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At least there is no shortage of confidence in energy. EDF’s £12.5bn takeover of British Energy, the nuclear power generator, puts France’s national energy…

Ian Williams: A senior Republican accuses the Democratic party of wanting to turn America ‘into France’. Quelle horreur!

I’m in the south of France for a quick break with Victoria. It wasn’t my idea, I hate France – but Victoria has started to get a little bit of bulimia back as pre-wedding nerves start to kick in and she needed a break.

The simple rustic Tuscan tactics of Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, the chief of Finmeccanica, clearly pay higher dividends than the more Machiavellian approach of the Italian company’s French and German rivals

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Fiachra Gibbons: To the Vatican where The Man in White is getting agitated about his big visit to France in the summer

France’s blue-chip companies seem to be increasingly featuring on the menu of international private equity firms and activist investors, let alone French ones

From the archive, May 7 1994: On board, the Queen and 799 other VIPs were heading to become the first people to cross from England to France by dry land for 6,000 years