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Sarkozy’s five-year prison term starts with fingerprints and a mug shot
21 Oct 2025 13:12 GMT
… financial crisis, followed by the eurozone sovereign-debt crisis, took a … found himself lagging Socialist candidate François Hollande. Sarkozy responded by taking a …
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Alexis Tsipras’s Memoir ‘Ithaca’ Coincides with New Political Launch
17 Oct 2025 07:09 GMT
… a Greek exit from the Eurozone (“Grexit”), and the closure of … European leaders, including Angela Merkel, François Hollande, and Vladimir Putin.
Personal and …
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France's political upheaval isn't temporary - it's a profound constitutional crisis | Pierre Purseigle
14 Oct 2025 04:13 GMT
… Sarkozy on the right and François Hollande on the left, this cohort … especially challenging, defined by the eurozone debt crisis and an unprecedented …
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The waters are closing over Emmanuel Macron’s head
12 Oct 2025 20:34 GMT
… emerging as a minister in François Hollande’s government a decade ago … the debt sustainability of the eurozone’s second-largest member, one …
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Lecornu reappointed as French Prime Minister: 3 things to know about French crisis
11 Oct 2025 07:59 GMT
… observers, such as former President Francois Hollande, as appeasing the far-right … highest public debt in the eurozone after Greece and Italy, and …
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Macron’s Tightrope: Navigating France’s Political Impasse
06 Oct 2025 12:43 GMT
… , this could spell marginalization, echoing François Hollande’s lame-duck years.
The … against national peril. France, the eurozone’s second-largest economy, cannot …
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EU Commission to slash fines on member states breaking fiscal rules
02 Oct 2025 16:28 GMT
… at the height of the eurozone debt crisis.
Now the commission … in the midst of the eurozone debt crisis, which saw five … repeatedly flouting the rules during Francois Hollande’s presidency between 2012 and …
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France Is Deep in Debt but Failing to Tax the Superrich
29 Sep 2025 16:55 GMT
… biggest budget deficit in the eurozone. The debt burden now stands … . In the 2010s, Socialist president François Hollande famously introduced a 75 percent …
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‘Greece was kept in eurozone for allowing more US bases’
07 Jul 2023 11:45 GMT
… able to remain in the eurozone despite the large hit to … Greece were to exit the eurozone, which Yannis Varoufakis, then-Greek … Obama and then-French President Francois Hollande mediated, and an agreement on …
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Macron played with fire by razing the middle ground. Now France is burning
09 Sep 2025 12:08 GMT
… worse, if France drives the eurozone into a debt crisis).
How … economy under the Socialist president François Hollande. But in 2016, he expressed …