Femmes d’Europe a selfless group

IN the frequently male-dominated environment of the European Union an organisation calling itself Femmes d’Europe can be assumed to be a political one. Most would ask what else would survive?

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

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