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23rd May 2013 Paris, France

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by Peter Ricketts

Ambassador to France from February 2012 to January 2016.

The Prime Minister’s first visit to the Elysée

Prime Minister David Cameron and President François Hollande in the Elysée, 22 May 2013. Credits: Présidence de la République

We’ve just had David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, in Paris for his first visit here to President Hollande since his election. They travelled down together from the European Council in the same train, and they were able to have a bilateral meeting as they were travelling.

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11th April 2013 Paris, France

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by Peter Ricketts

Ambassador to France from February 2012 to January 2016.

The death of an important British political figure

Lady Margaret Thatcher

Earlier this week, we were waiting for the arrival of David Cameron here in Paris, on what was going to be his first visit to President Hollande in the Elysée, when we had the sad news of Baroness Thatcher’s death. And David Cameron decided he had to go home straight away from Madrid, to get […]

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