This is so true. It’s something I’ve long pondered.

Times Online - Aux armes, citoyens! (Oh, not again.) by Charles Bremner

Part of their mood is shared almost everywhere else in Europe: it springs from distaste for Brussels and a sense that the EU is out of their control. But France is far out of sync with the rest of the world and it is easy to see why. The blame can be pinned on an establishment that has bowed since the 1970s to France’s resistance to change unless it comes with revolution.

Date: May 28th, 2005 · Comments RSS · Tags: Geography and Foreign Affairs