Atlanta-based agricultural equipment giant AGCO Corp. is putting €40 million (about $44.3 million) more into its factory complex in Beauvais, France, the home of its Massey Ferguson brand. Martin Richenhagen, chairman, president and CEO of AGCO, announced ahead of the Choose France summit led by French President Emmanuel Macron that AGCO would make good on a […]
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Diplomatic Digest: Turnover in Atlanta’s Consular Corps During 2019
Atlanta’s diplomatic wheel kept spinning in 2019, with new arrivals in two key postings, a handover of the deanship and the addition of yet another country to the now 70-plus that have representation here. Shane Stephens, consul general of Ireland, earlier this year became the longest-serving member of the corps, succeeding Peru’s Miguel Aleman in the deanship, which […]
Books 2019: Common Humanity Amid the Tragedy of World War II
Book: All the Light We Cannot See Author: Anthony Doerr Review by: William De Baets, Consul General of Belgium to the Southeast U.S. My wife gave me Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See for my birthday last June. She knows I like stories about life during World War II, and I must say that her […]
Merger With Fiat Creates Questions for French Auto Maker’s Atlanta Presence
When Groupe PSA was looking for a base in the U.S., Atlanta won the French automaker’s heart with its blend of automotive executive muscle and skilled tech workers to help navigate an industry in the midst of a digital transformation. Then-Gov. Nathan Deal even led a delegation to the company’s Paris headquarters to secure yet […]
Crystal Peach Awards Celebrate French Innovations, Partnerships in Atlanta
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 […]
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 […]
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