It is essential to promote family meals, with parents and children eating together.

One fundamental distinction that can be made is between southern and northern Europe, i.e. between areas forming part of the so-called ‘wet culture’ - in which, according to an age-old tradition passed on through the generations from each person’s earliest childhood, wine is served with food, is something to be drunk with pleasure and to be taken in moderation, and forms part of the local cultural and traditional heritage - and the ‘dry’ culture - in which, as a result of the mood-changing properties attributed to alcohol and the fact that it is not consumed as a part of normal day-to-day patterns, alcohol is drunk outside meal times, ge ...[+++]nerally at weekends and in huge quantities for the purpose of losing one's social inhibitions and escaping the conformism and rigidity imposed by social mores.

In the event of cancellation, passengers have the right to compensation, under certain conditions, as well as assistance (food, and accommodation if the proposed alternative flight is on the following day) and the possibility of reimbursement or re-routing to the final destination according to the passenger’s choice.

Mr Gbagbo himself, who was very friendly and very pleasant and who, during a meal which we were invited to in the presidential palace itself, explained to us his view of the problem, he said things in the presence of many of us who were there – no less than 10 or 15 people – which I believe do not point in the right direction, such as, for example, that he had to strengthen his army and that he had plans to buy certain military materials in the countries of the East. We believe that this is the completely wrong direction.

The workers are invited to the table but they cannot join in. They cannot take part in the meal and cannot take part in the decision-making. They are simply informed of the decision that is to be taken and, once it is taken, the document provided by the workers is just seen as another document – similar to what the Council does when Parliament has a consultative role – and then the decision is reached without any account being taken of the workers’ opinions.

assistance with transport costs, accommodation, meals and access to cultural resources on the same basis as host country citizens; and