PARIS (AP) — France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose conviction in a corruption case was made definitive by France's highest court Wednesday, has been involved in a series of legal ...

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France’s government backs a budget aimed at cutting the national debt, but it may lack enough support in parliament. An ...

France’s rambunctious, razor-tongued former President Nicolas Sarkozy has never hidden his disdain of the nation’s judiciary. But despite his long-running battle with French judges, even Sarkozy could ...

French President Emmanuel Macron named loyalist Sebastien Lecornu, a one-time conservative protege who rallied behind his ...

Wednesday’s announcement by French President Nicolas Sarkozy he’ll return France to full membership in NATO was hardly a surprise, but the defensive tone in which he made the announcement underscores ...

PARIS, May 6 -- Nicolas Sarkozy, the combative son of a Hungarian immigrant, was elected president of France on Sunday, promising a new generation of leadership to transform the country, restore its ...

In France, a rumor of infidelity has morphed into charges of international conspiracy. President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, the former model and singer now known as Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, have denied ...

PARIS, Jan. 14 -- Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy was officially declared the presidential candidate of France's center-right ruling party during a boisterous convention in Paris on Sunday.

VILLEPINTE, Paris (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy, recasting himself as France's saviour from low-cost competition and high immigration, threatened to disregard European limitations on ...

PARIS — France’s highest court has upheld an appellate court decision that had found former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling while he was the country’s head of ...