Atlanta is becoming a bona fide proving ground for French innovations accessing the U.S. market, bolstered by an array of longstanding city partnerships. That was the message of the French-American Chamber of Commerce’s 15th annual Crystal Peach Awards celebrating investment links between the Southeast U.S. and France. Awardees represented future-facing investments— like the $3 million cybersecurity center opened […]
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European Consulates Team Up for Atlanta Pride March
For the first time, the consulates of the European Union in Atlanta will march together at the Atlanta Pride Festival Oct. 13. The diplomatic offices of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland and the Netherlands banded together to support the 49th annual march, which they said shows the city’s long history of fighting against discrimination of […]
French Council of Economic Advisors Taps New Southeast Member
A group of executives and entrepreneurs appointed by the French government to boost the country’s economic profile in the Southeast has named its latest member. Claire Collobert Angelle, while being a familiar name to many in the city’s international community, is the newest face among the Conseillers du Commerce extérieur de la France, a global network […]
Commentary: Fixing the Labor Policies Behind France’s Yellow Vest Protests
Editor’s note: This guest commentary was written by Charles R. Hankla, an associate professor of political science at Georgia State University who received his doctorate in 2005 from Emory University and holds degrees from Georgetown University and the London School of Economics. The piece is set to appear as a Farsi translation in an Iranian magazine but is published in […]
Solidarity Selfies: Send in Photos to Show Atlanta Support for Notre Dame Cathedral
Global Atlanta is asking local friends of France to send in selfies at Notre Dame or their best photos of the famed cathedral to show our community’s solidarity with the French people at this time of collective cultural shock and loss. Atlanta and France have a long history of being connected through art, architecture, faith […]
Millennium Gate’s French Flag Hung in Solidarity With Notre Dame Cathedral
When the first fire alarm at Notre Dame Cathedral went off at 6:20 p.m., April 15, Paris time, French Consul General Louis de Corail was huddled with France’s eight honorary consuls in a meeting shortly after noon at the Atlanta consulate in Buckhead. The honorary consuls represented cities throughout the Southeast and were in Atlanta […]
Diplomats Learn How Georgia Tech’s Coda Building Orchestrates Innovation
Atlanta’s Consular Corps got a preview tour March 20 of the $355 million Coda building, the mother-of-all mixed-used developments in Midtown’s Technology Square. The diplomats visited while the finishing touches were being made on the 645,000 square feet of office space and the 22,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space to be housed by […]
Theater of Dreams Portrays Alex Dumas, the Black General Who Embodied Humanist Ideals
Military commanders know that advantages of controlling “the high ground,” which offers better visibility over a battlefield. But can the same be said of possessing the moral high ground? This question is at the heart of the play “Black Code: The Adventures of the First Count of Monte Cristo,” which is being produced by the […]
Peugeot Set to Return to U.S. and Canada, but Groupe PSA in ‘No Hurry’ to Expand From Atlanta Base
France’s Groupe PSA announced this week that it has chosen to bring the Peugeot brand back to the U.S. and Canada as part of a 10-year global expansion plan. The Paris-based group, which made waves locally in 2017 by announcing it had chosen Atlanta for its North American headquarters, sold Peugeot cars in the U.S. before exiting the […]
EU’s Quiet Message to Trump: European Ties Support 237,000 Jobs in Georgia
As President Donald Trump threatens to “tariff the hell out of” Europe in advance of upcoming negotiations, the EU is taking a quieter tack toward showing how playing hardball on trade could be problematic for the U.S. This month the EU Mission to the U.S. in Washington released a state-by-state analysis of the two-way trading […]
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