The case may seem banal but it illustrates the new attitude of the French government which appears determined to keep a closer eye on foreign investment in fields that Paris deems to be strategic. Last November, a small high-tech company [.
Around 10 small independent French firms publish software solutions for the processing of strategic information. The sector generates global revenue [...]
The European Union wants to regulate the operations of U.S. rating agencies perceived as a symbol of American domination of the world's financial services industry.
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The Canadian firm Petrokazakhstan which has just offered a job to former Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien can count on a solid network in Almaty. It has already cornered 50% of Kazakhstan's oil products market.
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Several prominent Americans known for their hawkish views, such as former CIA director James Woolsey, are lobbying strongly for alternative forms of energy.
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During a speech in Berlin last month in honor of [...]
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The Americans talk of "negotiations" while the Europeans use the term "discussions."
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The conditions behind last month's sale of the French high-tech firm SAFT to the British investment fund Doughty Hanson could form a precedent with regard France's new "economic defense" policy.
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A lengthy stand-off between the companies that build France's Rafale fighter aircraft and defense minister Michele Alliot-Marie has been resolved in the run-up to the Asian Aerospace show in Singapore on Feb. 24.
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Sprint appears to be having a hard time selling its "governmental Internet" to the U.S. administration. It began pushing the system a year ago under the name "SprintLink Peerless IP."
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Tabled before Congress on Feb. 2, the U.S. defense budget [...]
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Can massively parallel super computers with huge capacity like Japan's [...]
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The French Army will take delivery of its Tiger combat [...]
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The French and Saudi Arabian governments appear to have finally [...]
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The Democrat senator from California, Diane Feinstein, once again called on the Senate on Feb. 5 to overhaul the American [...]
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China came out strongly in favor of regional cooperation in anti-terrorist operations in south east Asia at a meeting in [...]
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A new warning by Washington about a "credible threat" that resulted in the cancellation of six flights between Europe and [...]
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To land contracts for the reconstruction of their country Iraqi firms proceed exactly as everybody else - they hire American [...]
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France's business intelligence professionals are up in arms over a bill passed in March, 2003 regarding the country's "internal security." [...]
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GlobalOptions, a firm founded and run by Neil Livingstone, author of nine books on terrorism (including Inside the PLO, with [...]
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Airline security : A sense of confusion among both Americans and foreign visitors and a rejection of controls designed to improve the security of one and all.
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Nobody talked about it at the time but it was [...]
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The International Chamber of Commerce's commercial crimes service (CCS) is [...]
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The Shephard company is organizing a 7th annual international Search [...]
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The financier and philanthropist George Soros has become the coordinator [...]
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A former chief of staff to Asa Hutchinson, who was [...]
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French Air Force general Francois Beck, head of the Force [...]
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A former officer of Iraq's General Intelligence Service during the [...]
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According to intelligence agencies in the Gulf, the architect of [...]
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Continuing to put pressure on the Saudi government to exercise [...]
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The European Union and Switzerland have just renewed a two [...]
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