FRA - François Charles Amand Fillon est un homme politique français né le 4 mars 1954. Il est le Premier ministre de la République française depuis le début du quinquennat présidentiel de Nicolas Sarkozy, le 17 mai 2007. Membre du RPR puis de l’UMP, François Fillon occupa diverses fonctions politiques depuis 1981 : député, ministre, Président de conseil général et sénateur.
Pendant le second mandat présidentiel de Jacques Chirac, il est ministre des Affaires sociales, du Travail et de la Solidarité entre 2002 et 2004 et mène des réformes sur la durée du travail et sur les retraites (Loi Fillon sur les retraires en 2003) ; ministre de ...
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon says that the government has no further stimulus in the pipeline currently. The current spending package "has doubled the public deficit for this year," Fillon said on French television on Friday. Going beyond that "would be a mistake and would prevent any recovery." Fillon also says higher taxes are not the solution for the economy, echoing previous comments made by French President Nicolas Sarkozy earlier in the week. The French government is currently under pressure to increase the tax rate for the country's highest wage earners. The idea of increasing ...
Elviss - in poll François Fillon French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has threatened to nationalize any French bank receiving emergency government aid that does not extend loans to businesses, the online edition of the daily Le Figaro reported on Monday. Interviewed for a television program to be broadcast late Monday, Fillon said, "If we feel that the banks are not doing the necessary work ... we will take back the credits we have given them."Without this government aid, Fillon said, the banks will find themselves in difficulty. "The next question is if we will then take over the bank's capital, possibly to change their ...
a3 - in poll François Fillon
