Freedom of expression and living together: the Charlie spirit in Europe (Replay)
The trial of the "Charlie Hebdo" and Hyper Kosher attack, at the special Assize Court in Paris, September 2, 2020. (Illustrative image).
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Freedom of speech, right to blasphemy, on the one hand.
Respect for each other's beliefs, live together: Accents d'Europe questions these notions which sometimes seem irreconcilable.
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The jihadist attacks, while the trial of the January 2015 attacks was being held in Paris, once again inflamed France.
And one wonders where the spirit Charlie is, five years after the murderous attack on the editorial staff of the satirical journal.
Emmanuel Macron believes that the Anglo-Saxon media do not understand French secularism when they judge that the caricatures of Mohammed are the cause of violence.
It must be said that on the affair of the cartoons, France often seems very isolated.
In
Russia
, for example, no right to blasphemy.
It is even a crime.
A report by
Jean Cassey
in Moscow.
In
Ireland
, Islamist terrorism has never struck, but the population remembers the numerous attacks perpetrated during the unrest in the 1970s and 1990s, and previously during the civil war, a century ago.
Perpetrated by the Republicans as by the Unionists.
But then today, how to draw a line between glorification of combatants and apology for terrorism?
A correspondence from
Emeline Vin.
A first mosque in Athens
Until now, Athens was the only capital of the European Union that did not have an official place of worship for Muslims.
The opening, at the beginning of November 2020, of a first mosque in the Greek capital has just changed the situation for an estimated community in Athens of around 500,000 people.
We find in Athens our correspondent,
Joël Bronner.
European of the week
: Recep Tayyip Erdogan
In the shadow of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, there is Russian President Vladimir Putin.
And the Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Recep Tayyip Erdogan is
Béatrice Leveillé's
European of the week
.
Reuse wastewater to fight drought
After a 4th consecutive summer of drought in Europe, climate change is making itself felt, and today a third of the European Union is affected by the lack of water.
A new European directive was voted in May 2020. It sets a European legal framework for the reuse of wastewater to irrigate fields: urban water or treated industrial water.
Example in
Belgium
with
Myriam Baele
from RTBF.
(Replay from November 17)
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