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...main question on the agenda was what the French like to call le problème Britannique. Since Harold Wilson's Labor government was elected last February, the British have warned that they would not stay in the Market unless the terms of membership were revised to give them a better break on Community finances. (Britain claims that by 1980 it will pay 24% of the Market's budget, while it will have only 14% of the total EEC G.N.P...
...years le probléme de I'appartement has been a chief topic of French conversation. In the swank Neuilly and Passy districts of Paris there are many big new apartment buildings where an apartment can be bought for from 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 francs ($28,500), but cannot be rented: the contractors, short of liquid capital, demand a lump sum. In the suburbs, numbers of municipally owned apartment houses have gone up, but they are for functionaries and privileged workers, and the priority list is long. The great mass of French people looking...