Chirac calls on EU to create industrial champions
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French President Jacques Chirac called on the European Union Friday to help create &quot;industrial champions&quot; within the 25-nation bloc that would be competitive on the global economic stage.
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A European Commissioner and Italian minister led calls on Wednesday for the European Union to introduce obligatory &quot;Made in...&quot; labels for some products imported into the bloc.
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PARIS, Oct 10  - President Jacques Chirac said Sunday that a state visit he was currently making to China was yielding good opportunities for French companies and rejected fears that outsourcing or technology transfers might pose long-term
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Visiting French President Jacques Chirac hailed "a very strong historical link" between London and Paris, while arguing his case for a multipolar and interdependent world.
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French President Jacques Chirac, who has urged an end to an EU arms embargo on China, called for closer defense cooperation between Paris and Beijing at a meeting with Chinese Defence Minister Cao Gangchuan, a spokesman said.
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French President Jacques Chirac said his country is willing to further strengthen cooperation with China, his spokesman told reporters on Monday.
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In a speech to business and trade union leaders on Tuesday, Jacques Chirac, the French president, said that by 2007 the agency would be given up to 2bn ($2.7bn, 1.4bn) to invest in promising high-growth ...
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French President Jacques Chirac may come closer to his goal of meeting European Union deficit rules for the first time in three years in 2005 after Electricite de France and Gaz de France agreed to make ...
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French President Jacques Chirac&#39;s views on the EU arms embargo against China have been a focus of a visit there as he cultivates new business opportunities.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan urged the European Union on Thursday to open its doors to non-Christians after French President Jacques Chirac made a vibrant appeal to bring Turkey into the EU.
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French President Jacques Chirac gestures while speaking during a final media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Friday March 9, 2007.Comment
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French President Jacques Chirac reiterated Friday its support for Turkish membership for the European Union (EU). Chirac noted that &quot;in any case, we should take all the necessary
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(InfoWorld) - The French government plans to make the region around Paris a center of excellence for open-source software development, the French Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, Thierry Breton, said Monday. The goal of the center of excellence is to develop a healthy and profitable open-source software industry. Breton, previously head of France TÃ©lÃ©com SA, announced the plan at a news conference to discuss a new report on the French economy's future, "The intangible economy: tomorrow's growth." A new economic and technological model, built on free software, is forming in the IT industry, Breton said. As this new opportunity opens up, it is "calling into question the dominant positions formed in the software industry over the last 15 years." France must seize this opportunity, in a sector where the country is teeming with talent, he said. Breton hopes that sales of software and other intangibles will help the French economy grow by between 3 percent and 4 percent annually. In contrast, the Chinese economy, based on more tangible goods such as the export of computers, is growing at around 10 percent annually, according to figures from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. A group of academics and open-source software entrepreneurs have come together to create the center of excellence. Roberto Di Cosmo, professor at the University of Paris 7, will lead the group, assisted by Alexandre Zapolsky, chief executive officerÂ of open-source software services company Linagora SA. FranÃ§ois Bancilhon, CEO of Linux distributor Mandriva SA and StÃ©fane Fermigier, CEO of open-source enterprise content management software company Nuxeo SAS will also take part. The group's members said the center of excellence will allow the Paris region to renew its industrial base and slow the loss of jobs to low-cost locations. Although the Internet other tools have simplified virtual collaborative working, software development still needs a physical place, Di Cosmo said via e-mail. "It would be very naÃ¯ve to forget the importance of human contact, and the physical environment in which many projects grow before moving into the virtual phase. If everything is so simple in the virtual world, why are there so many developers' conferences?" he said. Explaining the choice of Paris as a center, Fermigier said, "We work with many people elsewhere, but the kernel is in the Paris region." While Breton is clearly most concerned with France's economic growth, the center will also contribute to the development of the software industry across the European Union, Fermigier said. The French government has published the report as a PDF file.
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Europe appears to be on the brink of a period of sustained economic growth but it is essential that governments step up the pace of structural reform, the French central bank chief has said.
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French President Jacques Chirac is calling for the lifting of the European Union&#39;s arms embargo against China, The Telegraph reported Monday.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are among European leaders taking centre stage at the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of the rich, powerful and famous.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy urged Britain to play an integral role in the European Union's push for economic reform.