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Article: France seduces foreign investors. (includes related article)
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- Europe
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- March 1, 1996
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There was a time when the only business France was interested in minding was its own.
Within the last 10 years that attitude has changed dramatically, and foreign investors are now being welcomed with open arms to a country that has always been able to seduce when it decides to make the effort.
As the fourth largest industrial power in the world and situated in the center of Europe, which is the world's number one market, its location is its greatest attraction. Besides just sitting pretty, it has also developed highly efficient transportation and telecommunications networks that link it directly to seven other European markets--Germany, the United ...