And now we go round the houses for another 6 months of dithering. @GitanasNauseda is right: we need to stop writing false red lines for ourselves, based on outdated thinking. Hopefully French and Dutch thinking leads to a change. Quickly.
Le Maire: French inflation to decline from mid-2023 BAHA
Le Maire: French inflation to decline from mid-2023 BAHA
If the French want something truly scary to protest, something detrimental to #France and its values, retirement reform is the wrong target. They should focus their ire instead on the rightward lurch in attitudes towards #immigrants . (via @libe )
Seyna adds claim management product for insurance brokers: French startup Seyna is slowly building an all-in-one platform for insurance brokers so that they can create, sell and manage insurance products from… > #tech #startups #VC
Writing in a foreign language is quite challenging, but very exciting too. This book has been my companion for few years. First written in 1918, it is the English equivalent to the French book of grammar (Le Bled). Just perfect and still very accurate! #English #writingtips
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We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing “the” labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.
BREAKING NEWS: The 2022 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”
For more than 30 years, plastic phones shaped like the cartoon cat Garfield have been washing up on French beaches. The mystery is now solved: a shipping container which washed up during a storm in the 1980s was found in a hidden sea cave ? Fred Tanneau
Official. Karim Benzema announces his retirement from international football 🚨 #Benzema
He leaves the French national team.
128 performers in wheelchairs. French choreographer Sadek Waff leads a mesmerising hand ballet during the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics …
In the French elections, given the choice between progressives who want to increase taxes on the rich, or right-wing extremists who are viciously anti-immigrant, the pro-business "centrist" party of Macron just couldn't make a choice. There's a lesson to be learned here.
Official statement: La Liga announce they have now reported Paris Saint-Germain to UEFA because of Kylian Mbappé deal. 🚨 #Mbapp é “This is a scandal. We will now report PSG to Uefa, French autorities and EU authorities”. ⤵️📑
There's so much I admire about the French: their sophistication, their cinema, their willingness to prosecute former presidents.
Trump’s European Vacation was as bad as the movie. He wimped out of honoring our fallen troops because of a misting. He moped around in his hotel room and insulted fire victims. And he was scorched by the French President. This is not winning. This is a national embarrassment.
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