It is a scandal that affects many European countries, 25,000 babies were adopted in a totally illegal way in Chile, between 1973 and 1990. The adoptive parents, who did not know that it was a traffic, are mostly foreign couples from the United States or Europe, France, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, England, Norway and Sweden are also affected. Sweden recently organized a congress to help these Chilean children – 2,200 in Sweden – to find their origins, sometimes half a century after being separated from their biological mother. The report by Frédéric Faux.
In Ireland, there is something new about the possibility of knowing your origins when you have been adopted. While the right of mothers to anonymity has always taken precedence over the right of adoptees to know their story, a law that has just been passed should change the situation. From now on, children adopted in Ireland will be able to find out who their biological parents are if they wish. Laura Taouchanovfrom Dublin.
And as the thermometer climbs again all over Europe, the city of Seville, in the south ofSpain, will become the first city in the world to name and classify heat waves. The objective being to better inform and protect city dwellers in the face of these periods of extreme temperatures, Diane Cambon.
On November 1, 1755, the earth shook Lisbon. These tremors of rare intensity caused a tsunami and a giant fire which caused between 30 and 60 thousand victims at the time. Recently, a museum of a particular kind opened to inform and return to this particularly traumatic episode for the people of Lisbon. Marie-Line Darcy.
It is a species protected by the European Union, it stores CO2, produces oxygen and hosts up to 350 animal species per hectare of underwater meadow: Posidonia, these large underwater grasses typical of the Mediterranean and fundamental for biodiversity. They too are threatened by man and pleasure boats. In Italy, Sardinia has therefore decided to replant them artificially. The explanations of Cecile Debarge.
Our column In a nutshell this week: Die Berliner Schnauze. Leo Brauer-Potier.