Minister of the Interior, Overseas France, and Local Authorities Michele Alliot-marie of France
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Before her entry into national politics, Alliot-Marie was a municipal councillor in the town of Ciboure from 1983 to 1988 and for the town of Biarritz 1989 to 1992.
Sarkozy and Alliot-Marie had a history of disagreements in the National Council.
Alliot-Marie supports lifting the ban on arms exports to China.
French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has ordered security measures to be strengthened at Jewish sites across the country.
Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said in a statement that Sunday's nighttime attack in Saint-Denis was "cowardly and inadmissible.
Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said France has faced a "very clear.
Alliot-Marie said she wanted the ban on arms exports to China to be lifted.
Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie met with representatives of the French secret service, police departments, railway services and Paris airports, and department stores to brief them on Tuesday's incident, in which five sticks of dynamite were found inside the upscale Printemps store.
Alliot-Marie said she wants to see three new measures put in place to reinforce security in the coming weeks, including reinforced airport security for passengers and baggage, and new parking restrictions around department stores and train stations.
Alliot-Marie said the investigation into the incident was still under way, and it is too early to draw conclusions.
Responding to the continental drift that has threatened to further separate the two shores of the Atlantic, Minister Alliot-Marie has said that she would be the Minister of defense diplomacy (diplomatie de defense): For the first time in two decades, she invited the NATO Defense Ministers to an informal ministerial meeting that was held in Nice earlier this year.
Alliot-Marie has parachuted out of airplanes, visited soldiers in Afghanistan and Lebanon, and has insisted on being called "Le Ministre," using the masculine French form, as opposed to "La Ministre," the feminine.
This comes as French Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie said Islamism in France was very much alive and had found an ideal recruiting ground in the country's prisons.
Michele Alliot-Marie said in an interview published on Thursday.
Alliot-Marie said in an interview with French daily Le Figaro.
NEW YORK French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said that despite recent tensions, France and the United States would always be united whenever their essential liberties were threatened.
Alliot-Marie said that much of what some term a "clash of civilizations" is in fact simply a "clash of interests.
Alliot-Marie has not yet said whether she intends to run for president, but Friday she said that she had many "convictions.
TiesOct 20 - By Sarah DiLorenzo, Associated Press WriterFrench Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said that despite recent tensions, France and the United States would always be united whenever their essential liberties were threatened.
Alliot-Marie is a safe pair of hands, by most people's reckoning, but there have been a few political eyebrows raised - mainly from the opposition as to how come the top three in government couldn't co-ordinate their diaries a little better to ensure that at least one of them was in the country over the festive season.
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var RTR_ArticleBlurb = "By Gerard Bon PARIS (Reuters) - France will deploy hundreds of extra police at busy public places in its main cities after dynamite was planted in a Paris department store, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said on Wednesday.
PARIS (Reuters) - France will deploy hundreds of extra police at busy public places in its main cities after dynamite was planted in a Paris department store, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said on Wednesday.
Alliot-Marie said around 700 extra men would be deployed at department stores and other busy sites during the Christmas shopping period.
1946 - Alliot-Marie was born in Val-de-Marne, France on September 10, 1946.
French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said Sunday talks should be pursued with Iran even though the country was resuming sensitive nuclear activities.
Alliot-Marie said that "as long as there are a number of points which allow US to believe we can make advances we have to persevere because the day when Iran will be totally closed in we will no longer know what's going on.
Alliot-Marie met for more than an hour with King Abdullah in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after talks with Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, who is also defense minister, the source told AFP, requesting anonymity.
Michèle Alliot-Marie is France’s Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
Michèle Alliot-Marie has also held many offices in the RPR.
Alliot-Marie has confirmed she plans to seek the nomination of the ruling UMP party to run in next year's presidential election, challenging party front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy.
PARIS, Nov 11 (UPI) -- French officials say they've arrested 10 alleged members of a violent anarchist gang accused of sabotaging the country's railway system.
After Thursday's meeting of EU interior and justice ministers, Alliot-Marie said EU governments must still work out whether data will only be collected on foreigners aboard flights to the EU or will also include information on EU citizens and passengers on inter-European flights.
As French Defense Minister Michle Alliot-Marie has pointed out, the success of globalization (mondialisation heureuse) has brought US a world that is fragmented, divided, torn apart and in which many of her countrymen feel that their nation is falling to pieces.
Alliot-Marie said they kept their romance secret for 15 years so neither would overshadow the other's career.
Beirut- French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has reaffirmed France's support for the government of Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and the people of Lebanon, during a visit to its capital Beirut.