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In the first of a series of articles Nick Inman looks at the future of the EU and reforms it should make. Here he stresses the need to prioritise democracy and proposes a draft charter

She represents the values of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité and Marianne is the symbolic figure of the French Republic. But she also gives her name to a little-known civil service guide, Le Référentiel Marianne.  

Hairdressers can make your hair curl with the names of their salons – even in France. But French people love terrible jokes, Samantha David says

Petroleum geochemist and member of science action group Collectif STA Bernard Durand spoke to Selma Daddi of his fears over the spread of wind farms

Is it true that, if you have a French pension and return to the UK to live, with a no-deal Brexit you risk losing all your pensions? And, if so, why?

Elizabeth Melia, Alpes-Maritimes

My wife and I are off to California in March for a few weeks and we want to rent cars, which generally means having a credit card.

Robin Maule (Children right to strike over the environment, Letters, March) has apparently failed to ask himself the central question: why is climate change such a crucial issue now?

Brexit should never have survived the initial poorly informed referendum.

Re: articles on the 80kph new speed limits...  how many accidents have been caused by vehicles driving too close to the one in front?

I read with sympathetic interest of the surprise of a correspondent when she changed her British driving licence to a French one and found that her French driving licence was in her maiden name (see here).