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A few weeks ago we have reported the result of a survey conducted by Capgemini about outsourcing trends in Europe.
The study showed that British and Irish companies outsourced 8 percent of IT operations to offshore partners, as the European average was of only 2 percent. A difference expected to increase by 2008, with the British figure reaching 24 percent, compared to a European average of 5 percent.

Social and cultural issues, were reported as cause of such difference.
What is now happening in France, with the protests across the country caused by a Government measure proposed to decrease the jobless rate, seems to confirm how to be hard bringing changes in such societies.

Newsweek, in “Leaders Only Know How to Say No“- April 3 issue, calls this European attitude as “politics of protest about resisting change”.
It continues:

“It seeks to uphold the status quo. And for Europe as a whole, that is a disaster.”

Going a step forward: “At bottom, Europeans from the founding states have lost the ability to say Oui or Sí to change, reform and modernization. Chirac says Non to opening up Europe’s services industry to greater competition, even though France is Europe’s biggest exporter of services.”

It concludes: “Both countries -France and Italy- need a revolution. But it will not come from students who protest against change, labor leaders who deny modernity—and politicians who only know how to say Non.”

The predictions of slow offshore ousourcing growth for European companies are also based on such scenario.