France warned European commissioners yesterday (31 August) that it will crack down on financial bets made in commodities markets to prevent speculative price movements.
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EurActiv on 1st Sep 2010 (via euractiv.com)
Nicolas Sarkozy says by taking the lead, France will provide a ‘shock’ to push other European nations into signing up to a full-blown tax covering the gamut of financial transactions
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FT on 30th Jan 2012 (via ft.com)
September will be a hot month in Brussels for the financial services sector, as the EU prepares to nominate its new internal market commissioner and examine new proposed rules on hedge funds amid rivalries between the UK, France and Germany over financial regulation. EurActiv's network in France and Germany contributed to this report.
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EurActiv on 31st Jul 2009 (via euractiv.com)
Germany and France have appealed to the Belgian EU Presidency to discuss the introduction of a financial transactions tax in the EU at an informal meeting of finance ministers in Brussels, which kicks off today (12 July).
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EurActiv on 12th Jul 2010 (via euractiv.com)
Nicolas Sarkozy this week faces the first mass-protests over his handling of the financial crisis and reforms as unions prepare to paralyse France in a general strike. It is clear that the wearied people of France are not going to sit back and silently take being pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed and numbered like the British, but are opting for the Icelandic solution, direct act...
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PJCJournal on 28th Jan 2009 (via thejournal.parker-joseph.co.uk)
France faces questions over economy, George Osborne warns, amid fears that financial crisis in eurozone is poised to spread.
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Telegraph on 14th Nov 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
"Strikingly, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and Peer Steinbrück, the German finance minister, have both announced the end of Anglo-American financial supremacy. It is not clear what their prediction is based upon. I found this : France seeks €300bn rescue fund for Europe Patrick Hosking Live: 24 hours of the Global Economy France heaped pressure on Gordon Brown last night by floa...
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ATangledWeb on 2nd Oct 2008 (via atangledweb.squarespace.com)
France secures oversight of the European Union's banking and financial services policy, after a long political dog-fight which sees it take the key internal market portfolio in the next European Commission
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FT on 27th Nov 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Chairmanships of Europe's financial watchdogs are expected to go to officials of EU countries with smaller financial centres, rather than the UK, France or Germany
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FT on 12th Jan 2011 (via ft.com)
France formally called Thursday an exceptional weekend summit to hash a common EU response to the spreading U.S. financial crisis.
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InternationalHeraldTribune on 2nd Oct 2008 (via iht.com)
The Prime Minister added: “In the spirit of this healthy competition with France… If France goes for a financial transactions tax, then the door will be open and we will be able to welcome many French banks to the United Kingdom and we’ll expand our economy that way.” “If France wants to be so mindbogglingly
