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Thursday 26 June, 2008

French Presidency Preparations 2: planes, trains and automobiles

Rich - in answer to your question on 25th: the normal and preferred option from London is to use the Eurostar - simpler, quicker and more environmentally friendly.  If I am going to Paris or Brussels from Scotland (where my constituency is) I fly, but any FCO officials attending the same meetings usually use the Eurostar.This week I travelled by Eurostar. 

Posted at 16:09 26 June 2008 by Jim Murphy  |  Comments[3]

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Do you wear a badge that says "Minister of the Year" and then act like David Brent by saying "oh what this? It's nothing. Just Minister of the Year that's all."

Posted by Justin on June 27, 2008 at 05:24 PM BST #

Hello - Jim Murphy! For new milennium I changed over to EuroStar Waterloo for Brussels Midi. But if arriving late, one is able merely to continue to Liege, Vervier, or Welkenraedt that evening. Due in-wintertime kindnesses, was given places of improved resting. But it was made impossible by GermanBundesbahnen to carry on: be-de-at to Wien-direct as in old connects via Dover-Ostend Express. Even if off early from Eurostar at new St.Pancras, travelling high-speed one still has to spend nights in cold Aix, colder Cologne, coldest Francfort costing excessively Brouxelles-Wien West. And on return journey in winter, one must be back for EuroStar early. Booked return must not be missed. It has been an opportunity to see the Capital of Belgium - and "of the EU"/pinch of salt. I then walk on foot from Gare du Midi to the EU Parliament. Some MEPs might consider such virtue for their own health – for EU co-operative effort in social-market subsidiarity and by democratic solidarity.

Posted by Stefan Peter. on July 12, 2008 at 03:48 PM BST #

Dear Jim Murphy - no one seems to ask questions? That is why each human security ever-overrides pseudo democratic values: not backed by protection of minorities and groupings of those helpless co-citizens of planet earth. Hence "the EU" must prioritise its ethos of cooperative effort for benefit of each with all concerned: What's here meant by "social-market subsidiarity"? It merely asks for a cooperative social market inherent at every level of subsidiarity, within that level, and if need be across adjacent and total levels of best economic social, but flexible practice! What's here meant by EU "democratic solidarity"? It merely points to an EU/Europe democratic ethos by a governance to benefit the whole people shaped by an honest representative democracy cum structured process in institutions of service inspired by what can/must remain 'the common good'!

Posted by Stefan Peter. on July 29, 2008 at 01:05 PM BST #

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