{"id":58769,"date":"2017-07-03T00:51:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T04:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58769"},"modified":"2017-07-03T00:51:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T04:51:23","slug":"in-new-york-france-promises-english-law-contracts-after-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2017\/in-new-york-france-promises-english-law-contracts-after-brexit.html","title":{"rendered":"In New York, France Promises English-Law Contracts After Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) France will set up a special court to handle English-law cases for financial contracts after Britain leaves the European Union, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday as Paris steps up its charm offensive to attract banks.<\/p>\n<p>In a roadshow in New York where he was meeting Wall Street banks, Le Maire, a conservative poached by new President Emmanuel Macron, said France no longer considered finance an enemy, in a dig to his Socialist predecessor. &#8220;Finance is not the enemy, unemployment is the enemy,&#8221; Le Maire said, referring to former president Francois Hollande who swept to power in 2012 declaring finance his enemy and imposing a now-defunct tax on millionaires.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-france-britain-court-idUSKBN19K2QH\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) France will set up a special court to handle English-law cases for financial contracts after Britain leaves the European Union, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday as Paris steps up its charm offensive to attract banks. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58770,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769\/revisions\/58770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}