31.01.2012
Provence & Côte d'Azur: RFP Director Yves Derrien talks 2012
As readers from The Riviera Times know, RFP is a very transparent financial adviser and all comments on financial markets and articles can be checked during the months after they have been published on our website. We concluded our article in The Rivera Times January 2011 as follows: "Consequently, we remain very careful and we prefer to wait before investing again on stock markets".Read more … Investing in the future
20.01.2012
Provence & Côte d'Azur: A decade of the euro currency... Report from The Riviera Times’ political commentator in Paris
It was on New Year's Day 10 years ago that the euro turned into coins and banknotes in the pockets of the citizens of 11 countries.
In the weeks before, the dire predictions had resembled those of 2000 when the "Millennium Bug'' had been forecast to freeze computer systems and cause jumbo jets to crash at midnight on 1st January - especially when they flew across the dateline - and so on and so forth.Read more … Not Such a Happy Birthday
24.11.2011
France: RFP Director Yves Derrien talks investments
Everybody has heard about savings, stocks or bonds, but banks are actually very innovative. We would like to introduce you to 10 types of investment you are probably not familiar with. Here are the first five. Next month, we will present the next five.
Read more … 10 unusual financial products
15.11.2011
Provence & Côte d'Azur: The Riviera Times’ political commentator in Paris
The autumn rentrée belonged to the French Socialist Party. It took a majority in the Senate for the first time in the 52-year history of the Fifth Republic; then, it successfully carried out primaries to choose the candidate to face Nicolas Sarkozy in presidential elections next spring, giving François Hollande, a former party chief, a resounding victory.
Read more … Momentum on the Left
12.10.2011
Latest figures issued by the FNAIM (France’s national federation of real estate agents) show that prices for ancien (over five years old) properties in France outside the Paris area slowed down in the last quarter. Read more … Property prices slow
21.09.2011
The Parc Chanot in Marseille is once again the venue for Marseille’s big early autumn ‘Ideal Home Exhibition’, la Foire Internationale de Marseille, running from 23 rd September to 3rd October.Read more … Ideal Home Exhibition in Marseille
21.08.2011
Columns: A girl from Oz finding her feet with cordon bleu culture
In what I took at first as a huge compliment, and evidence of having successfully fooled everyone into believing I am a proper grown up, I was bequeathed my delinquent 16-year old sister for the summer. Her failing grades and daily threats that she would quit school before graduation were severe enough to panic our father and convince him to put her on a flight to Europe. As I write this she is currently MIA, having ‘runaway’.Read more … This month: Generations of socca and sisterhood
17.08.2011
Political Column: by Julian Nundy -The Riviera Times’ political commentator in Paris
When the French Socialist Party's leading hope was arrested on sexual assault charges in New York, the Sofitel hotel, where he was staying, informed its Paris headquarters. The Accor hotel group's security chief immediately then phoned the news through to President Nicolas Sarkozy's office. d.Read more … Plots and issues
11.08.2011
Column: Girl about town: RT's English editor, Hannah Marshall, on why, even though we may as well be a million miles away, British expats on the French Riviera are by no means unaffected by the riots in the UK
Yesterday I was interviewed about the riots in the UK by a French radio station. The fact that I was asked to comment struck me as strange at first, “I’m not there, I’m in France, what can I say?” was my initial thought. Read more … London calling
12.07.2011
Political Column: by Julian Nundy -The Riviera Times’ political commentator in Paris
At first, the affair looked like Manna from Heaven for Nicolas Sarkozy and his Union for a Popular Movement party, or UMP. In the space of one weekend in May, his main opponent in next year's presidential election was eliminated and humiliated.Read more … No gift from the gods
