{"id":10835,"date":"2026-01-09T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10835"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:34:32","slug":"forbes-brings-scotland-closer-to-paris-region-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10835","title":{"rendered":"Forbes brings Scotland closer to Paris region \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kate-Forbes-at-EFI-.png\" alt=\"Kate Forbes\" class=\"wp-image-175977 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kate-Forbes-at-EFI-.png\" alt=\"Kate Forbes\" class=\"wp-image-175977 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kate-Forbes-at-EFI-.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kate-Forbes-at-EFI--300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kate-Forbes-at-EFI--768x560.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kate-Forbes-at-EFI--600x438.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Kate Forbes: significant partnership (pic: Terry Murden \/ DB Media Services)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Kate Forbes, the Deputy First Minister, will today sign an agreement with the Greater Paris Region that aims to boost business opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A memorandum of understating between the Scottish Government and \u00cele-de-France creates a framework for closer economic ties, trade missions and business delegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The agreement focuses on five key areas of boosting trade and innovation, tackling climate change, expanding cultural exchange, deepening university research links, and promoting equality and fighting discrimination against women and girls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Potential projects include collaboration on the production of green energy, identifying business opportunities and organising reciprocal trade missions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Universities, research centres and the creative sectors in Scotland and Greater Paris will be encouraged to collaborate, while joint initiatives could help tackle the gender pay gap and combat violence against women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ms Forbes, who will be joined by the President of the \u00cele-de-France Region Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse for the signing ceremony, said: \u201cGreater Paris is home to more than 12 million people and one of Europe\u2019s most dynamic economies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThis significant partnership will focus the historic relationship between Scotland and France on modern economic priorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cScotland\u2019s unique strengths, expertise and innovation are recognised around the world. By promoting closer relationships at a government level we can create opportunities for businesses and researchers to expand their markets, develop new collaborations and drive growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Madame P\u00e9cresse described the partnership as \u201cvaluable, concrete, and forward-looking\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She added: \u201cDuring my visit to Edinburgh in 2022, we confirmed our shared determination to work together in strategic sectors, particularly in terms of combating climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWith this signing, we will strengthen our economic, academic and cultural ties, carry out joint projects in favour of the climate and develop synergies between our respective economic development agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Forbes #brings #Scotland #closer #Paris #region #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Forbes: significant partn&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[4512,266,1750,265,8031,8029,8032,6203,1642,8030],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}