Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.
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No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.
Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.
Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.
If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.
In the U.S. and Canada, we have one store for every 12,000 people.
The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000.
In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.
Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.
Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.