French Economy, Industry and Employment Minister, Christine Lagarde and Junior Minister for Labour Laurent Wauquiez leave the weekly cabinet meeting on October 14, 2009 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

French Economy, Industry and Employment Minister, Christine Lagarde and Junior Minister for Labour Laurent Wauquiez leave the weekly cabinet meeting on October 14, 2009 at the Elysee Palace in Paris.

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  1. French Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez (L) and Industry minister Christian Estrosi leave the Elysee palace after the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris on November 10, 2009.

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  1. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks on the phone as he arrives with France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde (L), Higher Education and Research Minister Valerie Pecresse (2nd R) and former Prime Minister Alain Juppe (R) in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, eastern France, to visit the Bioparc Novalix company December 8, 2009.
  2. French President Nicolas Sarkozy (2nd R) sits between former French Prime Ministers Michel Rocard (R) and Alain Juppe (2nd L), and France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde (L), as they attend a meeting about a new state loan to be launched, in Geispolsheim near Strasbourg, December 8, 2009. Rocard and Juppe handed Sarkozy the report of a committee in charge of setting up investment priorities for a new state loan.
  3. Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado (R) talks with French counterpart Christine Lagarde (L) at the start of a EU finance ministers meeting at the EU Council in Brussels December 2, 2009.
  4. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) accompanied by French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde (R) visits the CNIM mechanical boiler factory in La Seyne sur mer December 1, 2009.
  5. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (2ndL) accompanied by French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde (R) visits the CNIM mechanical boiler factory in La Seyne sur mer December 1, 2009.
  6. President of Deutsche Bundesbank Axel Weber (L-R) German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde attend a news conference after a meeting in Berlin, November 30, 2009. France backs the goal of reducing its budget deficit to three percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2013 but reaching this target will depend on economic conditions, Lagarde said on Monday in the German capital.
  7. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble pauses during a news conference after a meeting with French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde (not pictured) in Berlin, November 30, 2009.
  8. French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde reacts during a news conference after a meeting with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (not pictured) in Berlin, November 30, 2009. France backs the goal of reducing its budget deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2013 but reaching this target will depend on economic conditions, Lagarde said on Monday in the German capital.
  9. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (C) sits with Finance Minister Christine Lagarde (L) and Laurent Wauquiez (R), junior minister for employment, before delivering his speech to managers of French unemployment centres, during a meeting of Pole Emploi (Employment Hub) in Paris November 23, 2009.
  10. French Junior Minister for Relations with Parliament Henri de Raincourt (L) chats with Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux as Junior Minister for Labour Laurent Wauquiez (3rdL) talks with Minister for Town and Country Planning and Rural Affairs Michel Mercier (2ndR) while Health, Youth, Sport Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin (R) looks on at the end of the weekly cabinet meeting on November 16, 2009 at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
  11. French Junior Minister for Family and Solidarity Nadine Morano (C) French Junior Minister,for Relations with Parliament Henri de Raincourt (L) and French Junior Minister for Labour Laurent Wauquiez leave the weekly cabinet meeting on November 16, 2009 at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
  12. French Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez (L) and Industry minister Christian Estrosi leave the Elysee palace after the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris on November 10, 2009.
  13. French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (L) addresses deputies as Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux (R) and Minister of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez (2drow C) listen during the weekly session of the questions to the government, on November 4, 2009 at the French National Assembly in Paris.
  14. (1st row LtoR) French Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo, Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Prime Minister Francois Fillon, (2d row from L) Minister of State for the Green Technology Valerie Letard, Minister of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez and Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux attend the weekly session of the questions to the government, on November 4, 2009 at the French National Assembly in Paris.
  15. French Employment junior Minister Laurent Wauquiez (L) and French national soccer team coach Raymond Domenech attend a meeting "But pour l'emploi" (A Goal for Jobs) in Lyon, October 19, 2009.
  16. French Economy, Industry and Employment Minister, Christine Lagarde and Junior Minister for Labour Laurent Wauquiez leave the weekly cabinet meeting on October 14, 2009 at the Elysee Palace in Paris.

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