Marine Le Pen causes a stir on Marr 

It’s Remembrance Sunday and Marine Le Pen has just appeared on the Andrew Marr show to hail a new world order.

The timing of the interview has opened the BBC to some criticism, with the National Front leader attacking NATO, discussing her father’s Holocaust comments, and waxing lyrical about Putin on a day the nation remember those who sacrificed themselves to secure our freedom.

In the interview, Le Pen said that Donald Trump’s win ought to be seen as ‘an additional stone in the building of a new world destined to replace the old one’ …

Read the Full Story: Marine Le Pen causes a stir on Marr | Coffee House

“Europe can no longer rely on the U.S. for its security”

The Belgian PM Charles Michel advocates a stronger European Union in the area of defence.

 

“It is no longer possible to rely just on the United States for our own security”, he told the VRT’s Sunday morning news show ‘De Zevende Dag’. Michel also called Donald Trump a “strange candidate”.

The upcoming American defence policies are triggering concerns among other NATO members. Will they have to contribute more? Trump repeatedly said that other members should do more than they are doing now. Michel understands the criticism. “In Europe, we haven’t seen enough investements in defence over the past decades. And it’s not just Belgium, in this respect. But the will is there to do more.”

 

Source: “Europe can no longer rely on the U.S. for its security” | News | Expatica Belgium

In neighbourhood targeted by Paris attacks, “something has changed forever”

To mark the first anniversary of a series of coordinated Islamic State group attacks on the French capital, commemorations were held at each of the sites targeted. France 24 visited Paris’s 11th district to see how life has changed for residents.

Source: In neighbourhood targeted by Paris attacks, “something has changed forever” – France 24

Chanson Du Jour: La Gadoue

It’s raining this Sunday morning, while we are visiting with our lovely and loving Seattle family. What french chanson is better fit today than “La Gadoue?” Petula Clark had a modest hit with this Serge Gainsbourg composition in 1966. I love this 1996 version sung by Jane Birken accompanied by French folk-punk band Les Negresses Verte.

Chanson Du Jour 11/13/2016 “La Gadoue” – Jane Birkin and Les Negresses Verte