What's next for China's foreign policy in 2022?
Every forecast is tricky but we are trying anyway. Marc Julienne is Head of China Research within the Centre for Asian Studies of the French Institute of International relations (IFRI) and we discusse...
30 Dec 202121min
What is the role of NATO battalions on the Eastern Flank? To die heroically?
On December 20 Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová traveled to military base Ādaži in Latvia. I also had a chance to visit NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) multinational battalion that consists of a ...
22 Dec 202121min
Black woman, star, spy, activist: What do we know about Josephine Baker?
"You are entering this Panthéon because although you were born American there is no one more French than you". This is what President Emmanuel Macron said when he paid a tribute to Josephine Baker as ...
14 Dec 202131min
At the end Angela Merkel just wanted a nap. Are we living in Olaf Scholz’s world now?
After 16 years it's clear that the German Chancellor can be also... a man. Christian Democrat Angela Merkel is gone and Germany and the world have some questions. What to expect from the traffic light...
11 Dec 202128min
After COP26: Is humanity still on a self-destructive path?
The aim of the UK COP26 Presidency was to keep alive the hope of limiting the rise in global temperature to 1.5C, and the Glasgow Climate Pact does just that. Combined with increased ambition and acti...
1 Dec 202124min
27 dead: Will a (preventable) tragedy in the Channel change anything?
On November 24th, at least 27 people, including women and children, died trying to cross the English Channel in a small boat. A Kurdish woman from northern Iraq Maryam Nuri Mohamed Amin has become the...
27 Nov 202118min
Will elections in Libya discredit the concept of democracy?
Presidential and legislative elections in Libya should take place on December 24th. While we read headlines about candidates such as Saif Gaddafi, the problems run deeper. At least according to Jalel ...
21 Nov 202128min
Belarus border crisis: How to help people in need and how to stop Lukashenko
On one hand this is a hybrid attack against the European Union from Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko with Russia's shadow looming over the situation. On the other hand, this is also a humanitaria...
13 Nov 202129min
