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.
An unprecedented post-Covid economic crisis!
China's denial of mass unemployment
For this country accustomed to full employment, the economic crisis is likely to be devastating. Growth is at its lowest point in 40 years, China faces unacknowledged mass unemployment. The first victims are migrant workers from the countryside: they can no longer find work and are not entitled to any social assistance. Young people are also hard hit by unemployment, a quarter of young graduates will probably not find a job. Frightened by these prospects, the Communist Party censors everything about this subject and fears the political consequences of this crisis.
Deciphering of Sébastien Le Belzic , correspondent in China
Visible poverty in Japan
If Japan has resisted the coronavirus rather well, the epidemic has tipped a large part of the population into poverty, which is now visible. Millions of precarious workers have lost their jobs, students who previously survived on odd jobs no longer have enough to eat and many single-parent families have to live on food aid. In this society, where assistantship is frowned upon, these situations of distress have moved the Japanese, some are mobilizing to help the most disadvantaged.
Report and decryption by Bernard Delattre , correspondent in China
A book in the world
Nicolas Carreau returns this week to a great bookstore success. Released about a year and a half ago, The real life of the Belgian author, Adeline Dieudonné was a hit with 250,000 copies sold worldwide! And for those who haven't read it yet, the novel has just come out. For her fans, good news: Adeline Dieudonné is currently working on her second novel.
The real life of Adeline Dieudonné at Iconoclast editions
South Africa between two evils
South Africa is the country with the highest number of coronavirus infections on the continent, despite strong measures and a screening campaign. Strict confinement will be relaxed from June 1 ... but the country is torn between the risk of spreading the virus and a social fracture that is widening painfully.
Decoding of Patricia Huon , correspondent in South Africa
Norway: few viruses and more tourism
Norway was little affected by Covid-19, but has nevertheless taken partial containment measures. The patients are concentrated in the south, the north of the country has known only one case of contamination. The north therefore protects itself from the south by a sort of invisible internal border.
Jérôme Drnovsek, a longtime listener of Carnets du Monde, is a tourist guide with technical unemployment, he lives this new moment with serenity. A serenity made possible by generous state aid. It is with humor that he envisages his future long summer days in the midnight sun, without tourists. He hopes that this epidemic will stop the influx of cruise ships into these magnificent fjords.
Testimony of Jérôme Drnovsek , listener of the Carnets du Monde and tourist guide in the far north of Norway, on the island of Mageroya
Travel to Autistan
Josef Schovanec , philosopher-traveler and autistic asperger shares with us his look on the world, a little different ...
The confinements will sometimes have been the occasion for large spring households in the houses. Josef Schovanec examines the contents of our storage rooms and cellars. Nothing more different than the accumulations of a Nubian in Southern Egypt than that of a Russian in his Siberian house!