Can Islam Be French?: Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Andre-Claude Lacoste was taken aback when French politicians demanded a public inquiry into the country's nuclear industry a few weeks ago. The head of France's...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Andre-Claude Lacoste was taken aback when French politicians demanded a public inquiry into the country’s nuclear industry a few weeks ago. The head of France’s could not understand why his joint letter with two other European regulators demanding design changes to a new-generation EPR reactor being built in France, Finland and soon in the UK, should have prompted a storm in a country...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | yesterday
... whether to bar Muslim women from wearing full-face veils, sparking a heated debate in which one French politician described burqas, the head-to-toe veils worn by some very devout Muslim women, as "walking coffins." The government issued a recommendation against wearing burqas, but stopped short of an outright ban. European governments also have struggled in recent years...
Plaid Wrecsam (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Never heard of him! Neither had I till yesterday. Well he's the new Commisssioner for the Internal Market at the European Commission and he's a former French Foreign Minister. Now Mr Barnier has some wide ranging powers to 'regulate financial markets'and this has really upset senior City of London sources, one of whom was quoted as saying, "This is a disaster. They have appointed an incredibly...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... payoffs: they are Günter Verheugen of Germany, Margot Wallstrom of Sweden and Jacques Barrot, a Frenchman. Related LinksThe biggest recipients will be Verheugen and Wallstrom, who have both had 10 years in Brussels on a vice-president’s salary of £241,200. Even commissioners who have hardly served any time are entitled to lavish settlements. Poland’s Pawel Samecki, who is leaving his job...
Arts Reader (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
If this email is not displayed correctly, please click on the following link or open your browser and paste the link into the address field: http://view.ed4.net/v/OZMCDD/0T8WM/E86XCH/EX4DM/ Energy Friday November 27 2009 FT.com - Energy Nuclear plant group's safety move A French consortium hoping to build the first new nuclear power stations in Britain for 20 years has submitted a solution that...
Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
I continue to derive much simple impish amusement from the antics of the French president, such an endearingly silly little man, and French politicians in general. There has been so much recently to smile over: Frédéric Mitterrand, the self–professed sex tourist; the Prince Jean affair; the storm over The Princess of Cleves ; the massive amounts of money wasted...
