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From Our Own Correspondent: The Power of the Piston

05/05/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - The Essential, From Our Own Correspondent: The Power of the Piston

How the right personal connections in France can cut through the red tape of bureaucracy

How the right personal connections in France can cut through the red tape of bureaucracy.

Hugh Schofield has lived in Paris for a long time - but until recently he felt like a complete outsider to the game of getting things done. In negotiating complex bureaucracy, local politics or diplomatic challenges, it felt as though everyone else was playing by different rules - and possibly using their personal connections to get on an inside track. But more recently he has learned how to use his own personal network, and get wheels turning...

(Photo: A view of the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament. Credit: Franck Prevel/Getty Images)

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