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France’s new Finance minister, Christine Lagarde, 51, charmed an audience of international executives at Paris Europlace, an annual financial summit, in early July by intermittently switching between French and fluent English, “for the FT types who cannot understand French,” she said. Later, mimicking the typical American’s view of the French work environment, Lagarde joked, “Who are these lazy people who cannot work 35 hours a week when we are working 70?”

在她的演讲中，她提倡减税，以鼓励更长的时间，更容易受到工作合同，并成立了一个专业委员会，该委员会将简化监管并使巴黎与伦敦更具竞争力。她表示希望这样的政策能够将“脑部排水”带回去。

拉加尔德（Lagarde）对英语的轻松习惯来自多年的实践。她于1981年加入美国律师事务所贝克和麦肯齐的巴黎办公室，然后于1999年移居芝加哥，成为其全球执行委员会的主席。