This is a CBS Island the World. I'm John Batchelor. To the south of France,

to Simon Constable running for distinguished publications to Barons, the Wall Street Journal, and reporting on Paradise, the perfect climate this time of year, the transition from summer, the summer's heat and rains into the autumn.

I'm in a very good day to you.

I report here in the Southern New England.

It is 50s in the morning and 70s in the And what we are going to experience over these next days is a very green forest turning

colors for the autumn.

How goes it in the south of France?

Good day to you.

Good day to you, John. It's delightful at the moment it's cooled down a little bit but

it's not cool down so much that you're freezing so rather like you it's kind of chilly

in the morning when you wake up, high 50s, and in the evening

and the height of the day, we're talking about high 70s, possibly 80 degrees Fahrenheit, which is quite a nice temperature to walk around in

Shorten and enjoy the weather without getting risled by extra high temperatures.

So that's absolutely lovely.

We go from the beauty of the South of France to questions about the economy of the

European Union depending upon its resources. Commodities. So the energy

complex, the metals and the bourgeois. Let's start with the energy. Is there a positive

news? Yes, there there a positive news?

Yes, there is very positive news here. We have got Brent Crude Oil, which is the European

benchmark at well below $80 a barrel, and I haven't seen that in quite a long time. It's now $77.50

basically per barrel which is phenomenal and that translates into much lower car fuel prices.

So for diesel which is what most people use in this region it's 164.

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