Mr Barroso told French radio on Wednesday that France had "lost competitiveness in the last 20 years".
Can it realize its potential and become a hub of North American competitiveness and interconnectedness?
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This prospect doesn't please fans, who fear too much debt could hinder the team's competitiveness.
An important survey rates nations on bribery, cronyism, nepotism and their impact on business competitiveness.
The World Competitiveness Survey rates South Africa worst out of 133 countries for crime.
She and Prince have emphasized that Citi needs to spend to maintain its competitiveness.
And on one issue corporate taxation the pact looks likely to damage rather than enhance competitiveness.
Europe has to address it soon, given growing reservations about its future competitiveness.
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Republicans who believe the party must reboot to restore its competitiveness for the White House.
France has 3 million unemployed people and faces deep economic problems, including a loss of competitiveness.
The company said the move was part of necessary global restructuring aimed at maintaining its competitiveness.
But euro membership also makes it difficult to make fast progress on wage competitiveness.
To bolster its overall competitiveness, Nokia has been focused on improving its smartphone offerings.
Because, like it or not - and Germans don't - competitiveness is inherently relative.
There is one industry in which Japan must retain its global competitiveness, and that is automobiles.
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He is said to be exercised by competitiveness in "the wider British political economy".
The now Lord Heseltine has been asked by the prime minister to do a 'competitiveness audit'.
Private-sector wage cuts needed to restore Greece's competitiveness will make things worse in the short term.
Meanwhile in the past 10 years it has witnessed a 25% decline in competitiveness vis-a-vis Germany.
At a recent government-sponsored conference on Russia's competitiveness, everyone agreed that the system does not work.
Higher German inflation would also help peripheral economies restore their competitiveness without deepening their debt crises.
But a team insider told BBC Sport they had been pleasantly surprised by their competitiveness.
Either way, debt ratios will rise, and the competitiveness gap with Germany will widen.
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European nations figure at the top of most rankings of entrepreneurial freedom and competitiveness.
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That 1996 piece of legislation ended up immensely harming the economy and our competitiveness.
Rather than threatening protectionism, leaders must redirect their energies toward improving competitiveness and opening markets.
In the past, industry could be broadly characterised as lacking ambition, productivity and competitiveness.
He was in the Minneapolis suburb of Maplewood promoting his newly unveiled American competitiveness initiative.
It may also, at least transitionally, have spurred a certain (and rare for India) industrial competitiveness.
Unfair laws like these waste government resources and hurt the competitiveness of U.S. companies.
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