New figures out from Eurostat on 21 March show that the most expensive agricultural land in some 20 European Union countries lies in he Netherlands, fetching an average of €63.000 euros per hectare (€791 for rental), and in the region of Liguria in I...

[multilanguage_switcher]While the International Agriculture Salon gets into full swing in Paris, let’s take a quick look at the French context in which it is taking place.

President Macron is ...

[multilanguage_switcher]Water can be declared clean and drinkable at the water treatment plant, but what about the distribution pipelines it then runs through to get to your tap?

And how much are you paying for this water?

At the price...

Official figures are just out - 4 July - giving the average market value of agricultural land in France (2017). Prices are in Euros per hectare (hectare = ‘are’ in French). A hectare is 10.000 square metres. Consult the grid here. https://www.legi...

A European Bee Partnership, the first ever integrated approach of its kind in Europe, was launched last Friday 29th June at the outcome of the European Parliament's Bee Week. The idea of the Partnersh...

The Eiffel Tower beckons us from a distance as we drive in to Paris on the motorway from Normandy.   Her graceful shape will never cease to give me that moment’s thrill when approaching - the same thrill I had when I first arrived in this city decade...

[multilanguage_switcher]The short story entitled Le Train which you can read on the...

The snow fell quietly, covering the settlement in a thick white blanket.  The shaman had told Okwana she’d recognize the singing hut by the large narwhal ivory which jutted up out of the roof; it whistled when the wind raced over the ice, he’d said. ...

  After her fortuitous meeting with King Louis XIV, Dame Carpenter is now 'living' in the oil painting along with the Comte, but finds her new incarnation challenging. She continues her story. For Chapter 1, by ajhAugust 19, 2016