He arrived at Marseille, France, and met one of his brothers in Orléans (Indre).

In cooperation with WAIPA, three regional training workshops were organized, in which a number of African countries actively participated, on cluster creation and development in Botswana, investor servicing and aftercare in Algeria, and strategic marketing in Marseille.

Workers, employers and governments must engage in dialogue to put in place the social policies which ensure that green jobs are decent jobs. Only in this way can the poor and the jobless from Marseille to Mumbai and Sao Paulo to Shanghai be optimistic that creating an environmentally sustainable world will also deliver decent, environmentally sustainable work.

A unique feature of today s debate is its cohort of public intellectuals like Jacques Marseille, Nicolas Baverez, Elie Cohen, and Stephane Rozes, none of whom subscribe to the hoary notion of French uniqueness (the so called exception française ). Their thinking is at the forefront of a widening recognition that France must face the world s challenges as they really are, not as the French want them to be.