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Beurre necessity
The Echiré cooperative has churned out butter for over a century. Some of the world’s best restaurants won’t use anything else. Monocle looks at what makes Echiré a better butter.
Europe
Why French bees love city life, Finland's broadband-for-all and we catch a glimpse of the motorcade of Bulgaria's prime minister, Boyko Borisov.
Defence
Russia turns to French and Dutch shipyards for new warships after admitting its own aren't up to the task, while modesty replaced lavishness at Europe's largest arms fair in London.
Basque in the sun
On the French Atlantic coast, shun the beach in favour of a tree-lined avenue and a delightful covered market, perfect for that most Gallic of pastimes: people-watching.
Europe
The Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov and his nightclub-bouncer style, why the French are busy making babies and the Italians are busy doing nothing.
Europe
How Sarkozy wings it in Me and My Motorcade, plus Luxembourg goes to the polls and bar room blues hit the UK.
How convenient
Chez Jean is a café, sassy superette and international newsstand rolled into one.
Defence
The French hoist the flag over the new military base in Abu Dhabi, fence yourself in army style and how to stope Iran getting a nuclear bomb (it wont be easy).
French twist
Monocle makes for a rendezvous in the quiet backstreets and canals of Paris’s 10th arrondissement in spring’s freshest ensembles for work days and weekends.
