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 | | France is doing this not for charity, but because Saddam Hussein has promised France the oil fields: there are unsigned protocols between Saddam and Chirac that would grant France the rights to exploit the largest oil fields in the Middle East, and become de facto owner of Iraqi economy. | | | France opposed the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein's tyranny, but somehow it was ok for the USA to liberate France from Hitler's tyranny (a liberation that cost thousands of French lives). | | | The reason some of these freedom-fighters were in France is that France used to be part of the democratic world before Chirac became president and turned France into the defender of all mad dictators in the world. |
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| | France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This concept of a Nation agreed upon is opposed to the German concept of a Nation based on ethnicity and race, and it was responsible for much of the conflicts between France and Germany in the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. | | | In 2003, France's natural population growth (excluding immigration) was responsible for almost all the natural growth in European population: the population of the European Union increased by 216,000 inhabitants (without immigration), of which 211,000 was the increase in France's population alone, and 5,000 was the increase in all the other countries of the EU combined. | | | France possesses a large variety of landscapes, ranging from coastal plains in the north and west, where France borders the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, to the mountain ranges in the south (the Pyrenees) and the south-east (the Alps), the latter containing the highest point in western Europe, Mont Blanc at 4810 m. |
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| | Anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, anti-capitalism |
| | Eventually, both France and Germany will accept the free-market economy in principle, perhaps not out of conviction but because of a lack of alternatives. | | | Opponents of the constitution in France believe that the EU itself may be on the brink of turning into an Anglo-Saxon economy, and that this may prevent France from maintaining its social model. | | | In the social market economy the market itself is subject to a high degree of institutional interference — through works councils, corporate supervisory boards in which shareholders and trade unions share power, labour legislation that protects employees in most legal disputes, and market rules that are far more restrictive than in most modern economies. |
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| | Vichy France -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | (1907–82), French political leader, born in Paris, France; admitted to bar at 21, elected deputy at 25; imprisoned by Vichy government 1940, escaped 1941 and served with Free French forces; minister of national economy 1944–45; on UN Economic and Social Council 1947–50; premier 1954–55; author of ‘A Modern French Republic'. | | | formally French State, French État Français (July 1940–September 1944), France under the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain from the Nazi German defeat of France to the Allied liberation in World War II. | | | For some five decades after the end of World War II, silence shrouded the subject of France's complicity with Germany's wartime government in the exportation and ultimate execution of some 76,000 French Jews. |
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| | Foreign relations of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | France is a leader in western Europe because of its size, location, strong economy, membership in European organizations, strong military posture, and energetic diplomacy. | | | France generally has worked to strengthen the global economic and political influence of the EU and its role in common European defense and collective security. | | | A charter member of the United Nations, France holds one of the permanent seats in the Security Council and is a member of most of its specialized and related agencies. |
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| | Indymedia UK - corporate media g8 coverage resource |
| | France, which is hosting the G8 meeting, has agreed to compensate the alpine nation of 7.3 million people for a maximum of 12 million euros ($14 million) | | | ANNEMASSE, France (Reuters) - Anti-G8 protesters have blocked bridges with burning tyres in Geneva and French police have fired teargas at activists who were trying to bar the way to the town of Evian, hours before the start of a summit of world leaders there. | | | On the other, the exhilarating backdrop of the Alps, whose snow-fed mineral water sustained Evian's economy long after the aristocrats who had made the resort one of Europe's playgrounds left town. |
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| | Foreign relations of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | France is a major power in western Europe because of its size, location, strong economy, membership in European organizations, strong military posture, and energetic diplomacy. | | | France and the United Kingdom have been allies ever since, despite occasional tensions (such as: the French perception that the British abandoned France in 1940, see Battle of France and Mers-el-Kébir; the British perception that the French wrongly opposed the 2003 Invasion of Iraq). | | | France gave military aid to the government, despite knowing that factions in the elite and army were preparing for the ethnic elimination of the Tutsi. |
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| | France is doing this not for charity, but because Saddam Hussein has promised France the oil fields: there are unsigned protocols between Saddam and Chirac that would grant France the rights to exploit the largest oil fields in the Middle East, and become de facto owner of Iraqi economy. | | | France opposed the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein's tyranny, but somehow it was ok for the USA to liberate France from Hitler's tyranny (a liberation that cost thousands of French lives). | | | The reason some of these freedom-fighters were in France is that France used to be part of the democratic world before Chirac became president and turned France into the defender of all mad dictators in the world. |
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| | Napoleon III of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Napoléon III also directed the building of the French railway network, which greatly contributed to the development of the coal mining and steel industry in France, radically changing the nature of the French economy, which entered the modern age of large-scale capitalism. | | | Napoléon III has often been seen as an authoritarian but ineffectual leader who brought France into dubious, and ultimately disastrous, foreign military adventures. | | | In France, the arch-opposition of the age's central literary figure, Victor Hugo, whose attacks on Napoléon III were obsessive and powerful, made it impossible for a very long time to assess his reign objectively. |
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| | Outline of a Doctrine of French Policy by Alexandre Kojeve - Policy Review, No. 126 |
| | Everybody agrees that France’s present population is not enough to maintain the French economy at — or to raise it to — the level of the economy of a great modern power. | | | Even without speaking of the Spanish mineral resources, it can be said that these two countries will participate in the imperial economy through the labor which they will put at the Empire’s (and thus France’s) disposal. | | | This economy, for its part, would enable the standard of living in the future to rise in the whole Empire, which is to say, above all, in Spain and in southern Italy. |
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| | Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry (France) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry (France) | | | The Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry (Ministre de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie), or Minister of Finances for short, is one of the most prominent positions in the cabinet of France after the Prime Minister. | | | The current Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry is Thierry Breton. |
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| | Conversely, Chinese economic reform under Deng Xiaoping has been characterized by decreasing state ownership of the economy, the replacement of central planning mechanisms with market-based ones that are also used in Western capitalist nations, and even going as far as removing governmental social welfare services that are commonly found in most capitalist nations. | | | In France, again self-referentially, it was used in 1832 to refer to followers of the doctrines of Saint-Simon and thereafter by Pierre Leroux and J. Regnaud in l'Encyclopédie nouvelle | | | There is general agreement among socialists and non-socialists that a socialist economy would not include private or estate ownership of large enterprises; there is less agreement on whether any such enterprises would be owned by society at large or (at least in some cases) owned cooperatively by their own workers. |
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| | Geography and History France |
| | members Economy, Geography and History europw hiw, cities msps eirope msp richest man in the world is...Web Resources Geography and History France...Bill Gates - a position he has held for over a decade. | | | Links about Leisure, Tourist Attractions and Mediterranean Sea Coast, Terrain and Climate Geography and History France Principality of Monaco, French Principauté de Monaco People and Arts Economy, Geography and History sovereign principality located along the Mediterranean Sea in the midst of the resort Population, Map and Flag area of the Côte d'Azur (French Riviera). | | | The city of Nice miles tothe Economy, Geography and History west, the Italian border milws tp th e east. |
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| | CNN.com - G-7 meets amid slowdown fears - Feb. 21, 2003 |
| | When the forecast was made "we were convinced, like others, that the world economy was in the process of heading back in the right direction," Mer said on France-2 television. | | | Finance ministers from the world's leading nations have been arriving in Paris -- facing the challenge of how to energise a sagging global economy being further shaken by fears of a war in Iraq. | | | There was added gloom from France ahead of the financial summit -- with Finance Minister Francis Mer saying that the global economic slowdown was forcing him to revise this year's French growth forecast down from 2.5 percent. |
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| | The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Economy - overview |
| | Since 1962, when France stationed military personnel in the region, French Polynesia has changed from a subsistence economy to one in which a high proportion of the work force is either employed by the military or supports the tourist industry. | | | France is in the midst of transition, from a well-to-do modern economy that featured extensive government ownership and intervention to one that relies more on market mechanisms. | | | France's leaders remain committed to a capitalism in which they maintain social equity by means of laws, tax policies, and social spending that reduce income disparity and the impact of free markets on public health and welfare. |
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| | geography of france |
| | ABC Country Book of France - geography Flag, Map, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues,... | | | France Interactive Factbook: GEOGRAPHY, Flag, Map,Geography, People, Government, Economy, Transportation, Communications... | | | France has a surface area of 550,000 km2, which makes it... |
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| | Doing business in France |
| | Until 1992 countries that consider that their economies are being affected by dumping can petition the Commission for a temporary halt to the imports in question. | | | It is evident that the French economy can no longer be considered in isolation. | | | Geography and climate France, located near the geographical center of Western Europe, is bordered by the North Sea and the English Channel in the north, the Atlantic Ocean in the west snd the Mediterranean Sea in the south. |
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| | 1000Countries.com: Wallis and Futuna II: wallis and futuna, WALLIS AND FUTUNA |
| | The islands of Wallis and Futuna are an overseas territory of France... | | | As an overseas territory of France, Wallis and Futuna is administered by a Prefect (Senior Administrator... | | | The Territory of Wallis and Futuna (Territoire des Iles Wallis et Futuna) are volcanictropical... |
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| | Anglo-Saxon economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The expression became associated with an economic idea as it is used regularly in Europe, often to exemplify the economically "liberal" and socially "conservative" approach of the English-speaking societies of the UK and the US, in contrast to Europe's continental economy. | | | Countries in mainland Europe (such as France, Italy and Germany) possess a macroeconomic model called continental capitalism, which involves greater amounts of regulation and taxation, generally resulting in lower income inequality, a lower poverty rate, stronger social indicators and more performant public services (such as health care, social security and education). | | | There is still a question amongst Anglo-saxons as to whether or not there really is such a thing as an "anglo-saxon" economy. |
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| | Another of France's particularities is the tendency of its leaders to noisily denounce globalization while accepting the reality that they cannot stop it – and should not want to. | | | A second reason is the very strong French attachment to their culture and their identity, which many in France believe is threatened by a globalization that takes the form of Americanization. | | | Similarly, President Jacques Chirac promises to "humanize" globalization and denounces the "ultra-liberal Anglo-Saxon economy" while the share of foreign stock and investment in the French stock market only increases under his leadership. |
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| | Commonwealth of France’s Louis XI |
| | France's King Louis XI, who reigned from 1461 to 1483, created the modern form of nation-state, or commonwealth, in which the nation's wealth is seen as the common property of the nation and its whole people; which wealth is a function of the increase in the free energy of the economy as a whole. | | | France was fertile ground for such a project, with the political legacy of Charlemagne (724-814), and a rich Platonist heritage dating to Gerbert d'Aurillac, the future Pope Sylvester II (942-1003), and his student Fulbert (960-1028), who became known as the “Venerable Socrates” of the Chartres Academy. | | | Louis' father, Charles VII, the Dauphin and heir to the throne, was officially disinherited. |
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| | Napoleon III's greatest success was improving the economy of France. | | | While early nationalism was liberal and democratic in goals, Napoleon III in France used it for authoritarian purposes. | | | He was elected president of France in 1848. |
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| | SparkNotes: Europe (1848-1871): The Second Empire in France (1852-1870) |
| | Granted, poverty remained (despite Napoleon III's original promise in the presidential election of 1848; however, no one could argue against the fact that the economy was improving and France was doing pretty well. | | | Louis surprise the entire nation when, on December 2, 1851, he seized power in a coup d'etat and became dictator of France. | | | He wanted Paris to be the center of world culture and politics not only because he was fiercely patriotic, but also because the effect such international prestige would have on his voting public would be necessary to the maintenance of his regime. |
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| | Single Enlisted Men lived in the barracks, and married personal lived off post on the economy. | | | The decision to reestablish ComZ in France was governed primarily by the strategic position of this nation on the European continent. | | | ORLEANS, France, Sept. 13 (Special) -- The Army's airstrip at Saran, France, a few miles from Com Z Hq here, has been called the "smallest-largest airline in the world." For though it services all of France and is operational 24 hours a day, its 2,000-foot runway has a mere postage-stamp appearance. |
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| | I've also read a number of articles lately saying that corporate America is rather shaky in its support of war with Iraq due to a belief that "war jitters" are hurting the economy. | | | Consider: if 14 out of 15 Security Council members approved of an invasion of Iraq but France vetoed it, it's hard to argue that this should be allowed to prevent a military action that obviously has virtually unanimous international support. | | | France is out of the habit of greatness, and it shows which is about what you should expect from a country whose national identity is personified by a impressively chesty but otherwise useless fashion model, but more on that later. |
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| | French culture, history, geography, cities, France facts |
| | The government of France has traditionally had a socialist base but has been deregulating its economy since the 1980s. | | | France was once a major conquering empire with colonies across the globe, but suffered huge losses to its economy, empire and manpower during both World Wars I and II. | | | Tourists in France should be mindful of the protests as they may cause travel delays or other inconvenience, although the protests have been mostly peaceful. |
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| | Economy-overview. The World Factbook. 2003 |
| | Since 1962, when France stationed military personnel in the region, French Polynesia has changed from a subsistence agricultural economy to one in which a high proportion of the work force is either employed by the military or supports the tourist industry. | | | The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast potential wealth - has declined drastically since the mid-1980s. | | | The economy is predominantly agricultural with roughly 90% of the population dependent on subsistence agriculture. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: France |
| | Main articles: Government of France (about government structures) and Politics of France (about political groups and tendencies). | | | Tensions occasionally erupt about the alleged or real behaviour of some part of the Muslim minority, or about alleged or real discrimination against that community; see Islam in France. | | | France has 26 régions: 21 of these are in the continental part of metropolitan France, one is Corse on the island of Corsica (although strictly speaking Corse is in fact a "territorial collectivity", not a région, but is referred to as a région in common speech), 4 are overseas. |
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| | Wallis & Futuna Islands |
| | This site has a map of the Pacific Ocean where these islands are located plus information about their economy, government, and people. | | | The Wallis and Futuna island groups are territories of France. | | | Wallis & Futuna - Did you know that the islands of Wallis & Futuna are territories of France? |
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