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The reason that we are not there yet isn't because France does not wish it, it is because there are still certain European partners who are hesitant.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Thank you to the French customs officers who are enforcing the European Union's sanctions against those close to the Russian government.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
My feeling about all the meetings we had in Washington, and during these IMF meetings, is that we are beyond COVID, even if we have to monitor the situation, even if there remains some decisions to be taken on vaccination, especially for the poorest countries, now we are beyond COVID.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Even if we have to monitor the situation, even if there remains some decisions to be taken on vaccination, especially for the poorest countries, now we are beyond COVID.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
France will substantially increase its direct exposure to Egypt, becoming the first counter-party for government to government loans.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I am convinced that we will achieve 5% growth in 2021 and that we will return at the start of 2022 to the same level of economic activity that we had before the crisis.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
We are totally determined to stop all export guarantees financing fossil fuels while taking into account each country’s industrial specifics and the impact on jobs.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Carrefour is a very strong company and I fully trust Carrefour to improve its model and to develop a new distribution model, but having Carrefour being bought by a foreign company would be a major difficulty for all of us.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I am really quite confident that the second part of 2021 will be good for the French economy.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
If there are American sanctions against the French decision, which ... is the application of French law, we will immediately seek a riposte at the European level.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I really hope this new Biden administration will mean a new start in the relationship between Europe and the United States — and one possibility of marking this new start would be to get a consensus at the OECD level by the beginning of 2021.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's very clear, the United States don't want a digital tax (deal) at the OECD. So they are making obstacles that prevent us from reaching an agreement even though the technical work is done.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
If the U.S. blockage is confirmed by year end, we are counting on the European Union to make a formal proposal to tax digital activities in the first quarter of 2021.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
What is this way of treating the allies of the The United States, including United Kingdom, the Spanish, the Italians, and us the French, by systematically threatening us with sanctions ?
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The European Recovery Fund must allow us to provide support to the aerospace industry and its 3,000 subcontractors, the emergency for me is to soften the shock, but also to keep financing innovation and investment.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
For the first tine there is wide consensus among the G20 members on the necessity of having a new international taxation system, we have to address the issue of digital companies making profits in many countries without any physical presence, which means without paying the due level of taxes.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There is a consensus to build a solution by the end of 2020, lets be clear - either we have at the end of 2020 an international solution... clearly in the interest of all countries and digital companies, or there is no solution and ... then it will be up the national taxes to enter into force.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have to address the issue of digital companies making profits in many countries without any physical presence, which means without paying the due level of taxes.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
And we also have to address the key question of minimum taxation and the risk of having a race to the bottom on taxation.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Lets be clear - either we have at the end of 2020 an international solution... clearly in the interest of all countries and digital companies, or there is no solution and ... then it will be up the national taxes to enter into force.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It would be far better to have an international framework for everybody, so we have to build something different and that's exactly what we want to do during 2020, by building on the extremely good work being done( at the OECD).
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Everything is on the table, we just have to decide if we want to avoid a loophole in the international taxation system or have many national solutions that would be detrimental to all of us.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We are ready to make steps toward the United States, and we have already proposed a certain number of measures. We hope to reach a resolution by Wednesday.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I had a long talk with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. We have decided to step up efforts to try and find a compromise, within the OECD, on digital tax, we gave each other precisely 15 days, until our next meeting, which is planned on the sidelines of Davos at the end of January.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
A WTO reform is one of France's top priorities. Because it's better to solve trade issues within a multilateral body than in a bilateral way, france is ready to support all efforts allowing a jump-start of WTO reform negotiations and the solving of the problems affecting its dispute settlement body.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is a more general issue between the United States and Europe.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If the Americans decide to go ahead and impose sanctions against the digital tax ... in this case we would retaliate, if there were to be sanctions, and it is a possibility that we will take sanctions, we would immediately contact the WTO (World Trade Organization).
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In case of new American sanctions, the European Union would be ready to riposte.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is not what one would expect from an ally, it is not what one would expect from the United States.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I can confirm the next CEO has not yet been chosen. The only indication I can give you is that I wish it is a professional of the car industry because amid the radical transformation of the sector, one needs professionals.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is not good that banks, be them German, Italian, French or Spanish, are too exposed to the sovereign debt of their country.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It gives us critical size to face the dual challenges of autonomous vehicles and electric cars.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We want to establish a safe and sovereign European data infrastructure, including data warehouses, data pooling and develop data interoperability.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's incomprehensible that carbon emissions targets were set for cars and not for airplanes and ships. We propose that work is done on a European tax on airplane and ship fuel.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Based on these results, we want to build a trustworthy cloud to store our companies' most sensitive data.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If the American administration rejects the hand that has been held out by France and the European Union, we are preparing ourselves to react with sanctions.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We encourage European central banks to accelerate work on issues around possible public digital currency solutions.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
All these concerns about Libra are serious. I therefore want to say with plenty of clarity: in these conditions we cannot authorize the development of Libra on European soil.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
All these concerns about Libra are serious. I therefore want to say with plenty of clarity: in these conditions we cannot authorise the development of Libra on European soil.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's in our interest to have a fair digital tax, please do not mix the two issues. The key question now is how we can we get consensus on fair taxation of digital activities.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We cannot accept private companies issuing their own currencies without democratic control.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The sovereignty of nations cannot be jeopardised, the overall mood around the table was clearly one of important concerns about the recent Libra announcements, and a shared view that action is needed urgently.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If we don't agree at the G7 level on the broad principles for taxing digital companies today or tomorrow, then quite frankly it will be complicated to find among 129 countries at the OECD.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The red line for us is that Libra must not transform into a sovereign currency.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
France is a sovereign nation and will continue of course to decide as a sovereign nation on all taxation issues, so let's work during the G7... on that key question of digital taxation because this is for us the best way to fix this issue.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
These digital giants are turning into private states – states over which citizens have no control and where democracy has no place, we cannot let companies, which are serving private interests, gather all the attributes of sovereign states. We must act.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Between allies we can and should solve our disputes not by threats but through other ways, france is sovereign country, its decisions on tax matters are sovereign and will continue to be sovereign.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We are merely re-establishing fiscal justice. We want to create taxation for the 21st century that is fair and efficient, we want to impose on these new business models the same rules that apply to all other economic activities.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
France is a sovereign country, its decisions on tax matters are sovereign and will continue to be sovereign.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There are other ways between allies to solve our differences, there is no need for threats, we can solve our differences through negotiations and through discussions.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We need to make sure that there's no risk for the user, it's our role as a state to protect consumers... It's what at stake in the 21st century.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's our role as a state to protect consumers... It's what at stake in the 21st century.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We simply asked for five extra days. Five additional days seems entirely reasonable to me, fiat withdrew its offer, as it was entitled to do. But believe me, the state will never react under pressure.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Looking at the past 20 years, we see that this quality of Renault has been reinforced by its partnership with Nissan, therefore it is essential not only to preserve, but to strengthen this alliance. That has always been the strategy of the state and it remains the strategy of the state as shareholder.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's a long-term horizon. I think for now, it's wise to stick to the short and medium term.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We can reduce the state's stake in Renault's capital. This is not a problem as long as, at the end of the process, we have a more solid auto sector and a more solid alliance between the two great car manufacturers Nissan and Renault.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We cannot explain to a population that they should pay their taxes when certain companies do not because they shift their profits to low-tax jurisdictions.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I'm not sure that we don't have a choice. There are other operators that offer solutions and we are going to assess that in the coming months, i met the president of Ericsson and he presented technological options... this idea that there is only Huawei and all the other firms are so far behind needs to be checked and can be questioned.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We will take decisions based on technological interest and the strategic security of our networks.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I met the president of Ericsson and he presented technological options... this idea that there is only Huawei and all the other firms are so far behind needs to be checked and can be questioned.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Huawei-Google affair is quite rightly making so much noise because Google has restricted Huawei of access to technology on Android and this illustrates the clearest example of this technological war.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We want to carry out a careful control of this 5G deployment ... without designating an operator as unwelcome in France.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If the American administration decided to also impose a regime of sanctions on investments in Cuba, in contravention of what has been decided for several years now by our American allies, we would react. Europe would also react and is ready to also impose sanctions at our end.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I will propose to my European partners that we set up a single regulatory framework on crypto-assets inspired by the French experience, our model is the right one.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I am not certain that political interventions are necessarily the best way to help.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I call on our American friends and partners to step up work at the OECD so that we can reach as quickly as possibly - in 2020 I hope - an international solution.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The best is to reach a consensus at the OECD because once there is an international tax, France will withdraw its tax at the national level.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Carlos Ghosn is being released. He is a French citizen. He will be able to defend himself with greater ease. So much, the better, but my responsibility as finance and economy minister is to make sure that hundreds of thousands of jobs at Renault and at the Renault-Nissan alliance are protected.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
A taxation system for the 21st century has to built on what has value today, and that is data.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think we can reach a new deal and a common European position at the OECD, with the European Commission position, (and) the support of the United States, we can get a digital tax proposed at the international level, at the OECD, by the end of 2019.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Two years ago nobody wanted to tax the digital firms, it was us the French who put the subject on the table out of concern for fiscal fairness, justice and efficiency.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is useless to produce weapons through improved cooperation between France and Germany if we are unable to export them, if you want to be competitive and efficient, we need to be able to export to countries outside Europe.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If you want to be competitive and efficient, we need to be able to export to countries outside Europe.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Our hope is that we will come to an agreement with Germany in this crucial point.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
You can't be out of the EU and getting all the benefits of the single market, that is a clear red line for France.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We will not revise our growth forecast for 2019. We think we will have growth of around 1.7 percent.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We will put on the table the idea of a fair taxation of Internet giants.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There is a fair agreement that paves the way for fair Brexit, we are open for clarifications, but do not want to reopen the deal... If the British are asking for more delay, we have to understand what for?
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We made a compromise offer to Germany in December and I am convinced that a deal is within arm's reach between now and the end of March. With the European elections just a few months away, our citizens would find it incomprehensible if we gave up on this.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The French state, as shareholder, will have its say. What I can tell you, is that Jean-Dominique Senard has a renowned competence with regards to the automobile industry, at Michelin, he showed his capacity to succeed at the head of a large, industrial company, and he has an idea of the social responsibilities of a company to which I am strongly attached.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I want to know who these payments were made to, whether they were disclosed, whether they correspond to work carried out and whether the Renault board and shareholders were informed about them.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The conditions have not been met for me to go to Riyadh, the facts are serious and we want to know the truth.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We have just received Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's response: it's negative.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If tomorrow there is an increase in tariffs, like in the car industry, our reaction should be united and strong to show that Europe is a united and sovereign power, the question is no longer whether or not there will be a trade war, the war has already started.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Let it be known that if we are attacked we will react collectively and we will react firmly.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Believe me, we will tax the digital giants by the end of 2018 or at the latest in early 2019 because it's not only a question of justice but of sovereignty.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If tomorrow there is an increase in tariffs, like in the car industry, including on cars, our reaction should be united and strong to show that Europe is a united and sovereign power, the question is no longer whether or not there will be a trade war, the war has already started.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This is the moment of truth for the Franco-German relationship, the hour of reckoning for the future of the euro zone, either in the next few hours the president and the chancellor reach an agreement and accomplish a significant step in strengthening the euro zone. Or they are unable to and we will return, and I don't hesitate to say so, to turbulent times for the euro zone and for the European Union more widely.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Unfortunately, we are going to have a G6 plus-one with United States alone against everyone and running the risk of economic destabilization.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Unfortunately we are going to have a G6 plus one with United States alone against everyone and running the risk of economic destabilization.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's entirely up to U.S authorities whether they want to enter into a trade conflict with their biggest partner, Europe.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Are we going to allow the United States to be the economic policeman of the world? The answer is no, strengthening that 1996 rule ... would allow us to take charge ourselves of the cost of any potential sanctions paid by firms, which could therefore be paid for on their behalf by the European Union.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Are we going to allow the United States to be the economic policeman of the world? The answer is no.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If Air France does not make efforts to become more competitive, allowing this flagship to be at the same level at Lufthansa and other airline companies, Air France will disappear, we're minority shareholders ... those that think that whatever happens the state will come to Air France's rescue and soak up Air France's losses are mistaken.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We're minority shareholders ... those that think that whatever happens the state will come to Air France's rescue and soak up Air France's losses are mistaken.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The United States needs to know that if it goes ahead with these measures, they will meet with a strong, coordinated and united response from the European Union.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I can tell you that the times we live in are not for the weak, since we have to deal with Mr Putin, Mr Trump or Mr Erdogan, it's time for Europe to pull itself together and defend its own interests, to make Google, Amazon and Facebook pay the taxes they owe in Europe.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Since we have to deal with Mr Putin, Mr Trump or Mr Erdogan, it's time for Europe to pull itself together and defend its own interests, to make Google, Amazon and Facebook pay the taxes they owe in Europe.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Yes, I am running for next president of the French Republic.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
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