Digital poisoning alert

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"The pandemic has made us all dive, head first, into the screens."

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By: Frédérique Lebel

22 min

The pandemic has made us all dive, head first ... into the screens ... Telework, studies, and even social relations during confinement, everything has been digitally scrutinized to such an extent that we are now talking about a necessary digital detoxification… "6.45 hours of screen per day for 13-18 year olds", warns a French researcher.

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Italy conducts survey among its students

Students, and especially adolescents, are the first affected.

Especially since for once, it is the educational institution that encouraged them to use their smartphone and tablet.

In Italy, the mayor of Rome wanted to know more, and conducted a survey in several schools in the capital to measure the impact of this dependence ...

This is the report by Olivier Bonnel.

The right to disconnect in the world of work

Several countries, including France, have already asserted this right not to consult their emails during their holidays, for example.

However, the European Parliament would like all EU countries to adopt similar legislation that protects employees.

It has therefore published a legislative report to encourage the European Commission to legislate in this direction.

Especially since with teleworking, there is an emergency.

In Brussels, Joana Hostein.

Greek students on the street

They are not happy with the Greek students.

And not just because their studies, their social life, their very life is completely disrupted.

The conservative government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis has just pulled out of its hat a reform that is making a lot of waves: the creation of a thousand police stations in universities.

A measure that recalls dark periods in the country's history, and which pushed students into the streets.

In Athens, Joël Bronner.

Chronicle travel in music

And a little sun and a lot of sweetness to end this program with music.

Vincent Théval has released an album by the Portuguese group Madredeus which takes us to the banks of the Tagus in Lisbon ...

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