The fact that they're controlled by governments--often not democracies--is another reason they're a challenge to the Anglo-Saxon model.

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Corporate Europe needs the Anglo-Saxon model to win if it is to provide the best growth and job prospects.

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The feeling in Brussels was that the financial crisis was the fault of the Anglo-Saxon finance model.

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That will require adopting a more aggressive Anglo-Saxon business model where labour is more flexible and red tape is slashed.

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They want the Anglo-Saxon economic model - a liberalised economy, open markets, free trade, an end to the agricultural subsidies that, for the French, have been the bedrock of the European Union for half a century.

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They dread the so-called Anglo-Saxon economic model.

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This bid has unleashed a Manichaean struggle between the ossified German economic model and the liberal Anglo-Saxon one.

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Porsche's wariness of Anglo-Saxon capitalism and its defence of a distinctive Rhineland business model is not unusual in Germany.

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From high-ranking corporate executives and bankers, you still hear talk of the special Japanese model, whereby shareholders are only one interest and rough "Anglo-Saxon" capitalism is antithetical.

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