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Tuesday, 13 November 2007 |
Rennes’ Club France-Grande-Bretagne is delighted to confirm it will be holding its yearly Jumble Sale, on Sunday November 25 at its usual venue. Entrance is free to this 20th bric-à-brac festival and it is open to all. Stands are held by both French and British members, some coming especially from England for the event.
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
Commission President José-Maria Barroso told Vladimir Putin that human rights are “sacred” for the EU… but it seems they are not as sacred as energy needs.
During his recent visit to Moscow,
Nicolas Sarkozy echoed Angela
Merkel and Condoleezza Rice by
lecturing the Russians about democracy.
However, he took care not to do it face to
face with President Putin, who has a
reputation for biting repartee on the
subject: Putin recently pointed out that
in Britain a new national leader has
come to power without any elections at
all – not very democratic.
In the same week, EU foreign
ministers led by Germany agreed to ease
sanctions imposed on Uzbekistan for its
truly dismal human rights record.
Announcing the easing of restrictions,
EU Human Rights Commissioner Benita
Ferrero-Waldner said that the new policy
was a “stick and carrot” approach. She
claimed it ended Uzbekistan’s “total
isolation on our terms”. Uzbekistan is
hardly isolated, being a member of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
military alliance, which includes Russia
and China. It also has a reciprocal
military alliance with Russia and is part
of the seven-member Collective Security
Organisation (CSTO).
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
It is planned that the future EU
President will be elected by the
Heads of State and will serve for two
and half years. Gordon Brown and
Nicolas Sarkozy both think Tony Blair
would make an excellent President of
Europe under the new rules.
Gordon Brown said, after the signing
of the Lisbon Treaty, “Tony Blair would
be a great candidate for any significant
international job,” adding, “As you
know, the work he is doing in the Middle
East is of huge international
importance.”
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
The Constitutional Reform treaty
has been agreed by the 27 member
states in Lisbon. Now all 27 have
to ratify it.
The likely sabotage candidates,
Britain, France and Holland, or rather
their leaders, have decreed that as it is
not called a Constitution there is no need
to have a referendum.
The trappings of nationhood have
been removed from the text and there
will be no EU Foreign Minister, just a
Gilbert-and-Sullivan-sounding High
Representative.
There will be a great fuss about it in
Britain but Gordon Brown has a big
majority. So even if the Labour rebels
join the Conservatives he should manage
to get the bill through the Commons. To
divert criticism, he has now given an
undertaking that Britain will agree to no
more changes for the next 10 years or so.
He pleads that his “red lines” have not
been breached. However, it will be up to
the highly political European Court,
from which there is no appeal, to decide
if he is right or not.
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
Staff at Hennes & Mauritz stores are preparing for a
first-come-first-serve battle, with hordes of shoppers
seeking out a cut-price designer fix. After Karl Lagerfeld,
Stella McCartney and Viktor & Rolf, flamboyant man’s
man designer Roberto Cavalli will be sprinkling a little
‘menergy’ onto H&M stores worldwide with the launch of
his first clothing line for the high street chain on
November 8. A piece of the Cavalli dream. So what is the
wild child of Italian glam promising? Plenty of leopard
print, new romantic jabot blouses and trench coats with
sex appeal in 25 womenswear and 20 menswear pieces.
Fashion visionary John Galliano, and über cool Italian
jean brand Diesel have just clinched an exclusive
worldwide licence for a children’s ready-to-wear clothing
and accessories line, called ‘Les Jardins d’Avron’. The
inauguration for the duo’s prét-à-porter baby is set for
January 2008, to tie in with fashion week when designers
will unveil their A/W 2008-2009 collections.
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