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Macron eyes action against Chinese buyers of French farmland
TheLocal.fr ^ | 22 February 2018 15:23 CET+01:00 | AFP

Posted on 02/22/2018 12:01:38 PM PST by Olog-hai

President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday promised measures to help prevent foreign investors buying agricultural land in France after a string of international controversies over Chinese purchases.

“For me, French agricultural lands are strategic investments on which our sovereignty depends, so we can’t allow hundreds of hectares of land to be bought by foreign powers without us knowing the aims of these purchases,” Macron told a crowd of young farmers at the presidential palace.

He was referring to news last year that a Chinese fund had bought 900 hectares of land in the cereal-growing Allier region in central France, following an acquisition of 1,700 hectares in the Indre area in 2016. …

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TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food; Local News
KEYWORDS: allier; china; emmanuelmacron; europeanunion; eussr; farmland; france; indre; macron; redchina

1 posted on 02/22/2018 12:01:38 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

If were a French citizen, the Chinese would certainly be preferable masters to the sheep and goat fornicators. And the Chinese certainly know how to keep them out.


2 posted on 02/22/2018 12:17:00 PM PST by VietVet876
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To: cba123

Ping!


3 posted on 02/22/2018 12:35:02 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: Olog-hai

No foreigner should be allowed to buy land in the U.S.A. without being at least a legal permanent resident first.


4 posted on 02/22/2018 1:21:43 PM PST by familyop (President Trump said that we're all important, so let's do something!)
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To: Olog-hai

the Chinese buy a farm then fill it with slave labor from home


5 posted on 02/22/2018 1:39:54 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; BTerclinger; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Olog-hai. It's hilarious that he thinks France is anything but a second-rate appendage of the EU.

6 posted on 02/22/2018 1:41:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: VietVet876

That should be a false dilemma.

Of course, the larger problem is that the French taught bloody revolution and godless communal living to the world. It was Robespierre and “Gracchus” who inspired Marx and Engels.


7 posted on 02/22/2018 2:18:52 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

What a joker.
He gives their culture to the muslims thinking he can un islamize them.
Where is the difference?
The Chinese might stand and fight the muslim invasion...lol


8 posted on 02/22/2018 2:20:17 PM PST by himno hero (hadnuff)
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