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Ukraine officially a candidate for the European Union

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in kyiv on Saturday June 11, 2022. AFP - SERGEI SUPINSKY

By: Fanny Bleichner

1 min

Will Ukraine one day be a member of the European Union?

In any case, like Moldova, it has just acquired the status of candidate state.

A very symbolic decision by Parliament which comes almost four months after the invasion launched by the Russian army in Ukraine.

And this raises a lot of hope in kyiv.

Stephane Siohan.

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A forgotten story that resurfaces

In northern

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, Vignacourt was an important rear base during the First World War for Allied soldiers.

Something quite rare, for the time, a couple from the town, Louis and Antoinette Thuillier had a plate camera.

Civilians and soldiers marched in front of their objective.

Then these plates were forgotten before being rediscovered about ten years ago.

An artistic exhibition is currently being organised, in the garden of the farm-museum.

Lise Verbecke.

The Irish exception

What if the tensions between the European Union and the

United Kingdom

around

Ireland

did not date from Brexit, but from an almost thousand-year-old misunderstanding?

It is in any case, the thesis of the Irish writer and historian, Fergal Tobin.

His latest book is called “

The Irish Difference

” and is published by Atlantic books.

This is

Marie Billon's book review.

Music chronicle

with

Vincent Theval

: the Swedish band Hater.

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