Posts tagged with ‘France’

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Life in France – as it’s lived in America

December 4, 2009

The past few months haven’t been too good for President Sarkozy of France on the credibility front. There were several reports of the lengths he goes to to conceal his true height and then the rumpus over his Facebook page (see our earlier post) which showed him hacking down the Berlin Wall, even though it [...]

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What a shower

October 29, 2009

Despite the furore over our own MPs’ expenses, the far more staggering amounts of taxpayers’ money sprayed at EU officials largely goes unremarked upon. It may be further away than Westminster, but a considerable proportion of it is still our money.
Only thanks to France’s Court of Accounts (Les juridictions financières) have we been able to [...]