Topic: Jean-Louis Borloo

Hollande extends poll lead on Sarkozy in France

PARIS (Reuters) - Socialist presidential hopeful Francois Hollande is pulling further ahead in the race for next year's election in France, according to an opinion poll on Tuesday which showed President Nicolas Sarkozy trailing far behind.Hollande would win 32 percent of ...

Sarkozy election hopes brighter after rival's exit

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's uncertain reelection prospects gained a small boost on Monday after popular former environment minister Jean-Louis Borloo, a centrist, said he would not run for president next April.Borloo's decision, announced on Sunday, reduces the ...

Potential Sarkozy rival quits election race

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's re-election prospects may have improved after popular former environment minister Jean-Louis Borloo said he would not run for president next April.Borloo's decision, announced on Sunday night, reduces the risk that the conservative vote ...
Fillon is expected to be rapidly re-appointed premier, and he will then go on to name a new team of ministers, hoping to reinvigorate the government and thus kickstart Sarkozy's undeclared 2012 re-election campaign.Government officials and the governing UMP party ...

French families face holiday petrol shortages

Unions showed no sign of giving up and have vowed more protests in their months-long struggle against the bill whose passage into law expected next week the government hopes will end protests that brought millions onto the streets.The vote late Friday ...
Police used tear gas to repel 200 demonstrators trying to block a fuel depot before dawn near the southern city of Toulouse as part of protests against President Nicolas Sarkozy's bid to hike retirement age to 62, unions said.Police moved ...

Europe must up CO2 cuts to 30%: EU's big three

Germany, France and Britain on Thursday jointly called for the European Union to deepen its planned reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions from 20 to 30 percent by 2020.Ministers from Europe's three biggest economies made the exceptional move in a commentary published ...
European ministers will discuss genetically modified crops in the autumn, the EU said Wednesday, a day after a proposal aimed at breaking a deadlock on the controversial foods was widely criticised."The object of the proposal was to start a discussion on ...

France, UK, Sweden want deep CO2 cut, Italy opposed

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Western European countries gave strong backing to deeper cuts to climate-warming emissions on Friday, but Italy's environment minister said her peers were deluded.The sudden enthusiasm for ambitious climate action came as a surprise after French and German economy ...

Paris Champs-Elysees turned green field by farmers

PARIS (Reuters) - French farmers transformed the most famous avenue of Paris, the Champs-Elysees, into a giant strip of farmland on Sunday in a bid to generate public enthusiasm about a sector they say faces an uncertain future.The two-day event, timed to ...