A survey has shown that 71% of French people are happy to assert their European identity. Two years after the referendum in May 2005, three quarters of French people say they feel ‘often or from time to time’ proud to be European.
This ability to feel pride in being French and European transcends the generations and political alliance and the pride in nationality grows with age as 95% of people aged 75 and above has the greatest allegiance to their homeland whereas only 88% of under 25s show the same pride.
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The giant specialist wood merchants, Fruytier, are establishing a sawmill close to the village of La-Roche-en-Brenil in the Cote d'Or, situated close to forests of Douglas Fir and is served by the A6 motorway.
Fruytier plan to invest 18 million euros into Burgundy over the next three years, a project on 20 hectares, which is estimated to create 120 jobs in the various manufacturing units.
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In an interview with 'Hebdo Car' magazine Bernie Egglestone, President and Chief Executive of Formula 1, called into question the ability of the Nevers-Magny-Cours racetrack; to provide acceptable facilities for the French Formula 1 Grand Prix.
He severely criticised the infrastructure of Nevers-Magny-Cours, saying it was growing old, its road network causes unnecessary congestion and there are too few hotels in the vicinity.
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The European Union celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and throughout the EU people are celebrating from capitol cities to small villages all with the logo of 'Together since 1957'.
One canton in the Cote d'Or department of Burgundy celebrated with stalls, photoshoots and friendship.
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France is seen as one of the countries with the lowest rate of Internet users in Europe. Only about 40 households in 100 are onnected to the web in comparison to 70 out of a 100 in England and Germany.
The internet is seen as essential for the future of France in the commercial and ecconomic world and in order that France can keep place with its competitors 15 measures are being put in place to help France make up for lost time by 2010. This is being done by NTIC (La maîtrise des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication.)
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The ownership of the château, Châteauneuf-en-Auxois is due to change hands from the state to the Burgundy region in January 2008.
In a recent meeting the transfer of ownership was approved by the elected officials from the conseil régional but despite this approval the actual transfer will not take place until the beginning of 2008.
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Two regions of France have been chosen to start a pilot study into childhood development and 20,000 children are to be studied in Burgundy and Picardy.
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