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David Cameron 's marathon in Brussels seems to have culminated in a happy ending, enabling him to return to London with sufficient b...

That is the question, concerning Britain's future relationship with Europe, to be handled in Brussels today and tomorrow. Donald Ca...

David Cameron has just told his ministers that they're all free, individually, to adopt whatever attitude they like to the forthcomi...

In France, it's a fact, rightly or wrongly, that few folk celebrate the Battle of Waterloo , which took place exactly two centuries ago,...

The great ship France seems to have collided with something big and nasty. On the radar screen, it looks like this: Outside, ever...

In less than a week, Australia has been invited to perform actively and directly in the Eurovision Song Contest … though not strictly as a c...

[ breaking news, Saturday afternoon, February 22, 2014 ] I hope my blog title is not naively over-optimistic... A few weeks ago, I was en...

I suggest that you start the following video immediately.  Like many people, I love to watch trains go past. I hope you share with ...

Once upon a time, in France, we had an extraordinary national anthem—stirring, but not particularly nice—that evoked blood and gore, the smo...

Yesterday, I came upon an interesting blog article in French by the celebrated writer Jacques Attali . [Use Google to discover the many tale...

Let me get this out of my system right away, so that I'll feel less guilty this evening. I intend to watch the Eurovision song contest ....

These days, people who hear of the Sarkozy couple would have normally imagined this duo: There's an offspring. The extreme right-wing p...

Herman Who? Baroness What? Herman Van Rompuy , that's who : the 62-year-old prime minister of a charming land named Belgium, with two c...

On the evening of 9 November 1989, we were seated in front of the TV at Christine 's place in the rue Rambuteau, watching the momentous ...

It's tremendously encouraging to see that a popular vote in Ireland has confirmed the nation's desire to accept the Lisbon treaty an...

Instead of "funny", I was about to write "horny". Thinking of male political candidates eager to win (girl)friends and i...

The French government has the right, indeed the duty, to persuade citizens that they should take the trouble to visit the polling booths on ...

The question in my title is deliberately rhetorical and provocative, merely to draw attention. It's like a newspaper heading such as: Mu...

My second-favorite computing company has made a graphic effort to remind us that today is the 14th of July, Bastille Day . Symbolically, thi...

Often, in the wake of a revolution, or maybe after a mere political victory, males like to hoist a waving female into the air, as a kind o...