Gas crisis in Europe: until when?
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By: Bruno Faure Follow
103 mins
Under the threat of an energy crisis, Europe shivers before the onset of winter.
Gas and electricity, prices are exploding for businesses and individuals.
The economic recovery all over the world, growth in China, have created a huge demand for natural gas in particular.
Inventories are at their lowest.
And that poses a lot of questions.
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What is this the sign of?
What implications in the world, when we know the geopolitical aspects of this issue?
What consequences for other sources of energy?
How far will this energy crisis hitting Europe go?
With:
Jacques Percebois,
professor emeritus at the University of Montpellier, director of CREDEN (Center for Research in Economics and Energy Law), author “
Energy told through some tragic destinies”
(Open Campus Publishing).
To listen :
Our dossier on gas prices in Europe:
EUROPEAN GAS PRICE FILE
OUR REPORTS:
► In the United Kingdom, companies are sometimes strangled by this rise in energy prices.
Example in a delicatessen in London, with RFI correspondent Claire Digiacomi.
LONDON GAS PRICE REPORT
► Russia, the leading European gas supplier, is accused of artificially inflating prices.
Explanations in Moscow by Jean-Didier Revoin.
RUSSIA PRICES OF GAS
OUR INTERVIEWS:
► The Africa CEO Forum, one of the biggest meetings for African decision-makers, was canceled in 2020 in Abidjan, because of the Covid.
It is held digitally from September 28 to 30, organized by the Jeune Afrique group.
We met its managing director, Amir Ben Yahmed.
Development of events and digitization: he also details the strategy of his company.
INTERVIEW WITH AMIR BEN YAHMED
► Lamia Merzouki, Deputy Director General of Casablanca Finance City (the leading financial center in Africa) is also the Vice-President of WFC (Women Working for Change), a network of women leaders on the continent.
She will participate in the Africa CEO Forum, of which she is an ambassador.
It takes stock of the challenges of Africa's economic recovery.
Among its other priorities: the development of environmentally friendly investments.
INTERVIEW WITH LAMIA MERZOUKI
OUR FILE :
► Angela Merkel is leaving power.
In 16 years at the head of Germany, she spared no efforts to make Africa one of the centerpieces of her foreign policy.
It also launched an economic plan to develop cooperation with certain countries of the continent.
For what assessment?
Alexandre Robinet-Borgomano is the head of the Germany program at the Institut Montaigne.
ALEXANDRE ROBINET BORGOMANO (INSTITUT MONTAIGNE)
► Togo has joined the G20 Compact with Africa initiative, the objective of which is to promote private investment on the continent.
But on the German side, a lot of work remains to be done.
Mathias Veltin is the German Ambassador in Lomé.
MATHIAS VELTIN (GERMAN AMBASSADOR IN TOGO)
AN INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEUR:
► “60 seconds to convince”.
The names of the winners of the international student entrepreneurship competition organized by AUF (Agence universitaire de la francophonie) was revealed in Bucharest (Romania).
Candidates from a large number of French-speaking countries had to explain their innovative (and realistic) project in a short video.
The winner is a Burundian student, Jean Crespin Cubahiro.
He studies at the American University of Beirut.
He wants to launch an energy production system from food waste and cow dung.
He wants to benefit the inhabitants of his country.
INTERVIEW WITH JEAN-CRESPIN CUBAHIRO
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