Blog posts tagged "France"

May 6, 2012 12:38 pm 14 Comments

A tremendous air of excitement here in Paris. Even before getting here, it was clear that French society is profoundly different from our own. But it’s not just France that’s voting today, but Greece and Serbia.

October 26, 2011 5:46 pm 6 Comments

Blogging as leaders meet for the eurozone crisis summit, Jon Snow writes that "it's an incredible shambles here in Brussels".

October 8, 2010 7:33 am 21 Comments

For the last years of Labour’s time in power, bilateral summits between France and Britain became a commonplace. At the last one between Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French offered a deal to share aspects of their nuclear deterrent – submarine patrols that would reduce the need to have so many Trident Subs, and [...]

June 17, 2010 10:46 am 52 Comments

Spain is in the frame again...stress testing her banks seems not to have been a particularly reassuring experience.

June 3, 2010 1:41 pm 39 Comments

For the last two years French President Nicolas Sarkozy as been trying to persuade Britain to look again at the idea of combining nuclear deterrence with France.