Press Releases

  • The Financial Crisis and its Effects on the Real Economy

    Friday 14 December
     The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Rt. Hon. Vince Cable MP opened this seminar with a thought provoking speech

  • Franco-British Defence Cooperation First Annual Conference

    Thursday 31 March
    The Franco-British Council held the first FBC Annual Defence Conference at the French Ambassador's Residence in London.The November 2010 bilateral summit has set a road map for a significant

  • Beyond GDP; Towards a Better Measurement of National Well-Being

    Wednesday 2 February
    The FBC, supported by the International Institute for Environment and Development,  brought together leading politicians, economists and philosophers from France and Great Britain, to discuss the French

  • Diversity 2.0

    Wednesday 20 January
     On the anniversary of Obama's inauguration delegates from France and the UK have met to get to work on some of the big issues facing our societies: How can we create opportunities in employment

  • Agriculture and Rural life: One model or several?

    Monday 30 March
    Convened on the eve of the G20 summit in London, this seminar in London was chaired jointly by the Rt Hon Baroness Joyce Quin, former Minister of Agriculture and Marion Guillou, Chair of the INRA

  • Public Service Reform

    Thursday 11 December
    This seminar, chaired by SE Jean Gueguinou and Professor Alan Alexander (left) asked if moves to liberalise the economy necessarily involved a US/Blairite "new public management" approach. Changes were

  • Heritage and Patrimoine, Institut National du Patrimoine, Paris.

    Friday 21 November
    This seminar was chaired by Professor John Rogister with Genevieve Gallot, director of the Institut National du Patrimoine (shown right with Jean-Michel Léniaud). The debate centred around how we can determine

  • Energy, the Environment and Competitiveness

    Thursday 10 April
    This timely seminar, chaired by Dr Camilla Toulmin and Christian De Boissieu, provided an opportunity for experts to build on the recent Sarkozy/Brown summit discussions on how the two countries could work together

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