When French entrepreneurs move to Berlin and London to work on their companies you know you have a problem.

France's capital gain taxes are a real issue, and even the new, changed and improved rates will not do much to counteract this.

And that's just one of the things working against French entrepreneurs, the various employment laws don't help a whole lot either.

It would be fair to class France as start-up hostile at the present date, but the situation is improving. Which gives me all the more respect for those French entrepreneurs that succeed.