Hear the world change with Sophie Larmoyer. Around the world, Europe 1 reporters and correspondents explore and tell the daily life of other cultures, their perception of current events and of our country. Long-format reports and fascinating guests. A sound journey to open the mind and discover the unknown.
Doubly confined
In the Gaza Strip, the arrival of the coronavirus is cause for concern. Subject to isolation by an Israeli and Egyptian blockade for more than 13 years, the Palestinian territory is already in great difficulty: even before the epidemic begins, the health system is on the verge of collapse. Gazans feel that confinement takes them from an open prison to a closed prison.
Story by Clothilde Maffrko , correspondent in the Middle East.
In the favelas, impossible confinement
In Brazil, where the epidemic is just beginning, President Bolsonaro continues to deny the dangerousness of the virus, wanting to preserve the economy. States and municipalities have therefore taken matters into their own hands to protect the population. But in the favelas, the density of the population and sometimes the destitution are such that the confinement is illusory. The first concern is often to figure out how to eat each day. The majority of these working poor have no choice but to leave if they want to survive and feed their families.
Story by Marie Naudascher , correspondent in Brazil.
In refugee camps, the risk of a major health crisis
There have never been so many refugees and displaced persons in the world: some 70 million! A population particularly vulnerable to the virus. Whether in the Moria camp in Greece or in the Idlib region in northern Syria, the refugee situation is extremely worrying. Overcrowded and unsanitary camps ... for NGOs on the spot, the virus could spread at high speed, a veritable health bomb.
Bonw's Gwendoline decryption
A book in the world
Since the bookstores are closed, Nicolas Carreau invites us to immerse ourselves in the great classics. This week, it offers us two round the world trips and not just any: the first will be in the company of the famous Phileas Fogg and in 80 days of course! The second is the one that journalist Nellie Bly will make in 72 days after the publication of the novel, in tribute to Jules Verne. A feat, all the more for a woman at that time!
Jules Verne's “Around the World in 80 Days” available in digital version
“Around the World in 72 Days” by Nellie Bly published by Sous-sol, available in digital version
Europe facing the coronavirus
Faced with this totally unprecedented health and economic crisis, solidarity in Europe is not at all obvious between the states of the North and those of the South. Painfully struck by the pandemic, both Italy and Spain are appealing for financial assistance from the European Union. Aid that the countries of the North are reluctant to grant, deeming the states of the South too negligent in their financial management. In Italy, a Europhile country by definition, things go very badly and distrust of Europe is anchored in the population. A lack of solidarity which could, according to Jacques Delors, put Europe in "mortal danger".
Deciphering of Isabelle Ory , correspondent in Belgium, specialist in European issues.
Decryption with Marc Lazar , professor of history and political sociology at Sciences-Po and president of the School of government of the Luiss in Rome. Specialist from Italy.
An optimistic future!
Mathieu Baudin is a historian who walks both in the past and in the future. Its field of action: the next 40 years. Prospectivist by training, he analyzes what is already in germ in our societies and which could allow us to create a better future. The crisis we are going through today and the confinement it imposes on us can give us the opportunity to reflect on the world we want to see happen and to begin each, at their level, to make choices. The desirable future is in our hands!
Mathieu Baudin , historian and prospectivist by training. He heads the “Institute for Desirable Futures”. He publishes, "Say in the future that we are coming" Alisio Edition, available in digital version.
Travel to Autistan
Josef Schovanec , philosopher-traveler and autistic asperger shares with us his look on the world, a little different ...
The rule is simple and known to everyone today: "Stay at home!" But as Josef Schovanec has seen during his travels, the concept of "at home" is quite random depending on the culture. In Iran for example, sleeping with one or the other in the evening is quite common without being linked to insecurity.