"It is an effort to stimulate activity at a time when unemployment is rising towards 11 per cent of the workforce and the economy is struggling to recover from recession.
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The government is placing as much emphasis on helping already-established technologies and projects to gain traction via state co-ordination, regulation and public contracts. (Moi ici: Eheheh, bonne chance!)
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The 34 sectors selected include existing projects by EADS, the aerospace group, to produce electric powered aircraft; by PSA Peugeot Citroën to produce a car that consumes less than two litres of fuel every 100km; and a new generation of high-speed trains that travel at up to 350km an hour.
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Other sectors (Moi ici: Como se houvessem sctores obsoletos... como se houvessem sectores condenados... há sim estratégias obsoletas) covered include “intelligent” textiles, cloud computing and cyber security.
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Echoing a longstanding French refrain, Mr Hollande called on the EU to change its competition doctrine to allow companies to merge more easily to “promote European champions” (Moi ici: Nós já ouvimos acerca deste soundbyte) and to adopt a trade policy “worthy of the name, to combat vigorously unfair trade practices, both internal and external”.
Trechos retirados de "France unveils sweeping plan to revive flagging industrial base"
