Will government ambitions, and in particular ecological ones, be compatible with budgetary rigour?

In this first part, we go to Trier, to the Karl Marx Museum, to meet the MEP Katarina Barley of the Social Democrats (SPD), then to Frankfurt-am-Main, the financial capital, seat of the ECB , with Michael Gahler, EPP MEP (CDU).

Luke Brown, through his report, takes us south of Düsseldorf, to the village of Lützerath, where environmental activists are resisting.

They oppose the extension of the largest open-pit mine in Europe, from which is extracted lignite, the brown coal which supplies the power stations of the industrial basin of the Ruhr.

A program presented by Caroline de Camaret, produced by Johan Bodin, with images by Stéphane Bodenne and the participation of Luke Brown.

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