Europe in dispersed order against China
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Journalists watch Xi Jinping's address at the end of the Second New Silk Roads Forum on April 27, 2019. (Illustrative image) GREG BAKER / AFP
By: Frédérique Lebel
24 mins
"
The end of European naivety
", announced the President of the Commission, for the benefit of China.
Since then, there has been a first step towards an investment agreement between Brussels and Beijing, but also the initiatives of several European countries to block the massive Chinese investment plan in the infrastructure of the 27 called "The new roads of the silk ”.
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In Sweden, it was the iconic car manufacturer Volvo that finally gave up on a merger project with the Chinese brand Geely
.
Economic questions, identity question too,
Anne-Françoise Hivert.
And in Italy, also the new Chairman of the Board Mario Draghi has decided to say no to several takeovers by Beijing of so-called strategic companies. A small step in a new direction.
We could call it "soft power", in any case it is a remarkable entry into the European continent.
Shanghai Fudan University could set up a branch in Budapest
. In Hungary, the nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban is favorable, he is even ready to finance this establishment himself. This is obviously a new spike for EU foreign policy. The decision has sparked much debate in the country, including frank opposition from all those who fear too good a gateway to Chinese spies!
In Budapest, Florence Labruyère
first went to meet the main stakeholders, the future students.
In the Balkans, the Chinese influence is not only counted in the number of doses of sinopharm vaccines. Beijing has invested heavily in the infrastructure of certain countries such
as Montenegro
. Tiny confetti on the Adriatic Sea, wedged between Bosnia, Serbia and Albania.
The pharaonic project of a highway that would link Serbia to the sea, could plunge the country into bankruptcy.
The debt and the ecological consequences of the project are too heavy. The explanations of
Laurent Geslin.
And if we talk about respect for the environment, it's
hard to beat Swedish canteens
!
In Malmö, in the south of Sweden, we are close to perfection… Organic product, that goes without saying in all the public service, schools, administrations, or even retirement homes.
But it goes much further, the idea is to bring climate intelligence to the canteen, to reduce the impact on the planet.
Report in Malmö by
Juliette Gheerbrant.
A report produced with the support of the IMCAP program of the European Union
.
The content of these reports reflects the position of their authors only and is their sole responsibility. The European Commission assumes no responsibility for the use that may be made of the information they contain.
And for our
column In a nutshell,
we are talking about a phrase that causes a lot of debate and anger:
Conversion therapies
.
In the UK, Queen Elizabeth has announced that they will be banned.
In London,
Marie Billon.
Program originally aired on June 23, 2021.
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