France takes the lead over Germany as Europe's top place for business
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French business leaders used to admire the German economic model, but now German bosses praise Macron's pro-business reforms in France.
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France has attracted high levels of foreign investment and is winning Europe's race to lure financial services from post-Brexit Britain.
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Germany struggles with its dysfunctional ruling coalition and economic woes from dependence on Russian gas and Chinese exports.
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France has reinvented dirigiste planning - facilitating private investment instead of controlling things.
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Bpifrance, France's public investment bank, fosters entrepreneurship instead of propping up ailing firms, contrasting with Germany's more indirect support.