Mais oui, there’s almost nothing as amusing as listening to a French President lecturing the United States about protectionism!
Angry at what he saw as the Pentagon rigging a tanker aircraft deal in favor of the US supplier Boeing, and yes, they certainly did so at the behest of the US Congress, M. Sarkozy puts it: “In life there is what you say and then there is what you do.”
Of course, if it’s a European company trying to compete in France against the French electric company, you can bet your last freedom fry that M. Sarkozy will say: “Non!”
Protectionism, whether of the professional classes by the United States or of the farming classes by the US and the EU, is a fact of life.
Despite what the Know Nothing Party may believe, there’s no such thing as free trade.
Gorilla says: “Comme M. Sarkozy, je suis un pot qui veut être libre!”
