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France has a specificity - the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are French. They had a habit of, let's say, getting along with each other, and the prices traditionally were very high.

Everybody makes a lot of money when the French come to town.

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.

Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.

France has to reform, to recover, and get more competitiveness.

I tend to look at things from the supply side, looking for ways to make it less expensive to do more production. I think that's what creates a demand and keeps an economy moving.

What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make the effort to straighten out the country, and at the same time they want it to be just and equitable.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.