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Nicolas Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, dit Nicolas Sarkozy, né le 28janvier1955 à Paris, est un avocat et homme d'État français. Il est président de la République française de 2007 à 2012.
Avocat de profession, il occupe d'abord les fonctions de maire de Neuilly-sur-Seine, député des Hauts-de-Seine, ministre du Budget et porte-parole du gouvernement, ministre de la Communication ou encore de président par intérim du Rassemblement pour la République (RPR). À partir de 2002, il est notamment ministre de l'Intérieur, ministre de l'Économie et des Finances et président du conseil général des Hauts-de-Seine; il est alors l'un des dirigeants les plus en vue ...
Sarkozy maintains he is the only man who can face down street protests and plough on with his project to reform France, but he is facing an array of different demands and growing anger. Teachers and doctors protested against his long-standing reform plan, saying public-sector job cuts would kill schools and hospitals. University staff are continuing their seven-week strike against higher education reform with sit-ins and occupations.Private-sector employees, including supermarket cashiers, bank clerks and car workers, took to the street over poor pay, factory closures and the return of a ...
spetr - in poll Nicolas Sarkozy About 50 percent of France’s domestic high-speed trains and a third of scheduled flights from Paris’s Orly airport were canceled today as unions called for a second general strike in two months to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy’s “inadequate” response to the economic slump.France’s eight main unions say Sarkozy isn’t doing enough to counter rising unemployment and boost purchasing power. The government expects the economy to shrink 1.5 percent this year, after French companies shed the most jobs in 40 years in the fourth quarter as manufacturing ...
RobinT - in poll Nicolas Sarkozy President Nicolas Sarkozy will go up against the full force of French regional pride if he goes ahead with a new plan to cut costs and bureaucracy by wiping a few regions off the map.From Picardy, a northern land marked by its bloody past from the Hundred Years War to the Battle of the Somme, to eastern Alsace and Lorraine, twice reclaimed from Germany, several historic regions could lose their boundaries and their names.Even Paris could face its most dramatic transformation since the 19th century if Sarkozy pursues the reform being proposed to him, absorbing poor suburbs where youths rioted ...
a3 - in poll Nicolas Sarkozy
