Covid-19 and new faces of politics in Europe
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Panel calling for mask wear in Dresden, December 12, 2020. REUTERS - HANNIBAL HANSCHKE
By: Juliette Rengeval Follow
22 min
The Covid-19 pandemic is disrupting the political landscape in Europe.
Publicity
Critics are mounting in
Germany
against the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, considered too slow.
Yet the country was a good student in the management of the first epidemic wave, but today, it has all the trouble in the world to contain the virus.
Germany has seen the emergence of a particularly powerful anti-mask movement, mixing vaccine-resistant, followers of conspiracy theories and far-right activists, but also supporters of a return to nature.
A gathering that may seem heterogeneous at first.
But many of these activists are found in a series of books called
Anastasia
, which has sold millions of copies around the world, and which is particularly successful in Germany.
From Berlin, the story of
Julien Méchaussie
.
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In
Romania
, the year 2021 started with neo-fascists in Parliament.
The
AUR
Party
created a surprise in December during the legislative elections.
Formed just over a year ago, he signs the return of the far right to the country.
Benjamin Ribout
.
The Czech political forces are starting to put themselves in order before the general elections scheduled for next October.
Mikulas Minar
is the leader of the collective which has organized the biggest anti-government demonstrations in Prague since the fall of communism: this young Czech has decided to take the plunge to found a political movement with the aim of participating in the next election.
A bet far from being won in advance, according to our correspondent in
Prague,
Alexis Rosenzweig
.
Portrait of a Belarusian opposition that is reinventing itself
In
Belarus
, Alexander Lukashenko continues to face a rebellion from a significant part of the population.
Since the ballot of August 9, marred by irregularities, the population has demonstrated to obtain the departure of the president, in power for 26 years.
The protest movement is repressed, the leaders of the opposition are imprisoned or forced into exile.
At least four people have died.
Belarusian actors who took refuge in Vilnius staged with a Lithuanian team,
a theater performance
, close to the documentary, on the demonstrations in Belarus and the opposition to Lukashenko.
A show broadcast at Christmas time on Lithuanian television.
It is a report by
Marielle Vitureau
.
Despite the police violence, the cold and the Covid-19, in 4 months of protests, Belarusian society has matured.
Anastasia Becchio.
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