The Blue Eiffel Tower
 

On occasion I check out ABCparislive.com to see a live feed of the Eiffel Tower. I noticed today that it is lit up in a beautiful shade of blue. Is it some kind of holiday today?

It is for the 20th birthday of Europe! :-)
Also in blue : l’Arc de Triomphe, le Ministère des Affaires étrangères, l’Assemblée Nationale et le Sénat.

If you can read French :
http://www.feteleurope.fr/

cocofromdijon - I can read some French. Thank you for the information :)

Yu, I can verify. Sitting here right now looking at it.....It's blue.

We just went up to the second level tonight. Very cool walking around on it wen it's all lit up.

Ok, now it's blue and its flickering at this very momment!

Yikes, just looked at all my spelling errors. I guess that's what you get when you are typing and looking out the window at the same time!

lol, latenighter, I still understood :)
I have it on my screen now, waiting, right now it is normally lit, with no blue showing..

Is it going to twinkle blue at the top of the hour??

Ooooh! How pretty! :)

latenighter, I wish I were there with you!!!

Eiffel Tower goes blue for Europe Day

PARIS, May 9, 2006 (AFP) - The Eiffel Tower was lit up blue Tuesday as France celebrated the foundation of what is now the European Union — and stressed the importance of the bloc to its citizens.

Junior Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said France was this year going all out to mark Europe Day so as to "show that Europe exists and plays an important role in the lives of the French".

As well as the famous tower, metro tickets were also blue for the day, and a Eurostar train left for London specially coated in the colour of the EU flag.

Movies, concerts and other events also took place around the country.

Europe Day falls on May 9 each year, in commemoration of the date in 1950 on which the then French foreign minister, Robert Schuman, called on France, Germany and other European countries to pool coal and steel production as the first step towards "a European federation".

Official efforts to mark the day were more visible this year than in the past, amid signs of disenchantment in France and elsewhere with the expansion of the European Union.



France still loves Europe





Nearly a year ago, the adoption of an EU constitution was scuttled when French voters cast a majority of 'non' ballots in a referendum.