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Johnny Summerton
Member since 09th April 2008
Johnny Summerton is a Paris-based broadcaster, writer and journalist specialising in politics and sport. For more on what's making the headlines here in France log on to his website at persiflagefrance.com
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14th May 2008
Travelling first class on the Eurostar from Paris to London (or vice versa) isn’t really anywhere close to the romantic vision of a more genteel bygone era. It certainly isn’t luxury by any stretch of the imagination and is in fact much more oriented ...
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14th May 2008
It should have been clear from the very outset after Sophie, our train manager welcomed us all aboard the London-bound Eurostar from Paris that this was not going to be a regular, uneventful trip. There was something just a little too sing-songy in her ta...
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08th May 2008
It’s official, as if anyone had any doubt. The Aussie pop chanteuse, Kylie Minogue, is now a cultural icon, at least as far as the French are concerned.
On Monday Minogue became a chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et Lettres (a knight of the order of ...
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06th May 2008
It might just be reading a little too much into a statement by Thomas Enders, the Chief Executive Office of Airbus, but there could be troubles ahead again for the company’s superjumbo, the A380
On Tuesday, Enders said Airbus was conducting a major r...
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02nd May 2008
When running for office last year, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to include the respect for human rights as a vital part of France’s foreign policy.
Yet during his two-day state visit to Tunisia, he has not only failed to live up to tha...
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02nd May 2008
The French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, arrived in the Colombian capital, Bogota, on Monday in the latest attempt to negotiate the release of more than 30 hostages being held by that country’s rebel movement Farc.
But Kouchner faces an uphill ...
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01st May 2008
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, begins a state visit to Tunisia on Monday during which he’ll once again be promoting French industry. He’s also expected to put the finishing touches to his pet project of a Mediterranean Union.
But there’s ...
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01st May 2008
The French remained largely unimpressed by Nicolas Sarkozy’s performance on prime time television last Thursday according to the latest opinion polls.
But unsurprisingly the French president did manage to reassure the party faithful, which is at leas...
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30th April 2008
There’s good news of sorts for Jérôme Kerviel, the junior trader who lost France’s second biggest bank, Sociéte Générale, a pile of money back at the end of January. He has found himself a new job.
But the twist in the tale that's difficult to...
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30th April 2008
In Thursday evening’s much anticipated television interview, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, admitted that he had made some mistakes during his first year in office, and that they might go a long way to explaining his tumbling popularity ratings....
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27th April 2008
The Dalai Lama has been made an honorary citizen of Paris.
On Monday the city’s council passed a resolution made be the mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, to bestow the symbolic title on the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet.
The timing couldn’t have been...
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26th April 2008
Air France-KLM has thrown in the towel in its attempt to take over Italy’s strap-cashed national carrier Alitalia.
And yet again it’s for the last time – apparently.
On Monday the Franco-Dutch group released a short statement saying that as fa...
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25th April 2008
It must be hard work being a television addict in the US. Not only are there far too many channels to choose from, but you can turn on the box just about any time of the day or night and be guaranteed to find something that’ll keep you watching – even...
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25th April 2008
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is to send not one, but two emissaries to Beijing this week in an attempt to heal the growing diplomatic squabble between China and France.
After the recent apparently non-orchestrated spontaneous anti-Western, an...
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25th April 2008
The French supermarket giant, Carrefour, once again found itself at the centre of anti-West protests as demonstrations took place in towns and cities across China at the weekend.
But the chain wasn’t the only specifically French target. There were a...
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