ENA Head Aims To Reform Selection Process

Achieving greater social diversity among the high-powered students at the Ecole Nationale de l'Administration is one of the challenges facing the prestigious school for France's elite…


France Confirms Crackdown Policies on Terror Networks, Radicalisation

France is preparing tough, judicial measures to deal with terrorists, dangerous “jihadists” and those who justify “Jihad,” French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira…


CNIL Chief Briefs AAPA On Digital Europe, Privacy and Security

How best to defend individual freedom, privacy and “the right to be forgotten” in a context of increased focus on public security and the fight against terrorism were the core topics when more…


New Year's Greetings from the AAPA

Paris, January 5, 2015.   As we head into what promises to be another exciting and active year at the AAPA, I wanted to communicate my hopes and tentative plans with you for the coming…


AAPA’s AGM Sets a Road Map for the Future

Making the AAPA more socially relevant to its members was the main theme of our 2014 Annual General Meeting, held on Dec. 17 once again chez John Morris, our doyen member.   Opening the…


French Finance Minister Urges UK to Stay in EU

  Britain and the European Union as a whole would lose out if the U.K. were to opt to leave the EU, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin has warned.   “If the UK forfeits its place in the EU,…


AAPA Member Marcia Lord Dies

Determined, intelligent, lively, curious, outspoken, kind and generous are only a few of the adjectives to describe AAPA member Marcia Lord who passed away October 22 at the…


France's top rabbi alarmed by anti-Semitic attacks

  After a summer heated by protests over the Israeli offensive in Gaza and the growing clout of militant Islam, France's chief rabbi is raising the alarm over rising…


D-Day Veteran Charles Hargrove Dies At 92

Charles Hargrove, a long-standing AAPA member who took part in the D-Day landings, died at his Paris home on Sept. 19 aged 92. Charles was foreign correspondent for…


AAPA Pays Tribute to John Morris

Many more images of the John Morris event are available at: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/106700829338050700067/photos/+ClaussenFinksCreativeUlm/albums/6080839223978580305 British Ambassador Sir Peter Ricketts pays…