Monthly Archive - December 2009
December 31, 2009
The French model seems fashionable again. Not the sophisticated model who graces the cover of Elle, but the development model of a heavily regulated economy in which a well-oiled state controls markets tightly and massive public and social spending cushions crises. This French model has recently received improbable nods from a ...
December 30, 2009
A French body has struck down a tax on carbon dioxide emissions that was to have gone into effect on January 1, part of President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to slash output of greenhouse gases. The Constitutional Council is the body that ensures new legislation is in accordance with the French constitution. It ...
December 29, 2009
French residents including British expats will no longer be able to avoid paying tax on investment properties in the UK. A tax treaty, due to come into force on 1 January 2010, is closing the capital gains loophole that allows exemption from French tax because the property is located abroad and ...
December 28, 2009
Nicolas Sarkozy, the most pro-American president of France for half a century, has gone cold on Barack Obama, the most popular American leader in France in generations. A year ago Mr Sarkozy was engaged in a tussle among European leaders anxious to be the first to secure a meeting with the ...
