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Coffee beans.

(Illustration) © CC0 Pixabay/Daniel Ramirez

By: Frederique Lebel

2 mins

Will the heat wave in Europe redraw the map of our agricultural crops?

In Sicily, in the south of Italy, it is no longer rare for the thermometer to reach 40 degrees in June, an increasingly tropical climate which gave the idea to an entrepreneur to develop the first coffee 100% Italian, from grain to roasting.

This takes place in the province of Palermo, at the Morettino roaster.

The coffee culture launched thirty years ago had so far never borne fruit until this year, paving the way for the first coffee in the northern hemisphere.

This is the report by Cécile Debarge.

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The end of license fees for the BBC

In France, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has confirmed her intention to abolish the tax which finances public broadcasting.

The famous royalty.

An idea that the British Conservatives have already launched.

There should be no more royalties in the United Kingdom, in 2027, when the royal charter which governs the BBC is renewed. 

our correspondent in London explains to us that criticizing the BBC is the favorite sport of British politicians whether they are on the right or on the left.  

Picasso and women

Painting, and the genius of Picasso at the time of Metoo and gender studies.

While several biographies have hit the headlines and revealed the dark side of the painter, stalker and abuser of his women.

The Picasso Museum in Barcelona wanted to take up the debate by organizing a symposium from a gender perspective.

Their goal: to avoid caricature, and the systematic victimization of the artist's wives, while informing about the facts.

Report in Barcelona by

Another Sissi

And it is an emblematic female figure that Austrians are called upon to rediscover.

The film

, which has just been released in theaters, sheds a very different light on the myth of Empress Sissi, Elisabeth of Austria and Hungary.

A biopic very different from that which, in the 50s, had been worn by actress Romy Schneider.

In Vienna, 

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