France: According to the provision Banque de France statistics, direct foreign investments (FDI) fell 36% to 36.6 billion EUR in France in 2003. France is apparently now no longer the fourth largest host country of FDI, behind the United States, Luxembourg and China, having been second in 2002 with 56.8 billion EUR. French foreign investments also fell, by 26% to 48.6 billion EUR. The same statistics show that only Belgium, the United Kingdom and the United States have made progress, as...