While it is tempting to view the war in Ukraine as a metaphor for some larger struggle between a tolerant West and an intolerant East, the reality is inevitably far more complex.
Abdelmadjid Tebboune after winning the Algerian presidential election in 2019.
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Stéphane Saurel, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
National procedures for approving the financing of the European recovery plan are delaying its implementation. But the horizon seems to be clearing.
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen presents the “Green New Deal” plan to fight climate change before the European Parliament in Brussels on December 11, 2019.
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To achieve sustainable growth under the constraint that consumption is independent from the use of natural resources, we must move along the path of qualitative growth.
President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who died on Wednesday 2 December following the Covid-19.
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