No matter which candidate wins this spring's French presidential elections, French foreign policy is likely to remain what it has been for three decades: proudly European and prepared to keep Anglo-Saxon influences at arm's length.

Surely some African sides have benefited from European tactical nous over the past few decades?

I'd have called it a European decade... starting off with Nikita and Agnieska Holland's Europa, Europa, filled with great French and Spanish releases, and crowned by Kieslowski's Three colours trilogy.

Her defence, economic and political policies were out of tune with the spirit of the coming European decade.

A third phase of the Marteau production began after the European decades of 1689-1721 with the nationalistic turn of the 1720s and 1730s.

In 13 tightly-argued recommendations, we have made a cogent case for a new priority for health as part of a European decade for health, which will truly begin to meet the real needs of our citizens.

The kind of traditionalist defence against a sufficiently close approach of modernity, which once provided much of the social base for the nationalism of Hroch's 'phase B', hardly survived the European decades since 1950, the most revolutionary in the world's economic history.