A French minister has responded angrily to the boss of US tyremaker Titan who said he would have to be "stupid" to invest in the country. Maurice Taylor made the claims in a letter to France's minister for industrial recovery, Arnaud Montebourg. On Thursday, Mr Montebourg replied that Mr Taylor's "extreme" comments showed a "perfect ignorance of what our country is". He added that 20,000 foreign firms are in France, employing 2 million people. Mr Taylor - a former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996 - was replying to a request for Titan to consider investing in a loss-making Goodyear plant in ... (full story)