Femmes d’Europe an old-fashioned body in a modern world

IN the frequently testosterone-charged environment of the European Union, an organisation calling itself Femmes d’Europe can be assumed to be political. What else would survive? most would ask.

But this organisation is one of the old-fashioned kind, made up of wives of diplomats, civil servants and industrialists, men who for the most part run the EU.

They do what wives in such organisations do, raise money for good causes, not just in the EU countries but in the Third World also.