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A bill on ‘Votes for Life’  for Britons living overseas is still going through the UK parliament a year after it was introduced – Dr Sue Collard, Senior Lecturer in French Politics and Contemporary European Studies at University of Sussex, considers why it is taking so long and whether it may be passed in time in case of another Brexit referendum or snap election

Samantha David harbours a festive secret... She prefers to go back to work on December 26 rather than face another day of fancy food, schmaltzy films and egg-nog for breakfast

If people consider that you have some kind of expertise about France, then there is a subject that you will never fail to get questioned about. Forget the increasingly chaotic nature of the Fifth Republic or related political, economic or social subjects – what people really want to know is where they can enjoy exquisite Gallic cuisine. 

Emmanuel Macron must find it incomprehensible. A few weeks ago, as this column observed, he considered himself the next emperor of Europe, awaiting Angela Merkel’s withdrawal from the Ger­man chancellorship before ascending his apparently inevitable throne.

I write in reply to your web article from Nick Inman about the EU bringing peace (EU membership a small price to pay for peace).

It would be easier to accept the French government’s professed concern for the environment if there were evidence that it designed its administrative procedures with the health of the planet in mind.

There is one aspect of the gilets jaunes I find intensely annoying.

The use by Eurostat of taxation as a percentage of GDP is as false a measure as is GDP.

Has anyone else felt that the French banking system is excruciatingly slow and inefficient?

Nabila Ramdani’s criticism of the Gilet Jaunes (December Connexion) seems a case of not seeing the wood for the trees.