[patrickg_zill]

Of these companies how many are competitive with American business?

[arcticbull]

I forgot how America's man-only board driven companies are the only competitive ones in the world :P Thanks for reminding me?

[patrickg_zill]

It's a simple question. Are you able to answer it?

A Danish state owned power company or some other local to EU, protected company, doesn't really have any effect on the world market, does it? It does not have anything to offer in terms of innovation or management skills.

[NeedMoreTea]

Like BASF, Siemens, BMW, BP, HSBC, TATA etc are all backwater protected companies having no effect on the world market?

Seriously, it's half the G20 with either mandated quota requirements, or a requirement to document in the yearly report company progress toward diversity targets and justify progress - or lack of (model used by UK, Sweden and others).