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How does the EU protect endangered architectural heritage?

Audio 7:30 p.m.

A street in southern Naples (File photo).

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By: Léa-Lisa Westerhoff Follow

2 mins

The dangers weighing on European heritage are numerous today: threats of demolition, dilapidation, pollution, climate change, modern constructions in historic centres.

In Italy, the latest census by the National Institute of Statistics estimates that 6% of the millions of buildings in La Botte are dilapidated or abandoned, particularly in rural areas, deserted by Italian youth who cannot find work in these small towns. .

But, for a year, in the mountains of the Roman region, in Lazio, young people have been trying to change the situation and have chosen to rehabilitate an old inn to bring this territory and its heritage back to life...Our correspondent Blandine Hugonnet delivered on site.

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When abandoned buildings become a source of exploration

Urbex, a contraction of the words urban exploration, has become a practice, almost a discipline, which is gaining momentum in European cities to the point that the historian Nicolas Offenstadt has decided to devote a book to it: " 

", by Albin Michel.

Typology of these explorers of a new genre, political motivations, the author gives us a complete account of this underground world.

And to give an idea of ​​the practice, our journalist

 accompanied the historian on an exploration session in La Courneuve, north of Paris.

Critical press freedom in Greece

In Greece, investigating has become increasingly risky, to the point that Athens is now dead last in the European Union, in the ranking established by Reporters Without Borders.

Behind countries like Bulgaria or Hungary known for their media under close surveillance of political power.

In question, laws passed by the party of the conservative right, New Democracy.

Public radio and television stations have come under the direct control of the Prime Minister and, since November 2021, the dissemination of false information is punishable by 5 years in prison.

The explanations of

, correspondent of Liberation in Athens.

The music chronicle of Vincent Theval

A Light For Attracting Attention

is the title of the first album by British group The Smile, which will be released in late spring 2022.

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