DesertFox
04-14-2006, 04:23 PM
Emma Kate Symons
The Australian
14 Apr 06
"FRENCH people don't like youth. You have to be old to be credible. They love kids, youth is another thing." For Nathalie Gasdoue, a Parisian film-maker by profession and a long-term expatriate by choice, France is a nation that is driving its best and brightest young people to seek a better life abroad.
Gasdoue spent 11 years studying and producing films in London. She is one of more than one million young French under 35, a figure that has quadrupled in a decade, who last year chose to live in a foreign country. Some will never return.
Or as former French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told British Prime Minister Tony Blair: "We send you all our young people and we are getting all your elderly."
More (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18814682-2703,00.html)
The Australian
14 Apr 06
"FRENCH people don't like youth. You have to be old to be credible. They love kids, youth is another thing." For Nathalie Gasdoue, a Parisian film-maker by profession and a long-term expatriate by choice, France is a nation that is driving its best and brightest young people to seek a better life abroad.
Gasdoue spent 11 years studying and producing films in London. She is one of more than one million young French under 35, a figure that has quadrupled in a decade, who last year chose to live in a foreign country. Some will never return.
Or as former French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told British Prime Minister Tony Blair: "We send you all our young people and we are getting all your elderly."
More (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18814682-2703,00.html)