When Europe looks to the East

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The mayor of Budapest, Gergely Karacsony, who appears here on a screen installed outside the Parliament on June 5, 2021, is one of the slayers of the Chinese university project in the Hungarian capital.

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By: Frédérique Lebel

2 min

When it turns to the Indo-Pacific or to China, to guarantee freedom of movement and trade in the first place ... But, all European countries are not on the same line vis-à-vis Beijing, as we judge with Hungary, which is courting the Asian giant to the highest point.

Chinese vaccines, construction of a railway line to Serbia by a Chinese group, and this project of a Fudan University in Budapest.

But, the idea is causing a lot of controversy.

This is the report by Florence Labruyère.

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And in contrast to the Hungarian positions, we find Lithuania, which provoked the fury of Beijing by accepting the installation of

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Taiwan, democratic territory, that President Xi Jinging would like to reunite with China .... Explanations by 

And on the issue of climate, Europe and the world cannot do without China, which was absent from the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.

But, in this period of economic recovery and energy shortage,

Energy, but also agriculture at the center of concerns, to limit pollution and global warming.

Among the crops that require the most in fertilizers, pesticides and also water, we must talk about tobacco

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And it is in Spain that we find the largest plantations in Europe.

In the west of the country, in the region of Vera, 8,000 hectares are devoted to it, but farmers are struggling to make an ecological transition.

Report in the north of Extremadura by

Brexit, fishing, migrants, there is no shortage of contentious issues between the United Kingdom and Europe and, more particularly, France.

And in this hostile landscape,

doing well. She is the most popular in Boris Johnson's government.

Her portrait is signed

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• China

• Hungary

• Serbia

• Vaccines

• Climate change

• Energies

• Agriculture and Fishing

• Pollution

• Spain

• UK

• Brexit

• Immigration

• Taiwan

• Lithuania

• COP26

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