Tag: Europe
concern about the explosion of sick leaves
In England, the number of staff on sick leave has doubled in a month in hospital. A worrying figure given the increase in people hospitalized. The pressure is increasing on…
20 years later, we still find Deutsche Marks
It was 20 years ago, the first euro banknotes came to fill our machines, before becoming the daily newspaper of 340 million Europeans in 19 countries. The old national currencies…
A French presidency of the Council of the EU that promises to be agitated
Since this Saturday, January 1, France has assumed the presidency of the Council of the European Union for the next six months. Emmanuel Macron at a press conference presented his…
Russia: the freedom to inform a “foreign agent”
We talk, with Amaury de Rochegonde, about the hardening of media control and discordant voices in Russia after the dissolution of the NGO Memorial. ” Foreign agent “. It is…
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin share warnings
This is the second telephone conversation in less than a month for Joe Biden and Vladimir Poutin. Thursday evening, December 30, the Russian and American presidents spent nearly an hour…
“When I wrote, I did not see the walls”
In Turkey, writer Ahmet Altan, 72, spent five years behind bars. The government accuses him of having helped launch the attempted coup against him in 2016. Released last April, the…
Faced with price inflation, the Russians are more careful about the cost of their basket
Russia is not immune to rising inflation. The general price level could have increased by 8% in 2021. An increase of 11% for food products. So many Russians pay more…
United Kingdom-France: the foie gras of discord
France and the United Kingdom have a new subject of tension, which was timely for the Christmas meal: foie gras. Or rather, the “faux gras”, its vegan equivalent. Indeed, the…
The fight of disadvantaged neighborhoods
Sensitive, popular, priority… they are sometimes called quite simply “neighborhoods”, peripheral urban areas where inequalities are evident. An example with the Covid and this study by Public Health France: In…
558 refugees allowed to dock after eleven days at sea
The country has seen a sharp increase in the number of exiles and refugees reaching its shores in recent months. According to data from the Italian Ministry of the Interior,…