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21:52 09.05.2017
Macron to be tough in Brexit talks, but won't seek to punish UK: economic adviser
France's President-elect Emmanuel Macron will be tough in negotiations over the terms of Britain's departure from the European Union but will not seek to punish Britain, his economic adviser said on Monday.
Jean Pisani-Ferry said that no-one had an interest in a hard Brexit that totally severs ties between Britain and the rest of the European Union once it leaves, saying there was a mutual interest in maintaining economic and security ties.
"At the same time, we have divergent interests on some aspects of the negotiations. So there will be a tough negotiation and he will be tough," Pisani-Ferry told BBC Radio, adding that Macron would not seek retribution against Britain for leaving the EU even as he looked to strengthen the bloc.
"Punish? Certainly not. But he believes that today that Europe is part of the solution to the problems we're facing."
(Reporting by Alistair Smout, editing by Michael Holden)
21:58 09.05.2017
Fantastic article from today's Evening Standard on Macron's plans, France's economic problems and London and Paris - caught up in the situation of Brexit.
Simon Jenkins: Don’t fear the exodus: London and Paris still feed off each other Mr Macron wants to lure French bankers home but that won’t hurt the relationship between the capitals
En garde! Let the fight commence. Can Emmanuel Macron fulfil his ambition to establish Paris as capital of the post-Brexit EU, and give London’s financial giants a bloody nose into the bargain?
Macron hopes to bring home some of the third of a million French who fled his country’s disastrous economy in recent years, most of them now living in London. As he said here on a campaign trip last February, “Banks, talent, researchers, academics, we’ll have you back.”
As a former Rothschild banker he above all he wants to grab some of London’s lucrative financial services to reinforce Paris as already the eurozone’s chief finance centre, stock market and insurance broker. Already French officials in Brussels are lobbying hard to regulate the soon to be “offshore” Britain out of eurozone currency dealing. Their aim is to lure back 20,000 of the City’s bankers and fund managers and associated staff.
The Evening Standard is based deep in Macron country on the fringe of London’s French quarter, where aversion to France’s outgoing President Francois Hollande has been intense. The joke is that the French moved to neighbouring Holland Park to be reminded of their hated leader. Asked if they will return, the answer is still “no, absolutely no”, but when pressed there is a “peut-etre, un jour”.
Much will depend on Macron’s ability to amend France’s restrictive labour laws and onerous wealth taxes, universally cited for driving an exodus of businesses and staff to London that is reminiscent of the 17th-century Huguenots. But much will also depend on whether Paris can lift the cloud of tiredness and depression that I have sensed on recent visits. It lacks that strange attractor of a modern high-tech economy, the lifestyle and fizz that magnetises young talent.
I like asking Londoners which they regard as their second city, New York or Paris. There is always a hesitation. New York is a noisy brass band, its towering canyons filled with a cacophony of novelty and enterprise. It is the other side of London’s coin: the same language, the same shows, the same styles, even the same celebrities moving back and forth. Even if the cabs are rubbish and the streets demonic, it is a city that keeps you on your toes. New York is hot.
Paris in comparison is a soft, je-ne-regrette-rien sort of a place. Its reputation as a forcing house of youthful romance is now challenged by Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam, even Berlin. To its critics it has ossified into a tourist attraction that never changes, dignified but fixed in her ways.
Yet stepping off the Eurostar, even into the squalid Gare du Nord, still evokes that old excitement. Paris remains a city of intense beauty, in its buildings, museums, boulevards, river and language. To stand on the Pont Royal and compare the scene with Waterloo Bridge is painful. London’s public face has become a ravaged, pock-marked mess. No one festoons its bridges with padlocks of love. Paris is still a city that makes people hold hands.
How its appeal will factor in the upcoming war of the eurobond arbitrageurs is too soon to tell. I am not sure how susceptible bankers are to absinthe, Boul Mich and cinq-à-sept. When in the Eighties the Americans at Morgan Stanley had to decide where to locate in Europe — to Paris, Brussels or London — London won for a simple reason. Migrating families wanted somewhere to live that spoke English.
That is beginning to change. Despite the dismissive remarks of Jean-Claude Juncker, English is becoming the language of Europe’s “citizens of nowhere”. It is heard in every street and café. It is used in most continental universities, from Berlin’s Humboldt to Paris’s Sorbonne. English — or at least “bad English” — is the language of business, transport and diplomacy. It forms and re-forms its local dialects. As Stephen Fry puts it: “French is a virgin that needs constant protection, English is a shameless whore.”
Certainly no other EU city can compete with Paris as “capital” of the new Europe. Brussels is provincial and Frankfurt boring. Berlin might pose a challenge, but not yet. Those of us who feel London could do with a dilution of its post-2008 cockiness may welcome some competition, even from Paris. The elegant lady of the Seine, with her nose in the air, would make a good rival to the whore of the Thames, currently pulling faces and sticking out its tongue across the Channel.
I still think London will win any such contest, just as I still regard New York as London’s most “significant other”. Its cultural affinity with London, rooted in a shared language and literature, has been one part of the “special relationship” the US has with Britain that means something. Paris has always been a bit on the side, a mistress among European capitals. London without New York would be a quite different city. It would lose part of itself. If London had no Paris, it would make do with Rome.
Of course it will not come to this. London will lose some of its edge, and Paris will regain some of its self-assurance. There may be fewer patisseries handing out pain au chocolat to expat voters in South Kensington. (Do British voters in Paris get pints of beer?) A few thousand cosmopolitan bankers will up sticks for the Bois de Boulogne, their teenage children protesting. Two million Londoners will continue to visit Paris each year and two million Parisians will return the compliment.
What would be ridiculous is for such rivalry to become beggar-my-neighbour. Paris has just overwhelmingly rejected an anti-EU candidate for president, just as London last year rejected Brexit. Citizens of London and Paris have the same outlook on Europe, the same interest in the softest possible Brexit and in pressing the EU towards reform. The two cities have every reason for staying close. Let rivalry be of the friendliest sort.
> > Подал заявку на вступление в группу.Говорю сразу-если будут какие-то оскорбительные тексты которые относятся ко мне или в т.ч. ко мне-буду сразу нажимать кнопку "Нарушение" ибо это и есть нарушение. И мне насрать если кто-то хочет жить не по правилам,а по понятиям и называть это "Стукачество".Я на таких клал с прицепом.Это гавно надо извести в домашке.Подтверждением прав я или нет будут служить черепа конвентовских модеров.Это единственный способ борьбы с хамством который я вижу. > Может показаться нахальством что подавая заявку я тут же озвучиваю свое условие.Но во-первых оно единственное,во вторых прошу оценить его правомерность.Срача не будет.Будут указания на нарушения с общедоступными комментами (чтобы даже повода не было обвинить в тихушничестве).
> На прямые дебильные фразы типа "Мудак"-оставляю за собой право ответить "От мудака слышу" и заслуженно получить череп тоже. > Еболаша,я не злопамятный.Отомщу-забуду > P.S. Попытка перевести стрелки на Енота была глупа.Мы просто выясняли значение слова "Демагогия".Выясняли достойно и без взаимных оскорблений.Надеюсь пришли к некому общему пониманию нюансов этого слова.Енот,зря извинался))))Ну чтоб уравновесить-извини и ты меня если что не так сказал...
Brilliant.
23:29 09.05.2017
Redhead (Expat) писал(а) в ответ на :
> just as London last year rejected Brexit.
Now, you are talking! No proof necessary this time. :)
01:41 10.05.2017
Последняя новость. Трамп увoлил Директора ФБР (Director FBI James Comey)
Последний раз такое было при Никсоне. Кажется Трамп пошёл на коду.
03:05 10.05.2017
На секундочку, директор ФБР вёл расследование по сговору команды Трампа с Кремлём. Теперь All Hell will break lose.
04:32 10.05.2017
Канада. Оттава. День Победы. 2017. Бессмертный полк.
04:35 10.05.2017
Канада. Оттава. День Победы. 2017. Т 34.
04:36 10.05.2017
Еболаша хотел, чтобы я ему гитариста запостила. Вот канадский гитарист. И вообще, мы там поём ))
04:40 10.05.2017
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04:49 10.05.2017
Сивилла (forecast) писал(а) в ответ на :
> Еболаша хотел, чтобы я ему гитариста запостила. Вот канадский гитарист. И вообще, мы там поём ))
Талантливый парень!
04:56 10.05.2017
Rangers проигрывают Оттаве 3:2 Game on elimination.
