LONDON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Finance ministers from the Group of 20, meeting in London, failed to agree Saturday on compensating bankers to reward them for long-term performance.
LONDON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Britain and France disagree on how to limit big bonuses for bankers, which both countries hold partially responsible for the financial crisis, analysts say.
PARIS, July 27 (UPI) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy was discharged from a military hospital in Paris Monday where he was taken after fainting during a run.
PARIS, April 15 (UPI) -- Iraqi Vice President Adel Abd Mahdi and French President Nicolas Sarkozy prepared Wednesday for bilateral discussions in Paris, officials said.
PARIS, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said the European Central Bank's lending rate cut this week wasn't good enough.
BRUSSELS, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- European finance ministers approved tighter bank controls Tuesday ahead of a global finance summit scheduled for Nov. 15 in Washington.
PARIS, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- French officials said Friday the country's economy had posted consecutive quarters of contraction, putting the French economy into a technical recession.
PARIS, July 25 (UPI) -- Economic reforms passed in France will add 0.3 percentage points of annual growth to the country's economy, the government said.
PARIS, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Political pressure is building for France's scandal-plagued Societe Generale bank to fire the bank's chairman and other top executives.
PARIS, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said Monday that Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel "acted alone" in a $7.35 billion trading scandal.
