The Suitcase: Part Two

Frances Stonor Saunders, 13 August 2020

... Fifty British and French engineers and their families were swiftly expelled, among them Pierre Angot, identified in the captured documents as a member of the co-ordinating ‘general staff’ of the Deuxième Bureau (the equivalent of MI6), which was working alongside British intelligence.Angot was the technical director of Steaua Romana, and worked ...

Ever Closer Union?

Perry Anderson, 7 January 2021

... the court, setting an energetic example himself.In all this he was seconded from 1967 onwards by Pierre Pescatore, another kin appointment, brother-in-law of the prime minister of Luxembourg and a more outspoken and prolific champion of federalism even than Lecourt – his legal opinions serving in the words of one witness as the ‘shock troops’ of ...