Faced with the Russian threat, Ukraine has continued to increase the use of its national language. Because it is one of the paradoxes of this former Soviet republic: for more than thirty years, Ukrainian has been the only official language of the country but even today, Russian dominates in most daily exchanges.
All of that is changing! The service sector will now welcome customers in Ukrainian. And since January the main titles of the press have decided to abandon Russian on their paper format, one more step towards its national affirmation vis-à-vis its large Russian neighbour. In Kyiv, Stephane Siohan.
In Ireland, the country’s official language is struggling to stay alive. 4 out of 10 citizens have some knowledge of Gaelic, but few speak it daily. Europe may well give Irish a boost, as since January Gaelic has become one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. And then there is the resistance and relentlessness of several parents who enroll their children in schools in Gaelic. So much so that the demand greatly exceeds the supply, which poses a new problem in order to be able to go to the Gaelic baccalaureate. In Dublin the report of Laura Taouchanov.
In France, just like Breton, Basque or Corsican, the Picardy language has just been added to the list of regional languages. Picard will therefore be able to be taught at school by the start of the next school year. Why did it take until 2022 for this language, spoken in the north of the country and whose first traces date back to the 11th century, to finally be accepted by national education? The report of Lise Verbeke.
The family is the blood ties that we share for a lifetime, but when these ties invite themselves into politics… it immediately becomes much more crisp. We saw it in France, with the family which for decades had the monopoly of the extreme right, the Le Pens finally tore themselves apart over the candidacy to be supported in the presidential election: and this is only a family among others in politics in Europe, Franceline Beretti.
Elizabeth 2, the Queen of England celebrated her seventieth anniversary on Sunday – And on the occasion of this “platinum jubilee” we couldn’t resist taking a look in British kitchens. Because all English people over the age of 8 had until Friday to concoct a cake recipe for their favorite queen. What will be the dessert fit for a queen and enjoyed by all England during the feast of the throne in June? Deliberations begin today and Mary Billon went to see.