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These European countries that suffer from health inequalities

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A patient interacts with a robot that helps medical teams treat patients with Covid-19 at the Circolo Hospital, in Varese, Italy, April 1, 2020. (Illustrative image) © REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo

By: Juliette Rengeval Follow

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More than a month after the election, Northern Ireland is still in a political stalemate.

The unionist DUP refuses to appoint ministers and to cooperate with the winning Sinn Fein.

A sharing of power provided for by the peace agreements, and necessary to make the executive function.

This hostage-taking is of particular concern to the health sector, while Northern Ireland has the worst treatment times in the United Kingdom.

Report in Belfast by Laura Taouchanov. 

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In Italy, the health system is decentralized.

The state deals with the broad guidelines, the regions with their implementation.

The result: glaring inequalities between north and south.

The details of

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The ni-ni, these young people dropping out

In Spain, a significant proportion of young people aged 18 to 24 do not work, nor study.

These are the ni-ni.

They represent a fifth of this youth and with the Covid pandemic, their number has increased by 16% according to Eurostat.

An original initiative, created by educators, offers these young people, especially urbanites, the opportunity to live for about twenty days in a rural environment to find motivation and why not a vocation. 

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The killing of a journalist

, a documentary that celebrates investigative journalism 

The killing of a journalist

 will be broadcast in a fortnight at the Karlovy Vary International Festival in Czechia.

This documentary by Matt Sarnecki looks back on the murder of Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova and denounces corruption at the highest level of the state in Slovakia.

The case had upset Slovak society four and a half years ago.

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In a word:

gate

The “Partygate” will not have finally had the skin of Boris Johnson, even if the British Prime Minister emerges politically weakened from his private parties in Downing Street, in full general confinement.

But if Bojo remains in place, does this episode really deserve the qualification of “Partygate”?

Is it really a “gate”?

wonders about these "gates" which the European press loves.

(Rebroadcast June 15, 2022)

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• North Ireland

• UK

• Health and medicine

• Spain

• Youth

• Journalism

• Corruption

• Boris Johnson

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