This led to an unusually bitter fall-out, and Mr Besson writing a book titled Qui connaît Madame Royal ? ... Nicolas Sarkozy
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   Politics of France

   It remains to be seen how much of these reforms will now be enacted by Sarkozy's first government, as Sarkozy was elected President on a similar platform in May 2007. ... While, inside the UMP which he led, Nicolas Sarkozy was largely uncontested (other possible candidates such as Michèle Alliot-Marie having no real hopes), a bitter campaign opposed three left-wing hopefuls: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Ségolène Royal and Laurent Fabius, each defending a different version of social-democracy.
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    Response to the 2005 civil unrest in France

    On October 25, as he went to Argenteuil, Nicolas Sarkozy used the youth slang word "racaille" ("rabble"). ... It rejected a complaint from 74 law professors (led by Frédéric Rolin) and the Green party, declaring that the conditions that led to the unrest, the quick spread of violence and the possibility that it could recur justify the state of emergency.

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