{"id":6970,"date":"2008-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"sarkozy-vows-to-defend-france-against-wealth-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2008\/sarkozy-vows-to-defend-france-against-wealth-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Sarkozy vows to defend France against wealth funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Tuesday to protect French businesses from sovereign wealth funds and private speculators and urged a state bank to roll up its sleeves and help France defend its industrial interests.       <\/p>\n<p>Sarkozy&#8217;s appeal came months after a national row over the independence of the state-owned Caisse des Depots et Consignations, which manages state pensions and has answered directly to France&#8217;s parliament since the aftermath of Napoleon.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There is no question of France remaining unable to react in the face of a rise in the power of extremely aggressive sovereign funds which only follow economic logic,&quot; Sarkozy said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;France must protect its companies and give them the means to develop and defend themselves. I want the CDC to be the instrument of this policy of defending and promoting the essential economic interests of the nation,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/213688215\" \/><br \/>  <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/213688215\/idUKNOA93430220080109\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Tuesday to protect French businesses from sovereign wealth funds and private speculators and urged a state bank to roll up its sleeves and help France defend its industrial interests. Sarkozy&#8217;s appeal came months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}