Quote : 22nd October Sarkozy at the EU Parliament

Picture from Yahoo News, Reuters, 2008

"... I do not want European citizens to wake up a few months from now and discover that European companies belong to non-European capital which has bought at the lowest point of the stock exchange ... I would ask that all of us consider how interesting it would be to set up sovereign funds in each of our countries - and maybe these national sovereign funds could now and again coordinate to give an industrial response to the crisis ..."

Nicolas Sarkozy, 21st October 2008, European Parliament