Sarkozy Cabinet

Outgoing French leader Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet met for its last session on Wednesday as President-elect Francois Hollande held talks with top Socialists to gear up for next month's parliamentary vote. Mr Hollande also held consultations on forming a government and preparing for his first foreign visit, to Berlin, where he is expected to get a fro...

A scandal over secretly taped conversations involving France's richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, threatened on Sunday to engulf a high-profile minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet.

Outgoing French leader Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet met for its last session on Wednesday as President-elect Francois Hollande held talks with top Socialists to gear up for next month's parliamentary vote. Mr Hollande also held consultations on forming a government and preparing for his first foreign visit, to Berlin, where he is expected to get a fro...

A scandal over secretly taped conversations involving France's richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, threatened on Sunday to engulf a high-profile minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet.