We have terrorists in our backyard. Look here and here. And there we were thinking that we had got away from terrorist problems by hiding away in the French countryside. How foolish. I love it when wine producers and farmers can't think of anything better than demand that their government solve their problems. This is what year upon year of nanny state intervention and subsidies have produced. And, it's not as if food in France is particularly cheap. Yet another small problem for Sarkozy to deal with.
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Talking about the price of food, in a recent English television news item, they panned across an outdoor market stall and I noticed that they were selling apricots at £1.65 a kilo (approx conversion €2.39 a kilo). The last lot of apricots that we bought were over €5 a kilo. And they were grown in France and they're probably subsidised by the EU. What's going on?
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