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Nicolas Sarkozy (2011): A frustrated French President revealed in a magazine interview this week that he thought David Cameron 'behaved like an obstinate kid, with a single obsession: protecting the City. No country supported him. That is the mark of a political defeat. I manoeuvred well.'

A verbal war that is very one-sided

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The European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, said he hoped for a 'constructive' relationship with Britain

John Lichfield: If Cameron ups ante on the euro, things will get very nasty

Brussels believes the PM is ready to take a step back, and Jose Manuel Barroso said he hoped for a 'constructive' relationship

John Lichfield: Cameron has played a poor hand badly

Britain's future? Proud isolation: like the Cayman Islands, but without the weather

John Lichfield: Saving Europe will leave Britain on the edges, but the alternative is grim

Some of us remember when Europe was boring.

John Lichfield: Feud between Socialist rivals turns nasty

Sibling rivalry can be poisonous in politics, as the Labour Party knows

John Lichfield: True courage on the water

Notebook

John Lichfield: Changing times on the most famous avenue in the world

All is not bliss in the Elysian fields.

John Lichfield: Pleasures of the Norman table

Notebook

John Lichfield: The French more relaxed about sex? It's a myth

Dominique Strauss-Kahn will never be President of the Republic but his political and social legacy is secure. He has shaken France more profoundly from his prison cell and gilded judicial exile in New York than he could possibly have achieved from within the Élysée Palace.

John Lichfield: European unity is an ideal that is being crushed by crude nationalism

RIP, the European Dream. Born in Rome March 1957; died at the unlovely Franco-Italian border railway station of Ventimiglia, April 2011. OK, d'accord, ist ja gut, bene, the demise of the European adventure has been forecast many times before.

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Tommy Cassidy interview

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Winston Churchill and Evelyn Waugh hated his work, but Picasso provided inspiration for a whole generation of UK artists
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At 73, John Prescott isn't mellowing. In fact he's taking a shot at becoming a police commissioner