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Hidden amidst the cultural pick-n-mix of the summer festival season in Europe, which is chockablock with music, theater, dance, and other tasteful offerings, are some more unusual, often downright nutty [...]

Hollywood is not just a planet; it is an entire universe, dominated by a bright galaxy of stars. Ever since this glittering fantasy world was created in a suburb of [...]

Ten towns and cities in France are in a frenzy of activity, getting ready to host the 1998 World Cup to be held June 10-July 12. They are building welcome [...]

A country-by-country review of taxation in Europe reveals the specific developments in each country in the continent. In the UK, the most significant news is the elimination of tax officers available to help with the self-assessment tax approach, which some find too difficult to do without aid. Over in Italy, excessive taxation and government bureaucracy are blamed for the high rate of tax evasion. The tax environments in Austria, Belgium, Holland, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, France, Greece, Luxembourg and Sweden are also discussed.

Our position on the edge of the Mediterranean makes us not only Europe's neighbor, but also that of the Middle East and Africa, and the port and airport connect us [...]

There was a time when the only business France was interested in minding was its own. Within the last 10 years that attitude has changed dramatically, and foreign investors are [...]

It must be something in the water. Somewhere among the many fountains that murmur and splash in its public squares and private gardens and that have earned Aix-en-Provence the title [...]

Given its different identities in the past and the various roles it plays in the present, it would not be surprising if Strasbourg suffered from a split personality. It is [...]

Each of our 12 Capitals correspondents present their choice for European of the Year for their own country. The criteria chosen by EUROPE was for the writers to select a [...]

My personal stress level can be measured by the number of long, hot baths I take: some days, only the fear of being permanently prune-skinned gets me out of the [...]

Visiting the French Alps when they are not covered by their winter blanket of snow is like seeing a black-and-white movie transformed by Technicolor. You drive through green meadows where [...]

For the past six years, I have been living an intense love affair in full view of my husband. He approves. That is because the object of my infatuation is [...]

In the last half of the twentieth century, when I was growing up, travel started to take on the dreamlike ease of a magic-carpet ride. Airplanes, which used to take [...]

Not even Ebenezer Scrooge, that old grouch, could be cynical about Christmas if he were in London these days. The city fairly hums with energy, glows with festive spirit, and [...]

The city of Thessaloniki in northern Greece plans to strengthen its image as the Cultural Capital of Europe with the implementation of a cultural program for 1997. These include the Thessaloniki 97 art exhibit and the holding of various concerts featuring rock and classical music. In addition, religious artifacts from various monasteries in Mount Athos will be shown to the public for the first time.

Cliches exist for a reason. Not for nothing have 'April' and 'Paris' been paired so often that the two words are forever wedded, and together conjure up romantic visions of [...]

Viking raiders first sailed up the Guinness-colored river Liffey more than 1,000 years ago and set up a trading post at a village which the locals called Dubh Linn (Irish [...]

Vienna is the musical dowager of Europe. No other city has produced and performed more great music, and nowhere else keeps the memory of its glorious musical past more proudly [...]

SIZE, AS WE KNOW, IS not everything. In the past, the Languedoc-Roussillon region, which is the world's largest vineyard, was a huge embarrassment to the French wine industry. Cheap rotgut [...]

WITH PARIS AS THE UNDISPUTED MATRIARCH OF FRANCE, the many charms of Lyon, 280 miles to the southeast, have established her as the seductive 'other' city. She is no brainless [...]

The 2001 Veuve Clicquot award for French businesswoman of the year went to Ann-Charlotte Pasquier, who makes a lucrative living out of teaching French women the art of seduction. A [...]

The bride wore a multicolored dress guaranteed not to melt in the hand. The gown, made out of M&M's, surely every bridegroom's dream, was one of twenty-one designs that prove [...]

A Culinary Odyssey It was Napoleon who reportedly said that an army marches on its stomach. Certainly food is never far from the mind of any Frenchman, and not only [...]

It began a decade ago, as a mission impossible, in a harsh climate of hostility and almost daily confrontations. It is nearing completion, in the first balmy days of spring, [...]

Question: 'By which date can you no longer use the French franc?' According to a recent telephone survey conducted by the French news weekly L'Expansion, only 44 percent of the [...]

Love and a louse make strange bedfellows, but in the Provencal town of Roquemaure the two are intimately linked. Phylloxera, the dreaded grape louse, all but wiped the village off [...]

No matter how you calculate it--starting with a zero or with a one--we are now well and truly starting a new millennium. There will be a lot more of us [...]

Firefighters on both sides of the Atlantic endured a long, hot, dangerous summer. As the western US suffered the worst season for forest fires in half a century, with an [...]

The French will want to strangle me with an Hermes scarf for divulging this, but haute couture was started by an Englishman. Charles Frederick Worth, born in 1825, became fascinated [...]

No other country attacked its nobility with more bloodthirsty gusto than the French did 200 years ago. Yet, in spite of all the aristocratic heads that rolled during the French [...]

One of this year's Capitals of Culture this Southern French City Seduces By nature, Avignon is a drama queen. Poised theatrically above the Rhone River, which lies at its feet [...]

The headlines go to the likes of Lance Armstrong, the wiry cyclists with calves of steel who pedal all around France in less than a month in a blur of [...]

How are Europe's schools challenging children? Put fifteen Europeans, one each from the European Union member countries, in one room and one of the rare is sues on which they [...]

The comparison with runner Marie-Jos[acute{e}] P[acute{e}]rec is inevitable. Born in Guadeloupe, cover-girl pretty, winner of two gold metals in the Olympics: Laura Flessel, twenty-eight, the fencing champion of the 1996 [...]

Among Europe's nine cultural muses for the year 2000, the port of Bergen (pop. 230,000), gateway to the flords of western Norway, is one of three cities to be chosen [...]

One of Europe's nine cultural muses for the year 2000, Santiago de Compostela, in northern Spain, (population 80,000), less than fifty miles from the westernmost tip of Europe (Cape Finisterre, [...]

No doubt luck played a part--a huge amount of luck--being in the right place at the right time, with the right story. I think it's also because it was not [...]

In Greek mythology, there were nine muses who inspired poets and other artists. In Europe, nine cities have been chosen to stimulate cultural creativity in the year 2000: Three in [...]

Perched on a hillside in Provence, between the towns of Gordes and Apt, the village of Roussillon is a splendid example of how you can really paint the town red. [...]

After dark is the best time to arrive in Prague, when the city is wearing its evening jewelry of lights. Strings of them line the Vltava River that flows through [...]

Two French writers, both born in 1947 and stylishly left-wing, will be onboard the Literature Express Europe 2000. Olivier Rolin, the more widely known of the two, holds a degree [...]

ONE HUNDRED WRITERS ON A TRANSCONTINENTAL MISSION 'Are we building a new Tower of Babel or a house in which all of Europe's cultures can live together in harmony?' That [...]

As of January, teenage girls in France can go to the school nurse and ask her for a pill that does a lot more than cure the odd headache. French [...]

It's 2100 and fifty years have passed since the world's top scientists emerged from the Emergency Earth Summit in Santiago de Chile with the grim announcement that our planet was [...]

In January and February, I predict that analysts will have more patients than ever stacked up on their couches, with a virulent new strain of the New Year's blues. Anyone [...]

At first glance, it looked like your average beauty contest. The five finalists were the usual bevy of gorgeous young women, well endowed in the talent department, too. Two of [...]

One occupational hazard that threatens doctors in France more than any of their colleagues in other countries is writers' cramp. At the end of each patient's visit, be it for [...]