Tag Archive - angers
July 29, 2010
In the darkness, my wife screams, then, as I rush to the rescue, starts to laugh. She has been captured by a giant Venus flytrap – but this particular carnivorous plant is made of plastic. We are at Terra Botanica, a new attraction in France's Loire Valley. This is a very ...
June 15, 2010
The circumstances of the last-minute cancellation of a dinner between Angela Merkel, German chancellor, and France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday night are threatening to become a minor diplomatic incident, with French concerns about German budget cuts emerging as the real cause. The meeting in the German capital was called off ...
June 7, 2010
Real estate markets in Europe are showing sings of pulling out of the economic decline but experts warn of the dangers of a double dip. With the exception of Ireland, the price slump has slowed in many countries, including France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands, according to the European ...
April 19, 2010
Britons remain the biggest foreign buyers of French property, despite worsening exchange rates and the economic crisis, new figures have revealed. Research by the Notaires de France found the proportion of foreign sales in the French property market has doubled since 2000, from 2.5% to 5%. British investors make up 17% of ...
February 11, 2010
British civil partners who have recently paid full French inheritance tax after their partner died are to be refunded. Budget Minister Eric Woerth has announced that the right of couples in foreign civil unions to be treated as their French equivalents will be backdated to August 21, 2007. This date ...
