From the Heart of Europe

The 1991 EUROBATS Agreement.

It is such a cool name for an international treaty. It would be a great question for a quiz - "What is the subject of the 1991 EUROBATS agreement, to which 30 European states have signed up?" You could spell out the name in full and people would never guess.

9) The English: A Portrait of a People, by Jeremy Paxman

As you would hope from the author, this is a witty, erudite, but very readable book about the English. Anyone who has contact with English people on a regular basis should read it. It is written, of course mainly for them, but we who observe them at close quarters will be amused and perhaps enlightened by Paxman's analysis of his own people.

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Anyway, that's what I thought. I hope none of you English people reading this are offended - I like most of you and I love some of you!