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The political shock wave of the war in Ukraine
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A group of people, who fled Ukraine, queue after arriving at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Sunday, March 13, 2022. Now in its third week, the war has forced more than 2.5 million people to flee Ukraine.
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By: Frederique Lebel
2 mins
Nearly three weeks after the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops, and its thousands of deaths, it is not only the post-Soviet world that is turned upside down.
In Europe, political lines have shifted like never before under the pressure of the Russian threat and the more than two million refugees fleeing the fighting.
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Ukrainian migrants welcome in Poland
Poland, which has welcomed the majority of them, has completely changed its anti-migrant discourse, conveyed by the PiS, the ultra-conservative populist party in power.
A few months ago, the country was singled out by the UN for the refoulement of migrants at the Belarus border.
He was also prosecuted by the European Court of Justice for failure to respect the rule of law.
So what has really changed in Warsaw, the explanations of our correspondent
Sarah Bakaloglou
.
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The moult of the EU
And the European Union, as a common political body, has also had to reinvent itself.
Finding new quick solutions, which is not his first quality, and in areas such as defense which generally escape him because they are the exclusive domain of States.
We find our correspondent
Jean-Jacques Hery
in Brussels.
Young Europeans, war and peace
The possibility of war, at the very heart of the continent, redefines politics, but also minds.
It was the
European Night of Ideas
on Saturday 12 March.
The opportunity for many young Europeans to discuss war and peace.
Alice Rouja
went to meet them.
Orban's inflections
We were talking about Poland at the start of the program.
The case of Hungary is also instructive.
Unlike Poland, here is a country, or at least a Prime Minister Viktor Orban who until recently appeared very pro Putin, seeing in Russia a model a model of “
non-liberal democracy
”.
Today, Budapest has chosen the European side.
Florence la Bruyere
.
The European eye of Franceline Beretti
: resurrected NATO
And we will end this program with the European eye of Franceline Beretti on the security organization of the North Atlantic Treaty.
NATO, which Kiev has been asking to join since the 2000s. Moscow has been consistent in its refusal to expand the Atlantic Alliance to the East, and this is what partly explains its invasion of country.
Paradoxically, NATO is experiencing a new youth.
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