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France’s young flock to Britain
Matthew Campbell Paris
THIS Wednesday Marine Fretel, an intelligent, well-educated young French woman, will board a train to London. She has let her Paris flat, packed a large suitcase and said goodbye to family and friends.
She does not expect to return. Fretel is one of the “Eurostar generation” of French professionals fleeing to London and other cities abroad in the hope of better careers in a land of opportunity.
The farewell parties held each week in Paris are multiplying, and although the government puts a brave face on the exodus, this rush for the exit is an embarrassing symptom of chronic French woes as the country prepares to pick its new president.
A dearth of jobs in France, the world’s fifth largest economy, has turned London, less than three hours from Paris by Eurostar, into an eldorado for young professionals such as Fretel. Friends in London have told her that the British capital, unlike the one she is leaving behind, is a “city of dreams”.
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SleepyWitch
Mr Virgil, last time I checked, the cold war was not won, it just kinda ended.
My politics profs in England even said American and English politicians and conservative gov. thinktanks were taken by surprise when it did. they could never have immagined that someone like Gorbatchev would turn up. all their scenarios involved (nuclear) war and when a group of feminist political scientists was invited to play a role game against the gov.'s specialists, the women predicted what was actually to happen a couple of years later, whereas the gov. team (all guys) nuked all their enemies without provocation just in order not to look like "wimps"
That may be true they were taken by surprise. What does that have to do with whether it was won? The last time I checked the Soviet Union was fragmented into all sorts of countries and Russia has returned as a nation with its central church. Last time I checked none of the countries that were swallowed into the Soviet Union claims to have a communist government or economic system. Last time I checked NATO still existed, in fact now includes Poland, Hungary, Chech, Slovakia, and others, including now the Baltic countries, actuall Soviet Union satellite nations. Last time I checked East Germany is now part of a free Germany consoldated into a Western country with the Berlin Wall torn down as that great American President once urged. I call that a catagorical victory. I leave you with the prediction that Ronald Reagan had in a famous 1982 speech: