Belgium is a country in Europe and member of major international organizations like the European Union and NATO which are both headquartered in Brussels,Belgium.
Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
Sir Laurence Stanley Charles Bristow is a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to Afghanistan between June and November 2021,notably during the fall of Kabul. He served as British Ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2004 to 2007 and British Ambassador to Russia from 2016 to 2020. He is now President of Hughes Hall,Cambridge.
Denise Campbell Bauer is an American diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to France and Monaco. Bauer served as Ambassador of the United States to Belgium from 2013 to 2017. After being nominated by President Barack Obama,she was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate on August 2,2013;she was sworn in the following August 7. She left office on January 20,2017. A member of the Democratic Party,she was the executive director of Women for Biden.
Barr's Hill School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Radford,Coventry,England.
Juxtaposed controls are a reciprocal arrangement between Belgium,France,the Netherlands and the United Kingdom whereby border controls on certain cross-Channel routes take place before boarding the train or ferry,rather than upon arrival after disembarkation. With the exception of the Eurotunnel Shuttle route,customs checks remain unaffected by juxtaposed immigration controls and continue to take place upon arrival after disembarkation. Belgium,France and the Netherlands are all member states of the European Union and part of the border-free Schengen Area. The United Kingdom,on the other hand,has never participated in the Schengen Area,even when it was a member state of the European Union. As a result,juxtaposed controls aim to increase the convenience and efficiency of border checks when travelling by train or ferry between the Schengen Area and the UK by removing the need for immigration checks on arrival and by streamlining checks on departure. At the same time,juxtaposed controls are intended to detect and prevent illegal immigration. In 2016,there were over 56,000 instances when people were refused entry to the UK at the juxtaposed controls.
Sir Timothy Earle Barrow is a British diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union from 2017 to 2020 and as the British Ambassador to the European Union from 2020 to 2021. He currently serves as National Security Adviser.
British migration to France has resulted in France being home to one of the largest British-born populations outside the United Kingdom. Migration from the UK to France has increased rapidly from the 1990s onwards. Estimates of the number of British citizens living in France vary from 261,000 to 400,000. Besides Paris,many British expatriates tend to be concentrated in the regions of southern France,Brittany,and recently the island of Corsica. Dordogne has a large British immigrant community. The region has between 5,000 and 10,000 British residents and 800 British entrepreneurs,drawn by the French lifestyle,warm climate,and lower cost of living.
Julie Elizabeth Smith,Baroness Smith of Newnham is an academic specialising in European politics and a Liberal Democrat politician. From 2003 to 2015,she was a local councillor on Cambridge City Council. Since September 2014,she has been a life peer and a member of the House of Lords.
Joyce Maire Reynolds was a British classicist and academic,specialising in Roman historical epigraphy. She was an honorary fellow of Newnham College,Cambridge. She dedicated her life to the study and teaching of Classics and was first woman to be awarded the Kenyon medal by the British Academy. Among Reynolds' most significant publications were texts from the city of Aphrodisias,including letters between Aphrodisian and Roman authorities.
Sylvie-Agnès Bermann is a French former career diplomat who served as the ambassador of France to the United Kingdom,ambassador of France to Russia,and as French ambassador to China in Beijing from 2011 until 2014. She previously served as director for United Nations,International Organizations,Human Rights and Francophony at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development in Paris.
The Institut français du Royaume-Uni is a branch of the Institut français,which represents and promotes French learning and culture in the United Kingdom. It is situated in London's South Kensington at Queensberry Place,a turning off Cromwell Road,facing the Natural History Museum.
Dame Antonia Rebecca Caroline Angharad Catherine Romeo is a British civil servant. She is currently serving as the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Justice and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. She was the permanent secretary at the Department for International Trade and before that,the British consul-general in New York for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and concurrently director-general for economic and commercial affairs in the USA.
Catriona Jane Seth,FBA is a British scholar of French literature and the history of ideas. Since 2015,she has been Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College,Oxford.
Alexandra Mary Hall Hall is a former British diplomat.
Alison Mary Blake,is a British diplomat who is currently serving as Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. She previously served as High Commissioner to Bangladesh and Ambassador to Afghanistan.
Hugh Stephen Murray Elliott is a British diplomat,currently serving as the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Spain and non-resident Ambassador Extraordinary to Andorra since 2019. Prior to this,he was Director for Communications at the Department for Exiting the European Union.
Nigel Philip Casey is a British diplomat,who has been His Majesty's Ambassador to the Russian Federation since November 2023. He served as the British Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina from September 2011 until 2013,and then as the British High Commissioner to South Africa from April 2017 until April 2021. From May 2021 to 2023,was concurrently the Foreign Office's Director for Afghanistan and as the Prime Minister's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
