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Listed below are comments made by Matthieu123 between Wednesday, 17th December 2008 and Tuesday, 24th March 2009.

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Euro-Gordon steps into line 7:32pm on 24 Mar 2009 Last week the Economist blog forecast just the opposite: that the UK would side with the US, against the "French-German axis", for a strong stimulus plan and little regulation, to protect the City of a fair competition with the Paris and Frankfurt stock exchanges. He was predicting a big storm for the G20 summit.

I am impatient to see this summit happen.
France throws spanner in car works 08:46am on 24 Mar 2009 #49, Buzet23

If you jsut bother reading the Economist blog, you will see them exactly confirm my previous post

Unfortunately I can't add the link, otherwise I would get censored.
Could Greece laser the euro? 08:44am on 24 Mar 2009 Mark Mardell day-dreaming...
Tories look for new partners 08:42am on 24 Mar 2009 This illustrates how isolated the British views are in Europe. A party that represents about half of the country cannot find partners in 7 countries out of 26.

And UK will be even more isolated when the Conservative Party gets to power.
France throws spanner in car works 06:56am on 21 Mar 2009 Can we stay on topic and get real here for a minute?

- Renault is facing an increase in sales of small cars. As its main factory specialised in these cars is over capacity, they decide to produce a few in the factory where they last produced it, that happens to be located in France
- A junior minister claims Renault is "relocalising" production
- He is then contradicted by more senior ministers and Sarkozy himself
- Later on, senior EU officials as well as the Slovenian prime minister himself confirm that no job has been moved.

All in all, we have a minister who said something stupid. the whole issue was corrected in about 3 hours.

I don't see the problem here. The post and the related comments have no fact to substantiate them.
France throws spanner in car works 9:54pm on 20 Mar 2009 Can we all get real here?

What happens is that Renault needs to increase the production of some smaller models (clio and twingo). the factory usually used for it, in Slovenia, is at full capacity.

In order to meet the increase in demand (largely due to state support to sales of ALL cars), Renault is reactivating a production line that use to do Clio a few months back, and therefore is the most suited for a quick start. As the was some work reduction recently put in place, it won't create any new job.
See the whole story (in French)
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Granted, the minister who made the declaration was an idiot. But he was contradicted in a few hours by Renault officials, more senior government members, Sarkozy himself, the European Commission and the Slovenian president himself.

I am a bit disappointed at the overhurried reaction of this blogger. I usually like this blog, but now it seems like a Daily Telegraph comment. Or was the author in a hurry to catch a plane home and couldn't wait for more information?

I won't make any comment on the comments themselves, many of them are to laugh out loud. I hope they are not representative of the UK opinion though, otherwise it would be better for all that the UK leave the EU.
Rudd's green credentials on the line 09:50am on 17 Dec 2008 It is surprising that Kevin Rudd set targets that will look paltry in contrast with the ambition expressed by Obama. I must say it is pretty disappointing.

However, you must consider that Australians are pretty backward in regards to global warming. They have been in line with the Bush administration for 8 years under PM Howard. Now that Kevin Rudd has set very modest targets, a Liberal senator came with the argument that "carbon dioxyd is essential to life" and "the Earth is actually cooling since 1998" !!!

This is due to having a First World society, but a Third World economy, where all revolves around mining and farming. Developing new technologies such as green energy is not in the country's culture
Labour MEPs to defeat Brown? 09:38am on 17 Dec 2008 Do you really think that applying a rule that works well for 26 countries will make the 27th collapse altogether? That is lacking trust in the British economy...

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