Monday, September 10, 2007

French Report Tackles Globalization


Here is the real French strategy for globalization which is consistent with their policy for years.

Should this not be taken into account when one of their nationals is being touted as head of a multilateral organization?

Onésimo Alvarez-Moro

See article:
A former French Foreign Affairs Minister says France must step up its fight against globalization

France should work for a "much more offensive policy of protection, solidarity and regulation" at an EU level in order to better face globalisation, according to a report by former French foreign affairs minister Hubert Vedrine.

It should also have the right to protect key or "strategic" sectors of its economy, Mr Vedrine writes in the 63-page document.

"I see globalisation neither as a chance, nor as blight, simply as a fact to which one has to adapt", the former minister is quoted as saying by Le Figaro.

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