{"id":70403,"date":"2017-06-16T10:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/french-president-macron-launches-tech-visa-to-make-france-a-country-of-unicorns"},"modified":"2017-06-16T10:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:42:29","slug":"french-president-macron-launches-tech-visa-to-make-france-a-country-of-unicorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/french-president-macron-launches-tech-visa-to-make-france-a-country-of-unicorns","title":{"rendered":"French President Macron launches tech visa to make France a \u2018country of unicorns\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/french-president-macron-launches-tech-visa-to-make-france-a-country-of-unicorns.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>France launched a technology visa on Thursday which aims to attract international talent, with newly-elected President Emmanuel Macron talking about the need to strip out regulation to become a \u201ccountry of unicorns\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Viva Tech conference in Paris, France, Macron outlined how his government would slash complex regulation, make it easier for foreign talent to work, and support start-ups with money, in order to create world-leading companies.<\/p>\n<p>The visa is open to start-up founders, employees and investors and is a fast-track procedure to obtain a residence permit in France known as the \u201cTalent Passport\u201d. It\u2019s valid for four years and extended to immediate family members.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/06\/15\/french-president-macron-france-should-be-a-country-of-unicorns.html\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/06\/15\/french-president-macron-franc...corns.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France launched a technology visa on Thursday which aims to attract international talent, with newly-elected President Emmanuel Macron talking about the need to strip out regulation to become a \u201ccountry of unicorns\u201d. Speaking at the Viva Tech conference in Paris, France, Macron outlined how his government would slash complex regulation, make it easier for foreign [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}