Lord Mandelson, UK business secretary, is among those who have been trying to find out. The former European Union trade commissioner visited Paris this year in search of inspiration for a new industrial strategy for Britain. “We don’t have the same strategic goals and objective-setting by government,” he told the Financial Times, expressing interest in the incentives France offered and the way it organised its supply chain. Officials from the US, Australia and a host of other countries have also travelled to Paris in recent weeks in search of answers to their industrial dilemmas.
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