An English town council has decided to end a 46-year twinning relationship with towns in France and Germany. Is it euroscepticism, or has the twinning of towns become anachronistic and irrelevant?
In September, the Conservative-dominated council of English market town Bishop's Stortford voted by 13 votes to 3 to wash its hands of Villiers-sur-Marne in France and Friedberg in Germany, its twin towns since 1965.
At the end of November, they wrote to inform their French and German twins that the relationship was over. Villiers-sur-Marne and Friedberg were taken by surprise.
According to Thursday’s edition of left-leaning UK daily the Guardian, the “vote appears to be the latest manifestation of grassroots euroscepticism” that has taken hold in Conservative Britain.
http://www.france24.com/en/20111202-english-town-severs-links-with-its-french-german-twins-councilFor some obscure reason Watford where I live is twinned with 5 towns : Mainz, Germany, Nanterre, France, Novgorod, Russia , Wilmington, Delaware and Pesaro, Italy. Not sure why we need five. I remember reading that Norwich had simply twinned itself with Norwich. :rofl:
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