Gone are the days when rose wine was naff. Now the French can’t get enough of it, and we’re all following suit. And that’s good news for our near neighbours, whose wine industry has been in the doldrums…
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Power to the people
June 28, 2008 – 9:00 am
Many European voters are far from happy – particularly when it comes to their money being wasted. But it is they who ultimately have control, as France correspondent Bruce Parker reports.
The oligarchs’ playground
Russian oligarchs are moving in on the Cote d’Azur, with one spending a cool £392m. on a villa and another offering £80m. to divert a railway line that was bothering him. But they’re not the first of their kind to use the place as a playground.