The current President of France, Jacques Chirac, has been around for quite some time. He knows exactly how difficult it is to govern France, since he has also been the Mayor of Paris as well as the Prime Minister of France. Chirac has been through the beginning and end of many regulations. One restriction that was made by Frances was the 35-hour work week, by Lionel Jospin. They thought this would lower their unemployment status. …showed first 75 words of 279 total…

…showed last 75 words of 279 total…different government regulations that affect the retail world. In The tightening of government regulations decreased store openings and have also made retailers more inclined to set up mergers and investments overseas. "The French government limits the number of store openings in the hyper and supermarket categories," as stated in Reaching France's retail food system. They want to make it harder to open stores, so they keep the local business running, instead of big international corporations.