Globalization is seen as another word for Americanization. All the big multinational brands in Paris are American.

The French will want new rules that are broad enough to allow them to assert control over a wide range of firms in sectors defined as strategic, but narrow enough to win European approval and to assure investors from overseas of real influence over companies in which they take a stake.

Christopher Mesnooh

He has to pander to the masses in the same way George Bush does in the United States. But in this country they don't talk about religion and God. They talk about keeping certain precious assets in the hands of the French.

Christopher Mesnooh