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French higher Education and Research minister Laurent Wauquiez (C) presents France's first touchscreen tablet computer, named Qooq, next to Eolane Montceau's Operating chief Guillaume Hepp (R), and CEO Paul Raguin, on Octobre 27, 2011 in Montceau-les-Mines, during his visit of the plant.

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French higher Education and Research minister Laurent Wauquiez (L) visits the Eolane Montceau plant eyed by socialist MP Arnaud Montebourg (2ndL), where France's first touchscreen tablet computer, named Qooq, is produced, on Octobre 27, 2011 in Montceau-les-Mines, to visit.

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France's Higher Education and Research Minister Laurent Wauquiez (R) walks past the Minister minister in charge of Relations with the Parliament Patrick Ollier (L) as he leaves the Elysee presidential palace after the weekly cabinet meeting on October 26, 2011 in Paris.

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France's Higher Education and Research minister Laurent Wauquiez (L) delivers a speech next to Arianespace Ceo, Jean Yves le Gall (C) and Roscosmos Russian managing director Vladimir Popovkin (2ndR) on October 21, 2011 in Kourou, French Guiana, after a Soyuz rocket carrying the first...

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France's Higher Education and Research minister Laurent Wauquiez (L), Russian Vice-Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov (C) and Roscosmos Russian managing director Vladimir Popovkin (R) give a press conference on October 21, 2011 in Kourou, French Guiana, after a Soyuz rocket carrying the...

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France's Higher Education and Research minister Laurent Wauquiez (L) listens to Russian Vice-Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov (R) during a press conference on October 21, 2011 in Kourou, French Guiana, after a Soyuz rocket carrying the first two satellites in the Galileo geopositioning...

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Roscosmos Russian managing director Vladimir Popovkin (L) shakes hand with France's Higher Education and Research minister Laurent Wauquiez (R) in Sinnamary, 12km from Kourou, French Guiana, after a Soyuz rocket carrying the first two satellites in the Galileo geopositioning system,...

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France's Higher Education and Research minister Laurent Wauquiez answers journalists' questions in Sinnamary, 12km from Kourou, French Guiana, before a Soyuz rocket carrying the first two satellites in the Galileo geopositioning system, lifted off for its maiden flight from Europe's...

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American comics author Art Spiegelman talks to French Higher Education and Research Minister Laurent Wauquiez (unseen) during his visit at the 39th edition of Angouleme world comic strip festival headed by Art Spiegelman on the opening day, on January 26, 2012 in Angouleme,...

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France's European Affairs Minister Laurent Wauquiez leaves the Elysee Palace in Paris in this May 11, 2011 file photo. Wauquiez said in May that abuse of the welfare system had become a "cancer" in French society. He came in for a hailstorm of criticism from right and left, as...

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French right wing UMP party general secretary Jean Francois Copé (C) sings the Marseillaise French national anthem next to French prime minister Francois Fillon and French government ministers during the French right wing UMP party Campus des Jeunes Populaires 2011 (Youth Popular...

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Members of the French Government (from left), France's Public Services Minister Francois Sauvadet, Education Minister Luc Chatel, Budget Minister Francois Baroin and France's Higher Education and Research Minister Laurent Wauquiez leave the Elysee Palace after a weekly cabinet meeting on...

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France's Cooperation Minister Henri de Raincourt (R), Higher Education and Research Minister Laurent Wauquiez (2ndR), Prime Minister Francois Fillon (2ndL) and Health Junior Minister Nora Berra (L) leave the Elysee palace after the weekly cabinet meeting on July 27, 2011 in Paris.

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Workers at the bankrupt French lingerie brand Lejaby's plant gesture as they listen to France's minister for Higher Education and Research speaking on February 1, 2012 in Yssingeaux, central France. Vincent Raberin, an Auvergne region's fine leather craftsman (CEO of Sofama) and...

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Sports Minister Chantal Jouanno (L), Junior Minister for Expatriates David Douillet (R) and Research and Higher Education Minister Laurent Wauquiez (R) leave the Elysee palace after the weekly cabinet meeting on July 7, 2011 in Paris.

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Junior Minister for Expatriates David Douillet (C), Sports Minister Chantal Jouanno (L) and Higher Education and Research Laurent Wauquiez (R) talk together at the end of the weekly cabinet meeting on July 7, 2011 at the Elysee palace in Paris.

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French European Affairs Minister Laurent Wauquiez talks to the press on June 21, 2011 before a General Affairs Council meeting at EU headquarters in Luxembourg to prepare the June 23 EU summit in Brussels.

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France's Higher Education and Research Laurent Wauquiez speaks during the weekly session of questions to the government on November 29, 2011 at the National Assembly in Paris.

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France's European Affairs Minister Laurent Wauquiez and Urban Development Minister Maurice Leroy leave the presidential Elysee palace on June 8, 2011 in Paris at the end of the weekly cabinet meeting.

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France's Minister or European Affairs Laurent Wauquiez arrives for the 10th ASEM Foreign Ministers' Meeting at the Grassalkovich Royal Palace of Gododllo on June 6, 2011. The delegates assembled for the conference entitled 'Working together on non-traditional security challenges'.

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France's Minister or European Affairs Laurent Wauquiez (R) is welcomed by Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi (L) prior to the 10th ASEM Foreign Ministers' Meeting at the Grassalkovich Royal Palace of Gododllo on June 6, 2011. The delegates assembled for the conference entitled...

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German Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office Werner Hoyer (C) gestures with French Minister for Eurpean Affairs Laurent Wauquiez (R) and Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas (L) prior to the 10th ASEM Foreign Ministers' Meeting for 48 Asian and European delegations at the...

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France's Finance and Economy Minister Christine Lagarde (L), European Affairs Minister Laurent Wauquiez (C) and Minister in charge of the relations with the Parliament Patrick Ollier (R) leave the Elysee Palace after the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris June 1, 2011.

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France's Economy and Finance minister Christine Lagarde (L), European Affairs Minister Laurent Wauquiez (C) and Parliamentary relations minister Patrick Ollier leave the presidential Elysee Palace at the end of the weekly cabinet meeting on June 1, 2011, in Paris.

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France's European Affairs Minister Laurent Wauquiez stands during the weekly session of questions to the government on March 29, 2011 at the National Assembly in Paris.