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Brussels rebukes France on pace of reforms

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EU says France’s shrinking share of global exports and diminishing growth prospects set to continue until country’s labour market is more flexible.

France's richest man Bernard Arnault 'drops bid to become Belgian'

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The head of luxury group LVMH said he always denied the move was for tax reasons but had abandoned plans to avoid 'any ambiguity'.

France's President Hollande: Eradicate tax havens

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President also announced new national, specialist prosecutor for fraud and corruption plus new agency to monitor assets and interests of politicians.

French Senate adopts key article of gay marriage bill

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Senate paves way for new law after voting to redefine marriage as a union between “two individuals of different sex or of the same sex”.

France’s Chief Rabbi declines to resign over plagiarism

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Rabbi Gilles Bernheim admitted plagiarizing parts of a book on Jewish meditations and committing moral errors but said he would not step down.

France starts troop pullout from Mali after anti-Islamist offensive

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Paris aims to complete withdrawal of 3,000 soldiers this year and keep a permanent 1,000-strong force to support U.N. peacekeeping mission.

Socialists drop Cahuzac from party after tax scandal

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France's ruling party revokes membership from disgraced former budget minister who confessed he hid money in a secret Swiss bank account.

French politicians rush to reveal their assets

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After a tax-dodging scandal and ahead of likely stiff new disclosure standards, politicians are publishing details of their properties and assets.

Two French hostages freed in Afghanistan

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One of the men detained, a freelance photographer, managed to escape from the group who had taken him captive last November.

France to publish ministers' assets as scandal deepens

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The prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault says wealth declarations of all the members of government will be made public by April 15.