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To: Berlin_Freeper

Cuz France couldn’t just be for the French...

Perhaps you could create a society for France that encourages families non?


5 posted on 03/08/2018 3:13:24 PM PST by Professional
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To: Professional
France IS for the French

You do realize that France since the French revolution has a sense of nationality akin to the American sense where people are supposed to become French? That's how the Fanconization of people in Alsace, Lorraine, Britany, Gascon, Corsica, Tahiti, French Guiana happens/happened

The French concept is that you can have Nicholas Sarkozy who is the son of a Hungarian origin father and a mixed Greek-Jewish and French-Catholic mother

Ditto for Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris who is completely Spanish OR Isild Le Besco of mixed Corsican, Algerian, etc. blood

So France is highly, highly chauvanistic -- they actively try to destroy minority languages like Corsican, Breton, Gascon, etc.

17 posted on 03/09/2018 5:36:25 AM PST by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Professional
Also France has strong pro-family policies giving large amounts of maternity leave, support for mothers, even paternity leave. It has a birth rate that is well over the replacement rate (of 2.1) and that includes "white" French as well. With the exceptions of the banlieus, France is better integrated than the USA in terms of different ethnicities -- the UK is better integrated than both.

Radical Mslims are a problem in both countries, but note that in France in particular, most "Muslims" are muslim in name only -- the levels of mosque attendance are en par with church attendance -- miserable. The state is anti-religion, all religions.

18 posted on 03/09/2018 5:40:49 AM PST by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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Finally, note that Macron is talking about India investing in France and using France as the gateway for investments from and to the rest of the EU.

This is actually very plausible as the UK is leaving the EU

Most likely companies that want to do business in the EU will move to a mix of Ireland (Dublin and Cork), France (Paris- La Defense) and Frankfurt

It makes sense for non-EU countries to have a place they can do business with the EU through.

The front-runners for the gateway to the EU have different stengths and weaknesses:

  1. Ireland: good for business but very little business infrastructure and too small
  2. Germany - good for business, good startup area in Berlin and very strong Mittelstand
  3. France: large companies, big market but not good business environment for start ups
  4. Poland: upcoming, great for back offices and IT and technology, a middling industrial area - but close to Germany and the Czech republic

19 posted on 03/09/2018 5:54:21 AM PST by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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