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		<title>Blogging for politics and prizes</title>
		<link>http://www.francethisway.com/wp/blogging-for-politics-and-prizes/2009/10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to start today&#8217;s blog by mentioning my dreams for world peace, an end to hunger and by suggesting it would be nice to all hold hands and solve problems with global warming. Hopefully these good intentions are sufficient for the Nobel Prize committee to send me a nice medal and, more importantly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relaunching the French economy</title>
		<link>http://www.francethisway.com/wp/relaunching-the-french-economy/2009/08/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 1 July 2009 the VAT rate on restaurant meals was reduced in France from 19.6% to 5.5%, in an effort to encourage us to all eat out more and bring prosperity to the catering industry.
Many restaurants haven’t actually passed on the reduction to their customers, and it is very doubtful whether we will all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European elections in France</title>
		<link>http://www.francethisway.com/wp/european-elections-in-france/2009/06/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, one day left to decide who to vote for in the European elections &#8211; and frankly I haven&#8217;t the first idea. So if you&#8217;re here looking for guidance you&#8217;re likely to be disappointed. because that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m looking for as well.
When I was young and angry I always knew exactly who to vote for. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G20 walkout by France</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve avoided politics on this blog because (1) I know nothing about it and (2) it makes me and everyone else miserable just thinking about it. But a headline just caught my eye that I can&#8217;t stop myself commenting on.
The headline was in the BBC and read &#8216;France threatens G20 walkout&#8217;. Seemingly M Sarkozy has made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The value of things</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tourist industry is very important in France, although this year it is going to have a difficult time &#8211; so I am hoping that M. Sarkozy will announce soon that he will compensate us, and all the thousands of hoteliers and gite owners and travel agents in France, for the slowdown in business. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buy French cars&#8230;if you want to</title>
		<link>http://www.francethisway.com/wp/buy-french-cars/2009/02/</link>
		<comments>http://www.francethisway.com/wp/buy-french-cars/2009/02/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are in France you might be aware that M Sarkozy is having a much publicized TV interview this evening (5/2/09) where he will answer many of the concerns of the &#8216;man in the street&#8217; about the current economic woes. Here is one I hope gets tackled&#8230;

Would Joe Public be more likely to buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Andrews Day – ce n’est pas Bastille Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest entry by Alasdair Smith &#8211; a keen Scottish Francophile who blogs wistfully about moving to France at French Obsession. On the basis that you are almost certainly sick of my continual grumblings, it should be nice to hear from someone who still sees France through rose-tinted spectacles&#8230;and Scotland is my second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European leaders cope with the financial crisis</title>
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		<comments>http://www.francethisway.com/wp/european-leaders-cope-with-the-financial-crisis/2008/11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The leaders of Europe are to meet to discuss ways to deal with the financial crisis. Socialist leaders in Britain have cut taxes, much to the distress of the conservatives; right-wing leaders in France are to support thousands of state-funded employees and perhaps bail out the car industry. What a topsy-turvy world we live in.
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working with the French government</title>
		<link>http://www.francethisway.com/wp/working-with-the-french-government/2008/11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read the other day that homeaway &#8211; the largest group of holiday rental listing sites in the world that includes, among others, VRBO.com, holiday-rentals.co.uk, ownersdirect.co.uk and abritel.fr &#8211; had raised an additional $250 million investment. And that was just for a minority stake.
I can&#8217;t for the life of me imagine what they will spend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxe de sejour</title>
		<link>http://www.francethisway.com/wp/taxe-de-sejour/2008/09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A century ago, France was having difficulty attracting tourists because of competition from Germany and Austria and because, as they recognised, the standards of their tourist facilities were often not very good.
So in 1910 the French Government had an idea. Introduce a tax on tourists &#8211; called a taxe de sejour &#8211; and spend the [...]]]></description>
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