FRANCE

France's Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin (2nd R), Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie (2nd L), Finance Minister Thierry Breton (L) and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy (R) attend a breakfast meeting at the Hotel Matignon in Paris December 22, 2006. Villepin was questioned for 17 hours until early on Friday by magistrates investigating an apparent smear campaign in 2004 against presidential frontrunner Nicolas Sarkozy. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE)