The music that the general's driver is listening to, moments before he crashes, is actually Greece's national anthem.
When being chased by the fast police car, Daniel changes his license plate to read 'Allez l'OM'. L'OM is the nickname for French football team Olympique Marseille.
The title sequence is basically a spoof of various James Bond titles (Maurice Binder sequences from the late 1970s and 1980s/GoldenEye (1995) sequence by Daniel Kleinman).
In the street market, you can clearly see behind Émilien in at least two shots a poster for Wasabi (2001), also written and produced by Luc Besson.
The names appearing on the alpine skiing scoreboard are names of members of the crew.