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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
The transport revolution in
Alsace goes on. Next
month, Air France is to
launch a Strasbourg to
London service offering
three return flights a day, at a
flight time of about half an
hour. The greater Strasbourg
municipal authority said that
this would start when the
airline’s Dublin-based
subsidiary, CityJet, launches
its winter flights schedule on
October 28.
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
Driving on the
motorways in the
north east of France
during the week means
sharing with endless columns
of lorries from all over
Europe, from the Baltic
States to Portugal, from
Bulgaria to Holland.
After three years of
discussions and alterations to
the rail track, a rail lorry
route is to open between
Bettembourg in Luxembourg
and Boulou near Perpignan
on the Spanish border (see
‘French News’ May). It is
not the first ferroutage link
in France (which goes
through the Alps to Italy and
is 175 km in length), but, at
1,050km in length it will be
the longest in Europe.
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
Not only is Alsace the site of Europe’s biggest brewery
owned by Scottish and Newcastle at Obernai, but it is also the
home of the Mars factory at Haguenau, north of Strasbourg.
Mars have just announced that they are to introduce a
new bar which will be market tested in
France.
The Mars factory in
Haguenau will be producing the new bars as part of the
77,000 tonnes of confectionary which goes out of the factory
gate each year – 80% for export.
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
President Sarkozy has held his first Council of Ministers
meeting outside Paris, in the offices of the préfet of the
Bas-Rhin in Strasbourg. It is the first time that a Conseil has
been held outside Paris since President Giscard d’Estaing’s
tenure, when the last of a series of three provincial meetings
was held in Lille in 1976.
The choice of Strasbourg is significant because it is the
capital of the only région to have retained a right-wing
conseil-régional, yet the only minister for the région is
Mulhouse Socialist Jean-Marie Bockel. It acknowledges
Strasbourg’s stature as a European capital, one of the seats of
the European Parliament and the sole seat of the Council of
Europe, the body which deals with human rights for the
whole of Europe, not just the EU. The choice also recognises
that there is life outside the ministerial quartier in Paris.
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
The three-mast, 65m,
wooden British sailing
ship ‘Tenacious’, which is
specially equipped to to be
crewed by disabled persons,
will visit Rouen again
this month.
The ‘Tenacious’ was
launched in 2000, having
been constructed over several
years involving hundreds of
volunteers and disabled
workers. There are 10
professional sailors, plus 28
other crew members and 20
disabled, of which eight are
in wheelchairs. It first visited
the city of Rouen as part of
the Armada in 2003.
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