But activity index of the Chicago Fed from 0This is the case of Dexia negotiates to 8But for SFR it is that of a pilot projectWe cannot let pass it storm Pascale cotton TCRCSales hammered by the leaders of the AllianceThis is what we started to do with the Pitot probesOnly two exceptions would be made to this flat taxHis activity as curator taught him cautionLong he thinks that a decade is a maximumThe message of Louis Gallois was not relayedIf foreign companies with offices in France have sometimes been the framework of hard social conflicts in recent weeks (Continental, Caterpillar...), the France will not abandon this important source of activity. In the second quarter, foreign investments in France totalled 23.3 billion euros, or almost as much as in the second quarter last year (-3,3), indicate the France Bank figures released last week. But these data are almost impossible to interpret, because of the importance of financial flows between subsidiaries of the same group, flow that the Bank of France retraitera that end of the year ("Les Echos" of June 12). In the meantime, the French Agency for international investments (Afii), the public agency responsible for selling the France site to foreigners, believes that implementation projects are resistant to the crisis (see below). The regional development agencies, trying to attract business to their geographic area, watching their side of the contrasting situations.
D'Azur, slows the number of filed cases and decisions are made more difficult. On the Côte d'Azur, which hosts mainly engineers and researchers, foreign investment increased from 8 projects reach (for 156 jobs) in the first half of 2008 to 6 (105 jobs) this year. A finding shared in Normandy, where investors seem more hesitant to make their decision, despite an increase in the number of cases filed. Midi-Pyrénées, which more than half of the 2008 projects were aeronautics, the regional agency saw the volume of received investments "clearly lower" in the first half of 2009.
Smaller projects
The Poitou-Charentes and Pays de la Loire, there was a decline in the number of projects, of the order of 20 to 30 over the same period in 2008, which resulted in a change of method: "It has more pugnacity as soon as it is a project," explains Jean-Luc Firmin, Director of the Agency Invest in Western France - West Atlantic. In parallel, he observes, records of foreign companies are also now more unsuccessful. And, in the end, the realization is of same magnitude than in previous years. The region also offers projects, citing a tender on a plan of installing solar panels, for which "the marks of interest are strong."
Renewable energy have also the wind, notes on several areas. "We prefer investing successfully in photovoltaics or isolation as a bad investment in aeronautics or nuclear power, are not in phase with the local skills", says the Director of the Agency of Franche-Comté.
In the Languedoc-Roussillon, a photovoltaic project must create 30 jobs this year. The region is pleased to have somewhat spared by the crisis, since the current trend is that of 2008. A same finding in Rhône-Alpes, where there is not "notorious drop since January. "Working hard to stay the course", provides the Director of the international settlements, Aymeric de Mollerat.
The second region in terms of establishment of foreign companies, highlights its fairly diversified economy. However, for several years, the trend is downward in terms of size of investment. Trend also observed in Franche-Comté, where the projects are between 10 and 20 jobs on average. In other regions, such as the Auvergne, were "pleasant surprise". Thus, since January of this year, 500 creations and excluding of employment by foreign investment were announced ahead 100 jobs counted in 2008.