Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Saturday, 13 May 2017

ELECTIONS ROUND-UP

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The 2nd round of the French presidential elections saw Savoie vote for Macron over Le Pen by a  65% to 35%  margin.  A result which almost e...
Saturday, 28 May 2016

WHAT NEXT FOR LES ARCS? The Ski Area

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The latest update from  Avenir et Animations des Arcs  summarises some of the changes coming up in Les Arcs over the coming years.  There...
Saturday, 2 January 2016

THE VANOISE NATIONAL PARK: 1963-2015 RIP

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(My rudimentary translation taken from the  Alpes Magazine  editorial, Dec 2015-Jan 2016) A s we put together the latest version of this m...
Sunday, 4 January 2015

SNOWMAGEDDON: The Aftermath

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Last weekend's  travel chaos  in the Alps made front page news on both sides of the Channel.  At the heart of it was some very bad luck:...
Sunday, 1 June 2014

SKI INSTRUCTOR MATTERS: An update

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The Ski Club of Great Britain's summer magazine Elevation provides an update on " the Megeve Simon Butler case ." It notes ...
Friday, 30 May 2014

ELECTION SPECIAL: Européennes 2014

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In France, the resurgence of the Front Nationale , which came top in the popular vote, is the story of this year's  European Elections ...
Sunday, 23 March 2014

ELECTION SPECIAL: Municipales 2014

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It's round one of the local elections today.   Here  is an open letter written by the proprietors' organisation  Avenir et Animation...
Wednesday, 1 January 2014

WHAT'S NEW IN LES ARCS: Parking matters

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UPDATE: 12 Jan: You can buy your €50 "weekly ticket" from the new "parking chalet" at the foot of the steps below the f...
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Sunday, 25 November 2012

THERE IS POWER IN A UNION: L'Union des Propriéteres pour la Défense des Arcs

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An isolated town, which has just lost its army base.  A large ski resort with a surplus of studio apartments, mostly owned by private indivi...
Saturday, 26 May 2012

EN COLERE: Industrial Relations in the Mountains

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All may be well for those holidaying on the pistes, but the realities of working in the resorts - low pay, seasonal work, a flat market - ha...
Sunday, 29 April 2012

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: How they voted in Round One

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The first round of the election results are in.   Savoie is hardly a bellweather state - it is traditionally more to the right, and that...
Monday, 9 April 2012

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: How They Voted In 2007

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Not long now until the first round of the French Presidential Election.  Here's how France voted in round two back in 2007: Sarko v ...
Saturday, 10 December 2011

THE BIG SOCIETY AUX ARCS: Heated Debates

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We have endless books and articles in English about how much greener things are on the other side of the Channel.   "The quality of lif...