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HAVE you ever checked how much it costs to use your credit card in a cash machine when in France? Many card issuers charge a higher rate of interest and you may also lose your 56-day interest free period that applies, for example, to normal shop purchases. Barclaycard charge customers... Read more →
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DOING the research before buying can make all the difference to how successful your time in France will be. And with the increasing number of books covering a property purchase in France you can start investigating before you have looked at your first house. The second edition of Charles Davey’s... Read more →
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NEARLY one in four people aged under-25 are unemployed in France according to the latest figures from the Ministère du Travail. In March the number of young people looking for work rose by 1.3 per cent, meaning that 23.1 % of people under 25 are unemployed. Overall there was a... Read more →
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HERE’S a quick trip around the web with a collection of articles about schooling, strikes and property in France. The Spiked website takes a look at changing attitudes to the way children are taught in France. Whilst the Guardian highlights the growing resistance to the government’s plans to turn a... Read more →
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TONY Blair has given his clearest indication yet that the UK will not adopt the euro in the next Parliament should the Labour Party win the general election. Speaking on Sky News the prime minister said that if the economic conditions were not right there would be no reason to... Read more →
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THE price of gas in France is set to rise by 7 to 8 per cent later this year the Ministry of the Economy has said. Ministry chief Thierry Breton, right, said the increase, which will come into effect on July 1, was due to the rising price of oil... Read more →
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A MOVE to France is very often a new start for people, but unfortunately old problems can resurface and cause real heartache. The Times website features a very interesting article about the difficulties families and couples face when they head to France. For those with children it is the parents... Read more →
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THE Brits may soon be elbowed out of the property market as the rest of Europe looks to snap up a second home. In its European Housing Review, The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) claim more people are purchasing second homes, either in their own country, or abroad. However,... Read more →
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AROUND 100,000 people turned up this morning to watch the Airbus A380 take to the sky for its maiden flight. The giant aeroplane took off from Toulouse Airport at 10:30 to cheers and rounds of applause from spectators. The A380’s flight is expected to last a few hours as tests... Read more →
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ALTHOUGH many French towns have a character all of their own, on the outskirts they can all look a bit similar. There will be a supermarket or two, cut-price stores, maybe a cheap hotel, with any number of petrol stations, plant shops and chain restaurants. And environment minister Serge Lepeltier... Read more →
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