Abstract
Within a few years, since the early 1990s, Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) has become one of the main vectors of globalization. They represent an accelerator of economic integration and financial concentration at the world level. In this global context, enterprises have to be very competitive and to be present at an international level if they want to remain in the market. So FDI is one of the major tools helping to exert an influence to be present abroad. A Foreign Direct Investment is "an investment by a firm from one country in another different country with the intention of gaining a degree of control over that firm's operations". It is the setting up of a branch or subsidiary or includes the process of buying a controlling investment in a firm in another country. This report will analyze the importance of FDI in France.
