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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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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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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Visiting Burgundy this April? Looking for places to go or things to do? Have a look at the What's On? for April and you should find something for everyone.
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Did you realise that 'abricot' comes from Arabic, 'amour' from Occitan and 'chic' is used in most European languages?
From 10th to 20th March 'Semaine de la Langue Française,' organised by the ministry of Culture and Communication in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Education,
will investigate the origins and aquisition of language, its diversity and its capacity to traverse languages world wide.
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Restructuring and falling prices in top markets, claim France Telecom, are responsible for a sharp drop in their profits for 2006.
Trading mainly under the Orange brand, the operators report a net profit of 4.14billion euros for the 12 months up to December 31st; that is a 27% drop of 1.56billion euros from 2005.
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The greenhouse gas situation caused by gas emissions and energy losses were diagnosed at the end of 2006.
The results show that if the situation isn’t checked by 2020 the consumption of energy by transport will rise by 40% and residential consumption by 20%.
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The sapeurs-pompiers (fire-fighters) sometimes receive odd, funny or even downright bizarre callouts. But recently the fire department in the Nièvre received the most bizarre ever.
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Burgundy is well know for it's extremes. We get cold winters, hot summers and spectacular thunderstorms.
Summer can see temperatures up to around 40 degrees while winter can get down to about minus 15 degrees and when a thunderstorm is forecast people unplug computers and televisions.
This week we had the first snow, about six inches of white, powdery stuff, which seems to emphasize things you don't usually notice.
Our large fir tree in the courtyard would have looked beautiful over Christmas, but with the smaller bushes it looks clean and fresh out there.
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