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Margaret Thatcher, the former U.K. prime minister who helped end the Cold War and was known as the “Iron Lady” for her uncompromising style, died yesterday. She was 87.
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Keeping former President Nicolas Sarkozy in style costs the French taxpayer more than 2 million euros ($2.6 million) annually as his successor drags citizens through an unprecedented shrinking of the state budget.
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A Greek heiress is fighting a legal battle in Switzerland to find out what has become of a collection of Picasso, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne and Degas art that she says should be part of her inheritance.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, the first French president in more than 30 years to fail to win re-election, said he may seek to make a comeback in public life.
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On the evening of Oct. 19, as Claudio Abbado conducted the overture to Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” at Frankfurt’s Old Opera House, members of Europe’s policy elite were in a backroom discussing haircuts.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have never held hands as Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterrand once did at a World War I battlefield. Merkel worries they don’t even talk enough.
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Following is a timeline of the key steps on the road to the euro currency, from the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 to last week’s agreement to set up a “fiscal compact” among countries using the single currency.
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French presidents, like the nation’s kings before them, have a tradition of commissioning grandiose monuments to be remembered by. That may end with the current occupant of the presidential Elysee Palace.
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Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat in the French presidential election makes him the first incumbent in more than 30 years to fail to win re-election, and the ninth European leader to be booted out since the region’s debt crisis began.
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Nicolas Sarkozy’s approval rating is the lowest of any outgoing French president four months ahead of a presidential vote, Le Journal du Dimanche reported, citing an Ifop poll.
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