When we opened our first French shop the Dutch were asking, 'Do you need a licence for everything?'" ING Direct, the Dutch internet bank, has based a call centre in Reims and cites the TGV, the sheer enthusiasm of Invest in Reims, lower costs than Paris and a number of good business schools as reasons for the move.
They could use fake money to acquire academic certificates, computer qualifications, tickets to travel abroad, driving licences and everything else being sold by the salesmen who roved around the plots of the houses.
And when Rinse got the licence, it changed everything and nothing.
But what hurt more were the people who thought the expenses scandal gave them licence to criticise everything about the couple's life.
He says he will try to find a way round the increased duties, but if he fails, he will hand back his licence".Everything seems on hold," says a Havana-based European businessman.
A disgruntled Matthews complained: "It's on my driving licence, my bank cards, everything.
We tried for over six months to get a licence from Locog but virtually everything on the promotions/souvenir side was given to Chinese companies and UK companies sourcing their products 100% from China.
Microsoft has to choose whether to play it safe – focusing on the large "enterprise" customers who generate so much of its profit by buying its Office software, Server suite and Windows licences – or to go after everything else too.
Ofcom has issued Everything Everywhere with licences to launch what are called Long-Term Evolution (LTE) services.
"At a time when public service broadcasting is under increasing financial pressure, we have to do everything we can to protect the licence fee or to police how the licence fee is being spent".
Even if you're watching everything online, not getting a licence could prove a costly mistake.
