Original sentence: "Furthermore, the development of the Internet has shaken up the environment of the negotiations.It allows the instant diffusion of the texts under discussion, whose confidentiality becomes more and more theoretical.It permits, beyond national boundaries, the sharing of knowledge and expertise.Mme Lalumière argued, however that France should continue to pursue further liberalisation of investment regimes though not in the OECD "On the one hand, under these conditions it would be impossible to achieve the balancing of the concessions demanded by the firms, and on the other, the objections of the opponents would be just as fierce.Of equal or greater significance was the importance accorded by Mme Lalumière to the global protest movement which at that time she attributed to the work and influence of NGOs: "For the first time, one is seeing the emergence of a "global civil society" represented by NGOs which are often based in several states and communicate beyond their frontiers.On a subject which is highly technical, the representatives of civil society seemed to us perfectly well informed, and their criticisms well argued on a legal level.On one hand, organisations representing civil society have become aware of the consequences of international economic negotiations.They are determined to leave their mark on them.This evolution is doubtless irreversible