Potential investors, looking at the litigation risks in America compared to the rest of the world, are beginning to shift investments to less risky countries.

One method has been to shift some labor-intensive production to low-wage Asian countries.

Some of the work has been shifted to India and other countries where programmers are cheaper.

That means manufacturing will continue to shift to the United States and other countries.

At the beginning of the century, manufacturing jobs could not be shifted easily to low-wage countries.

There is an attempt to shift the blame to developing countries.

Secondly, if the negotiations fail do you expect production to shift significantly from the European Union to third countries?

The question whether production will shift to third countries is often raised.

There is no point in Europe being tough if it just means production shifting to countries allowing a free-for-all on emissions.

Instead, it has shifted from the developed world to developing countries.