Christian Science Monitor - Robert Marquand - 26 minutes ago
A French prosecutor is now investigating whether Liliane Bettencourt, heiress of the L'Oréal fortune, gave some $190000 in illegal campaign contributions to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, welcomes his newly ...
It started out as a dispute between the heiress to a cosmetics fortune and her family. But the row over Liliane Bettencourt's finances has now reached out to touch the president of France himself. It has become a tangled saga of names, connections, ...
PARIS (Dow Jones)--French Prime Minister Francois Fillon Wednesday called on the right-wing majority party to rally behind economic reforms to thwart the controversy that is submerging the government's desired agenda, as prosecutors moved to ...
Prime Minster Francois Fillon was forced to say to journalists today that, "The priority at the moment is not a cabinet reshuffle, but reforming the pension system and cutting deficits."
PARIS — French prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into allegations that the country's richest woman secretly funded President Nicolas Sarkozy's election campaign, a judicial official said Wednesday. The probe is a new blow to Sarkozy, ...
PARIS — Prosecutors are investigated claims on Wednesday that President Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign received illegal funding from France's richest woman, as allies attacked his accusers' "fascist" tactics. The prosecutor's office in the western Paris ...
The French President Nicolas Sarkozy, finds himself in the middle of fresh controversy, alongwith his Labour Minister Eric Woerth, who is also the ruling, ...
French Labour Minister Eric Woerth has repeated he would not resign because of a deepening political scandal in which he and President Nicolas Sarkozy are ...
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