In this cinematic first-person essay about Israel, the Brussels-born and Paris-based director Chantal Akerman uses a lightweight video camera the way an artist uses a sketchpad to capture visual thoughts on the wing.
All the same, if there are substantial and eye-catching changes to the convention text, or if (as seems quite likely) the inter-governmental conference simply fails to reach agreement on time next month, there will be much hand-wringing in Brussels, Paris and Berlin.
Cross-channel ferries and the Eurostar trains that connect London with Brussels, Paris and points beyond are currently full to bursting with short-haul flyers returning home and businessmen who have no alternative but to travel.
Passenger numbers on the high-speed train between London, Brussels and Paris fell 1% to 2.6 million between July and September, which the train operator said was because "tourists who were not going to the Games were encouraged to avoid London".
Perhaps it's better to recognize that most solutions to America's problems--now and in the future--will be concocted not in Brussels, Berlin or Paris, but at home.
It only has one recognized high-speed link: the recently-opened stretch of Eurostar track to Paris and Brussels.
British Airways will also launch a new business-only airline following the deal between either Paris or Brussels and New York's JFK airport this summer.
It sounds pleasingly grand, but history counsels caution: Britain's only existing high-speed line (which connects London with Paris and Brussels via the Channel Tunnel) has failed to attract as many passengers as hoped.
Meanwhile the Eurostar high-speed train has resumed its service between London, Paris and Brussels but with delays.
Magritte, distressed by Breton-worship during a brief sojourn in Paris, returned home to Brussels to do his own thing.
High-speed train operator Eurostar, which runs services linking Paris, Brussels and London, among other destinations, has canceled the rest of its services Tuesday and told passengers to stay at home.
High-speed train operator Eurostar, which runs services linking Paris, Brussels and London, among other destinations, has canceled the rest of its services Tuesday and urged passengers to stay at home.
In this view, common in Paris, Berlin and Brussels, the crisis may have a beneficial side-effect if it makes America seek more equal relations with its European allies.
Throughout his life, from a poor home in Paris through night-school classes in economics to his pre-Brussels spell as France's minister of finance, he has been a pragmatist who has got things done.
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