A small sporting club at Aix-les-Bains, a small town not far from the French Alps, made a great discovery only six years ago. Now 21-year-old Christophe Lemaître participated to a sport-day 50-m sprint competition, just for fun. Coaches don the spot just did not believe their eyes. How can somebody without any proper technics run so fast? They had to put Christophe to run twice in order to be sure first time wasn’t just an error of clocking. Well,it wasn’t.
EEMI TERVAPORTTI – THE PILLAR OF AJACCIO VOLLEY
April 6, 2012
FOR FRENCH LEFT THE RICH ARE THE PROBLEM
March 24, 2012
EU BUDGET TREATY: HOLLANDE PLAYS WITH FIRE
March 24, 2012
STRONG EURO FORCES INDUSTRY TOWARDS HIGH-END PRODUCTS
March 24, 2012
EUROPEAN SOCCER IN CRISIS
March 24, 2012
SARKOZY REBOUND WITH 70.000 SUPPORTERS?
March 12, 2012French president Nicolas Sarkozy may have made some of the best soccer teams and rock stars jealous. With almost 70.000 supporters packed in a exhibition hall in Villepinte, North of Paris, he tried to jump-start his election campaign. Still behind the Socialist challenger Francois Hollande in polls, Sarkozy wants to show that he is THE strongman France needs in order to tackle illegal immigration, France’s competitivity problems and unemployment. If this show does not work, what would?
GROS BOIS, HORSES’ PARADISE
February 26, 2012I bet The Emperor Napoleon’s Marchall Berthier did not have a clue what will happen later to his hunting domain Gros Bois 30 km from Paris. At the Gros Bois trot training center horses, trainers and other workers have lived since 1962 a real horse lovers’ dream. 4 square km of castles, lakes, forest paths, racing lanes and place for up to 1500 horses. Raining or shining, ideal training here is possible. For Provinssi, a 10-year-old Finnhorse, the very first first competition trip to France could not have had better conditions.
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GALLEN KALLELA THE PARISIAN
February 11, 2012Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Jean Sibelius and excellent Finnish food. Musée d’Orsay is exposing the Finnish heritage wider than ever. On the main stage Gallen-Kallela, who with his strong Parisian influence is making the visitor to discover not only Parisian naturalistic views but also Finnish myths through his spectacular Kalevala illustrations.
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SMALL BUSINESS ABUSED BY THE BIG
February 11, 2012French small and medium-sized businesses complain that the big companies are using them as banks. As the economic crisis deepens, payment delays are worsening. Now it takes between 45-60 days for a big company to pay its bills for their small partners. This causes serious problems for the small, making it difficult to meet their social security, salary and tax obligations. At the same time, banks are reluctant to lend mone, partly because of Basel III-requirements for bank solvability.
