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Organized Rage (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
When Pierre Lellouche, the Minister for Europe in the French government, recently said the position of the Tory Party led by David Cameron on the European Union is pathetic and displays a bizarre form of Autism. My first thought was he could be describing much of the UK left, which has a programe on Europe which is straight out of the 1970s and which takes no account of the massive economic and societal...
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Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
There’s been a rather wonderful debate bubbling along at the Guardian, about the French minister Pierre Lellouche’s use of the word ‘autistic’ to describe the English Tories. Well, in fact that’s not quite what the debate has been about; everyone is agreed that Lellouche is beyond the pale. The debate has been about whether or not the Guardian was right to report what...
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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
France's State Secretary for European Affairs Pierre Lellouche has arrived in Chisinau on Wednesday evening to hold a number of meetings with the new Moldovan authorities and to discuss further development of the bilateral Moldo-French relations. Already on Wednesday night he is scheduled to meet with Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat and Deputy Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration...
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World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
---Quote--- The Conservatives were accused by the French government tonight of "castrating" Britain's position within the EU by adopting an "autistic" approach that would take Britain off the radar. Speaking to the Guardian, Pierre Lellouche, France's Europe minister, described as "pathetic"...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The readers' editor on… reporting the misuse of 'autistic' on the front-page Pierre Lellouche 's use of "autistic", as a term of abuse directed at the Conservatives, made the front page on Thursday . The French minister also told the Guardian's Nicholas Watt that the Tories' plans were "castrating" Britain's position in the EU and that the party is "pathetic"....
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
French Minister for European Affairs Pierre Lellouche called for an early solution to the decades-old Cyprus problem on Saturday, adding Turkey's EU aspiration will be harmed if it refuses to recognize the Republic of Cyprus. Lellouche was on an official visit to Cyprus, representing French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the inaugural ceremony of a new passenger terminal at Larnaca International Airport....
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Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Its been yet another one of those in weeks in which the use of ‘offensive’ language has been making headlines in both the press and with at least one prominent blogger. The story that captured the media’s attention was, of course, Pierre Lellouche’s description of the Conservative Party’s attitude towards the European Union: “They have one line [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Autism (including Asperger syndrome) is a serious, lifelong and disabling condition. Comments such as those attributed to Pierre Lellouche, France's Europe minister ( Report , 5 November), are therefore extremely unhelpful. To use the terms autism and autistic in a derogatory or flippant manner can cause deep distress and hurt to people affected by the condition. The National Autistic Society is keen...
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Plato Says (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Plato was most intrigued when she read this headline in the Guardian" Pierre Lellouche's views on the Tories and the EU were not lost in translation French minister's spokesman blamed my poor grasp of French. But interview was conducted in English"Hmm, how interesting.Read the whole article here
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
France's economy minister believes her country's financial system helped it out of recession After more than a decade of lectures from Gordon Brown about the need to let markets rip, it is little wonder that the French are having the last laugh. As she relaxed in her room in the Dorchester in London ahead of Saturday's G20 meeting in Scotland, the French economy minister, Christine Lagarde, was quietly...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
French minister's spokesman blamed my poor grasp of French. But interview was conducted in English Pierre Lellouche, the French Europe minister, has clearly been experiencing an uncomfortable 24 hours after he let rip at the Tories' approach to Europe in an interview with me . Amid Tory fury – William Hague condemned Lellouche's remarks as an "emotional outburst" – the minister...
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Tongue Tied 3 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
"Autistic" OK in France but not in Britain We read: "Pierre Lellouche, a minister with a reputation for a sharp tongue, deeply regretted causing offence by calling British Tories autistic, but he also blamed his interviewer’s poor grasp of French, according to his spokesman. “Pierre Lellouche fully understands the emotion that has been aroused and bitterly regrets that he...
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Same Difference (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Pasted word for word with full links comes this brilliant CIF article by loving mother Charlotte Moore. She and her sons have my best wishes. “They have one line and they just repeat one line. It is a very bizarre sense of autism.” Pierre Lellouche, the French minister for Europe, made headlines with his attack on [...]
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Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The original report of this man’s manic rant was carried by the Guardian [see my “French politician makes rabid attack on Tories” sent late 4/11/09] Clearly the man has had his head banged comprehensively against a brick wall. Satisfying innit? Christina ================================= BBC ONLINE 5.11.09 French minister bids to calm row French minister Pierre Lellouche has said...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
If war is the continuation of politics by other means, the converse is also true. There are times when diplomatic words are fashioned into a weapon of attack, as France's Europe minister, Pierre Lellouche , demonstrated this week by telling the Guardian how "autistic" Tory plans to repatriate EU powers would "castrate" the nation, words surely designed to maximise collateral damage,...
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