Converteam is held by shareholders that include Barclays Capital and LBO France.
This and the venture-capital fund would help to push France in the right direction.
On capital productivity, Britain scores better than France or Germany, and not much worse than America.
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France rejects Wriston's Law, and so it repels capital and talent.
France said it would close its schools in the capital Tunis on Friday and Saturday.
French actor Alain Delon is a Swiss resident as is crooner-rocker Johnny Halliday, and many other French stars and sportsmen ensure they reside for under six months in France in order to escape being taxed here on their income and capital.
The vital question is whether - as and when the cost of bank bailouts is disclosed in the form of the promised proposal to inject capital into all European banks that need strengthening - loans to eurozone countries like Belgium and France will be seen to be more or less at risk.
This city in eastern France is the undisputed Gallic capital of gastronomy due to its rich culinary traditions and to iconic chef Paul Bocuse, whose restaurants, culinary school and influence on the foodie world and other master chefs is immense.
Doriot, as kind and smart and nurturing as he was, was perhaps too old fashioned or advanced in his career, which began in France in the early 20th century, to take venture capital to the next ambitious and empire-building step.
There are about a third of a million French living in London who bring back stories of the British capital's booming restaurant scene and culinary diversity - Indian food in particular - that much of France lacks.
In January the chief executives of Exxon, Shell, France's Total and Eni of Italy flew to Astana, the new northern capital decreed in 1997 and built almost from scratch.
Fortunately, recently, professors Nick Bloom, Toby Kretschmer, and John van Reenen (from Stanford, the University of Munich, and the London School of Economics) conducted an extensive study examining the effect of family-friendly practices on hard variables such as firm sales per employee and return on capital employed, using a large database of firms from the US, the UK, Germany, and France.
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Measures to curb bankers' pay in America, France and Germany have been aimed at only a handful of executives at firms receiving government capital.
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And cash-strapped countries, such as France, are reluctant to pay in a lot of capital to the ESM quickly.
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France is already heavily taxed, and risks deterring its entrepreneurs with an increase in the charge on capital gains.
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