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Aerial view of Belgrade, capital of Serbia.

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By: Léa-Lisa Westerhoff Follow

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Can new technologies curb the exodus of young graduates affecting the Balkan countries?

This is the bet that Serbia is making.

Over the past two years, the country has pushed innovation in virtual reality, e-health and even industrial automation into high gear, among other things, thanks to the creation of research laboratories within its university in Belgrade.

The authorities are counting heavily on the digitization of the economy to counter unemployment and keep young people in the country.

The report in Belgrade by Louis Seiller.

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Femtech is new technologies at the service of women's health.

Several countries have made it their specialty.

The United States, Israel and, in Europe, Switzerland.

The start-up Rea Diagnostics, for example, launched a connected sanitary napkin.

A towel that should be used to better detect the risk of premature delivery.

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There is another European country that has bet a lot on the digitization of its state: Estonia.

In this small, sparsely populated northern European country, bordering both Finland and Russia, most administrative services are available online.

Enrolling your child in school, obtaining a prescription or declaring your taxes, all of this is done via the computer.

In recent years, this experience and expertise in this area has attracted many African countries to develop the same kind of systems.

Estonia has thus entered into several cooperation agreements, particularly with Benin.

Our correspondent

went to a major conference on e-government in Tallin, the capital.

Global warming and sea level rise

Greek mythology tells that the gods Apollo and Artemis were born on a tiny island called Delos.

This island does exist, it is even one of the most touristic archaeological sites in Greece, but also one of the most threatened.

Because this piece of land located in the Cyclades archipelago is today at the same level as the sea, and the rising waters due to climate change are slowly swallowing up this jewel of Greek antiquity.

returns to the situation of this island of Delos in relation to the rising waters.

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on the functioning of the institutions of the European Union.

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