How to emancipate oneself from dependence on Russian gas and oil, while moving towards clean energies, promised in the European green pact? A priori, the two objectives are compatible, but the urgency makes this turn very difficult to negotiate…
Could the discoveries of large gas deposits in the Mediterranean Sea be a solution? The East Med Gas Pipeline Project, mentioned in 2020, is for the moment at a standstill… and it is perhaps not the war in Ukraine that will give it meaning again. This is the report in Athens from our correspondent Joel Bronner.
And one might think that the energy situation in Poland is untenable, especially since the Russian giant Gazprom announced the end of its deliveries to Warsaw. The Prime Minister then spoke of a direct attack on Poland in response to the sanctions imposed. In fact, the country has been preparing for years to diversify its suppliers. In Warsaw, Sarah Bakaloglou.
It is called the Iberian exception.
Spain and Portugal have obtained from the 27 European countries a cap on the price of gas used to produce electricity. Only way to prevent a drift in the price of electricity for consumers. In Lisbon, the explanations of Marie-line Darcy.
The traumas of Covid
We learn a little more every day about the long-term effects of Covid-19… The long Covid, but also the psychological impact caused by confinements, exit bans, wearing a mask and all the others health requirements. The little ones were not spared quite the contrary. In Austria, a team of psychologists carried out the survey in the Tyrol and concluded that a quarter of young children suffer from worrying psychological disorders. In Vienna, Céline Béal.
This is your Europe by Alice Rouja
Stressful period also for all European students who are working on their end-of-year exams. In France, high school students attacked their specialty tests yesterday, a major novelty of the baccalaureate reform.
After two exceptional years due to Covid, with many canceled exams, where is the morale of the troops?