Let me also begin by saying that I spent 8 years in Paris in the 1980s; I love no city more to stroll around, to gasp and grasp at archotectural and historic brilliance, to share a glass of wine or cafe or eat brand and cheese; I enjoy the French love of show and artistry- sheer human beauty, aesthetics, seductive impudence - but I dont understand the future that French corporations or government are building where they have a dominant impact on world markets. It's not that we at Club of City and Village fail to ask similar questions of other countries but I guess every European Union mess I can think of where it ruins people's livelihoods on another side of the world is of a sort that just might never have happened if France was taken off the map of the world until other countries had decided what could be best for the world (then invite France to enjoy fabricating the future not the past tears it seems to over indulge everyone else in as if all politics is fiction)

If weare to live and network through a 21st C world, it system interfaces will be one whose mountainous challenges and collaborative treasure hunts cannot afford to compound motre and more wastete. Where we need the truts to map how one sector's waste output can be anothers' input. But France has tool long assumed that wasting butter mountains and wine lakes is a national perogative. This waste spreads like a cancer to every sector that the EU might have taken a sustainable lead in- at least "avant je mamge mon chapeau"- can you tell me one sustainability crisis global sector that the EU or France is a leading globalisation conflict resolver of?