When Europe looks beyond its borders
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Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic discuss during the EU-Western Balkans summit at the Brdo Congress Center near Ljubljana on October 6, 2021. AFP - JOE KLAMAR
By: Frédérique Lebel
2 min
As the summit on Europe and the Balkans ends, and the one on Africa and France opens, what place does the EU intend to play in the world?
Anxious to assert itself in the face of an America - China rivalry which wants to take all the space ...
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And we will begin this vast journey at the gates of Europe. In the Western Balkans.
The EU made no promises to them about their future integration. Some have been waiting, however, in the antechamber of Europe for nearly 20 years, and the frustration is there. However, Brussels still intends to support them on the path to growth with economic aid of 30 billion over seven years. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the youth still want to believe in Europe. It must be said that the local political class which stirs up community divisions does not make them dream.
Report in Sarajevo by Louis Seiller.
The diplomatic scandal between France and the United States around the submarines in the Pacific could have pushed this information into the background:
Europe intends to be present in the Indo-Pacific, an area which concentrates 70% of trade. global
. It unveiled its strategy, which also involves numerous free trade contracts.
In Brussels, Pierre Benazet.
Europe and its 27 member states account for 46% of development aid in the world.
In Senegal, for example, the EU delegation has chosen to fund several youth associations united in the “Senegal Youth Consortium”.
Their project, to provide tools for employment and entrepreneurship to 200,000 young people in the suburbs of Dakar.
This is the report from our correspondent
Charlotte Idrac.
This is my europe
There will be many young people on Friday (October 8, 2021) at the Africa France summit held in Montpellier. A summit without an African Head of State, which leaves room for 3,000 civil society actors. Four years after French President Emmanuel Macron's speech to 800 students in Ouagadougou, young people are in the spotlight. This is your column today
Alice Rouja, what does the European youth of Africa know?
And we are voting this weekend in the Czech Republic
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Double or nothing for the current Prime Minister, billionaire Andrej Babis ... He entered politics ten years ago, but his image is today marred by a new scandal: the Pandora Papers reveal everything a very opaque system of financial arrangements to buy Luxury properties in the south of France.
In Prague, Alexis Rosenzweig.
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