The French minister hits back, as an anti-Europe tone breaks out again in Britain
The trashing of Dominique Voynet, France’s environment minister, by Prescott and sections of the British press was astonishing. She was said to head a team of “French wreckers” who “sandbagged” Prescott. Or she was “too tired” to hammer out details of a compromise at the Hague implying she’d behaved “irrationally” before. What would you expect; French, a woman and an environmentalist – she might just as well have a couple of horns and a forked tail.
Full article: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/nov/28/comment.climatechange