Aurélie sous le soleil Maltais

Aurelie Herbemont is a French journalism intern working for the Malta Independent on Sunday. She blogs about her stay in Malta at Aurélie sous le soleil maltais (with photos). In her latest article for the sunday paper, she wrote about French ex pats in Malta who will vote in next sunday's referendum in which France will decide about the European constitution. She discussed the French European dilemma at length in a previous article:

The French who live in Malta are generally afraid that a No vote would only be for political reasons specific to the current French political climate, even if it sounds ridiculous to vote against the Constitution just to show Jacques Chirac and his government that you don’t agree with them. Many French people living here think it is a “primary reaction”, which is true. However what is also true is the fact that the French abroad don’t really feel like the French in France. “These reasons are bad. We cannot say No to Europe just because we disagree with the French government. It is nonsense.” Reactions here are really hard towards the French who want to scupper Europe only because of home problems...

France and the European constitution - John Simpson - BBC

Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe - Wikipedia

au pays du père noel.. - "A côté de ça, malte est véritablement un microcosme, un havre de paix - un jardin d’Eden presque!" - Aurelie Herbemont

Ewrocucati - Antoine Cassar