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Emmanuel Macron has warned it could take decades for Ukraine to join the EU as he proposed a new political organisation on the continent. During a speech marking Europe Day in Strasbourg, the French president said 'we all know perfectly that the process of allowing (Ukraine) to join would take several years, in fact probably several decades.' He added: 'That is the truth, unless we decide to lower the standards for accession. And rethink the unity of our Europe.' He also said that Europe must learn from its past mistakes to ensure Russia is not 'humiliated' in peace negotiations.

JERUSALEM, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A French magazine has revealed the Israeli location of one of the largest and most important signals intelligence bases (SIGNIT) in the world. Le Monde Diplomatique said the base is located near Kibbutz Urim in the Negev, not far from the city of Beersheba. Israeli daily newspapers published details of the report Sunday, noting the location of the base had been kept secret prior to the French report. The magazine also had photographic images showing the location of the base -- some downloaded by Google Earth and others taken from the roadside.

"It may not give you 'The Drive of Your Life', as its makers Peugeot may try to claim, but the latest micro electric car is creating huge excitement in the automotive industry. The Peugeot BB1, a cross between a scooter and a car, is powered by two electric motors which are mounted in the rear wheels. A silver prototype BB1had residents and tourists stopping to take a closer peak when a prototype version rolled into Paris today. Inspired by Peugeot’s electric VLV from the 1940s, the new all-electric BB1 represents the car firm’s view for the future of electrical-based urban...

PARIS — The French have always found American elections amusing, in a horror movie sort of way. They grumpily regard the American president as in some unfortunate sense also their own, but they see the campaign through their own cultural lens.They value sophistication above almost anything, and so they regard their own hyperactive president, Nicolas Sarkozy, with his messy romantic life and model-singer wife, as “Sarko the American.”But this year has been difficult for the French. Mr. Sarkozy has generally supported American foreign policy and has praised the United States’ openness and entrepreneurial verve. And the sudden emergence of Senator...

Despite an enormous anti-US feeling toward the cut and run Europe, the Web has became the new counter-power for Europeans concerned about the War on Terror, the triumph of the idea of freedom and for all the Europeans who deeply admire President George W. Bush and see him as a new Ronald Reagan. Just take a look on this blog. http://le-blog-atlantiste.over-blog.com Let a message under the article ("commentaires) to support Republican revolution in Europe. It certainly needs a lot of courage to refuse political correctness and US hatred and to look for the truth about the USA and the party...

LONG-STANDING rumours that the former French president Jacques Chirac holds a secret multi-million-euro bank account in Japan appear to have been confirmed by files seized from the home of a senior spy. Papers seized by two investigating magistrates from General Philippe Rondot, a former head of the DGSE, France's intelligence service, show Mr Chirac opened an account in the mid-1990s at Tokyo Sowa Bank, credited with the equivalent of £30 million. It is not known where the money came from, nor whether it is connected to various kick-back scandals to which Mr Chirac's name has been linked over the past...

STATIC FROM THE ATTIC © NOTES OF AN UNHAPPY CAMPER by Norman Liebmann During The War of 1812 British soldiers burned Washington D.C. to the ground. Where are the Red Coats now that we need them? George Bush’s much-advertised “new tone” degenerated into the mucous that is Washington politics. His moral collapse on the illegal immigration issue has earned him the title Capitulator-in-Chief. Bush double-crossed the Republican base on securing our southern border. Apparently Texas can breed whores as well as heifers. I find myself in grudging sympathy with Cindy Sheehan. I would not have considered that possible. (On this...

Dutch investigators cleared Lance Armstrong of doping in the 1999 Tour de France on Wednesday, and blamed anti-doping authorities for misconduct in dealing with the American cyclist. A 132-page report recommended convening a tribunal to discuss possible legal and ethical violations by the World Anti-Doping Agency and to consider "appropriate sanctions to remedy the violations." The French sports daily L'Equipe reported in August that six of Armstrong's urine samples from 1999, when he won the first of his record seven-straight Tour titles, came back positive for the endurance-boosting hormone EPO when they were retested in 2004. Armstrong has repeatedly denied...

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes." ---Mark Twain "I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." --- General George S. Patton "Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." --Norman Schwartzkopf "We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it." Marge Simpson "As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure" ---Jacques Chirac, President of France "As far as France is concerned, you're...

From: Saul Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:57:33 +1000 Subject: Raels Comments to US elections Bush is elected again! George Bush is elected again ! As was Adolph Hitler ... Wild democracy rears its ugly head again... 70 % of Germans were openly antisemitic and Auschwitz was a democratically planified event... Hiroshima killed 300 000 innocent Japanese civilians in the worst terrorist attack of the history of humanity and a vast majority of Americans still support it ... 100 000 Iraqis have been killed and a majority of American support it. Guantanamo is a concentration camp with torture and abuses...

“France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.” Mark Twain On Saturday, Yasser Arafat (capo of the Palestinian Cosa Nostra) was flown to Paris for treatment of an undiagnosed medical condition which we can only hope is terminal. As a humanitarian gesture, Israel let the mass murderer go and promised he could return. Then too, if the French heal the way they fight, the PLO chieftain will be dead within a week. Perhaps Sharon was counting on that. But, seriously, what could...

AP , PARIS Tuesday, Dec 23, 2003,Page 6 Muslim women in Paris on Sunday protest against a ban on Islamic headscarves in schools, hospitals and public buildings. Thousands of people, mainly Muslim women shouting "The veil, my choice," marched through Paris on Sunday against presidential proposals to ban Islamic head scarves from public schools and maybe at work, too. The protest, a cry of anguish from a rarely heard section of French society, was the first in Paris against President Jacques Chirac's announcement on Wednesday that head scarves and other conspicuous religious symbols, including Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses,...

French president says international convention needed to address bioethics | France's President Jacques Chirac has called for an international convention on bioethics to prevent breakthroughs in scientific research from being abused. In a strongly worded warning to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO's) general conference yesterday, Chirac said that bioethical principles that carried the force of international law were needed to address new issues raised by advances in genetic engineering and biotechnology. “New threats and new abuses,” he told UNESCO, “made it necessary to set out principles of bioethics in international public law.” He listed the main...

Toogood Reports [Weekender, April 27, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Immediately after the onset of the war on Iraq, our French "allies" decided — yet again — to punish us. Foreseeing the inevitable coalition victory, Pres. Jacques Chirac announced to the world, that the American and British "belligerents" had no right to administer postwar Iraq, or to profit from contracts rebuilding the country. According to Chirac, the French, on the other hand, who had for years illegally armed Saddam Hussein, and who had not sacrificed any blood or treasure to remove him from power, were uniquely deserving of such contracts....

The French practice expressing disagreement all the time, at home, at school, out eating or even shopping. Ever since an American foundation sent us to France in 1999, we have been marvelling at how easily France wins the starring role as the enemy of American interests in any international dispute. We moved to France for a two-year fellowship to study why the French resist globalization. We had only been there for three weeks when we saw that that the French weren't resisting globalization at all, if ever so slightly - which left us two years to figure out why everyone...

Huge support for Chirac's Iraq stanceFriday March 21, 04:02 AMPARIS (Reuters) - Public support for French President Jacques Chirac's stout opposition to a U.S.-led war in Iraq climbed to 92 percent, according to a poll. The IFOP poll for Le Figaro daily newspaper on Friday compared to 86 percent who backed the veteran leader in a separate poll released on Monday, before the conflict started. IFOP, which interviewed 1,003 people on Thursday, day of the first U.S. military strikes against Iraqi targets, said 87 percent of those polled opposed the use of force. Sixty-two percent of those polled said they...

Mar 17, 2003France Calls Emergency U.N. Meeting on Iraq's Peaceful Disarmament, Ignoring U.S. Deadline By Edith M. Lederer and Dafna Linzer Associated Press Writers UNITED NATIONS (AP) - France called for an emergency U.N. ministerial meeting Tuesday to set a timetable for Iraq's peaceful disarmament, ignoring a Monday deadline set by the United States and three allies for the United Nations to authorize war against Baghdad. U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix was also ignoring the threat of a possibly imminent war for the moment and preparing to give the Security Council a 30-page report Monday listing about a...

France Says Time Not Right for New Iraq ResolutionThu February 6, 2003 02:46 AM ETPARIS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said Thursday the time was not right to discuss a new U.N. resolution opening the way for war against Iraq, insisting arms inspections must continue."A second resolution? We are not at the time for that right now," he told France's Europe 1 radio."As long as the arms inspections make progress, we must pursue them," he added. He said there was a "broad majority" in the U.N. Security Council for inspections to be continued but he did not...

What-If Politics of Flight 93 By John Armor This much we know: United Flight 93 was hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Terrorists flying the plane turned it back toward Washington to use it as a flying bomb against the U.S. Capitol, where Congress was in session. By then, the terrorists probably had cut the throats of the flight crew. Using cell phones, the passengers discovered that two other hijacked planes had been flown into the World Trade Center twin towers. The passengers realized their plane was intended for a similar fate; they and many others would die if they did...

PARIS - It's not every day that you see 8-year-olds pretending to be head of state, but in France these days, politics has grabbed just about everyone's imagination. The boys leaping off a park bench on a recent day shouted: "I am Super Liar," a reference to President Jacques Chirac, so dubbed by a satirical television program here. The show has featured a latex puppet of Mr. Chirac dressed in a Superman-style outfit and carrying a briefcase bulging with stolen bank notes - a reference to the financial scandals that have tarnished the chief executive's reputation. But as Chirac heads...