Toby Helm talks about some of the problems involved in hosting a French President:
Yet French presidents are made of less sentimental stuff. At a press conference amid the splendour of the Long Room at Lancaster House, M Chirac remained studiously, gloriously above it all.[...]
M Chirac offered a lecture about how to be a good European. The key, he said, was to show respect to those who really mattered.
And they were the original founder members of the European Community - a team of six which includes France, but not Britain.
Despite this, it was not conceivable, M Chirac said, to imagine Europe moving forward without Britain. "It would be Europe that would be missing something," he said. It was just that Britain had to know its place.
Yeah, there's more.
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