The Debate

By FRANCE 24 English

A live debate on the topic of the day, with four guests. From Monday to Thursday at 7:10pm Paris time.

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December 21, 2020 The age of fast fashion: How to kick the planet's shopaholic habit?
If you're looking for that tacky Christmas jumper to provide a dose of light relief from 2020, you've come to the wrong place. Besides the pandemic, we still have a planet to save. The problem is cheap clothes with a short shelf life. It's called fast fashion. Since World War II, what we wear has grown cheaper and cheaper while coming from further and further away. We ask about the scale of the carbon footprint and social cost, and how TikTok and Instagram have further fed that buying frenzy. The world's favourite sport is not football. It is shopping.
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43min
December 17, 2020 Will Modi bend? India's farmers dig in against reform
Has Narendra Modi met his match? For nearly a month, farmers have dug in for a fight over a reform bill that upends the subsidy system at the core of a sector that still employs more than half the country's workforce. Protesters are unmoved by attempts to brand them as dangerous agitators or terrorists.
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43min
December 16, 2020 Charlie Hebdo verdict: Closure for victims of January 2015 attacks?
It was billed as a trial for the history books. Now that the verdict is in for the Charlie Hebdo trial, is France closer to or further from closure? We ask about sentences for accomplices of the radicals who, nearly six years ago, targeted the satirical weekly and a kosher supermarket in Paris. For over three months, while the court heard sometimes gut-wrenching testimony... outside, there were new attacks, triggered by Charlie Hebdo's republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed: the beheading of a middle school teacher, the knife attack against a church in Nice.
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42min
December 15, 2020 Digital reckoning: EU regulators move to tame Big Tech
Has Silicon Valley met its match? The European Commission has unveiled its double-barrelled blueprint for reining in the unchecked power of Big Tech. We ask about draft bills to regulate free speech online and the use of our personal data.
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43min
December 15, 2020 Brexit's never-ending endgame: UK, EU extend talks as both sides try to clinch deal
"Keep calm and carry on" is a phrase adopted on the other side of the English Channel to sum up the British phlegmatic spirit. So perhaps it's no surprise that we are now in yet another extended period of discussion and negotiation about Brexit. The Sunday deadline to sort out a trade deal came and went with no tangible progress, except a commitment to carry on… and keep calm. So can the sticking points be overcome? Can a deal be done?
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41min
December 10, 2020 Merkel's last hurrah? Crucial summit caps German EU presidency
Many had billed this date on the calendar as the crowning moment for Germany's rotating EU presidency and its outgoing chancellor before her final months in office. So how will Angela Merkel – a fixture for so long on the European stage – weather a summit that couldn't be more crucial?
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42min
December 09, 2020 France's fight over sacred values: Macron's republican principals bill takes on radical Islam
It's no longer labelled a law against religious separatism and you will not find in it the words "radical Islam". But as Emmanuel Macron's justice minister openly states, it's abundantly clear that "between the lines", the French government's much anticipated law to reinforce republican principles is precisely about what this nation can no longer endure.
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40min
December 08, 2020 Turning point? First shots in rollout of Covid-19 vaccine
The first shots of a long battle. A 90-year-old pensioner from Enniskillen was the first to get her Covid-19 vaccine jab. We ask if it's truly the beginning of the end, how the rollout will proceed not just in Brexit-bound Britain but across Europe and the world. It's also a chance to measure the significance of the moment: the first-ever inoculation against a coronavirus going to market in record time. Will the public be clamouring to be first in line or will sceptics need convincing?
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43min
December 07, 2020 Unconditional support? Macron reluctant to call out Egypt's Sisi on human rights
The Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is currently on a three-day visit to France, where he's been given a red carpet welcome by Emmanuel Macron, underscoring the close alliance between Cairo and Paris. The Egyptian leader says both nations wish to push their strategic relations further. But not everyone is pleased to see these two men standing side by side. Some rights groups have branded Sisi a "dictator" and pointed to the fact that there are 60,000 prisoners of conscience in Egypt. Is Macron being too lenient on his Egyptian guest with regard to this issue of human rights?
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43min
December 03, 2020 Misunderstood reformer? The France of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing died Wednesday due to complications linked to Covid-19. He was 94. Giscard d’Estaing was the last French leader to fight the Nazis in World War II. His tenure was that of social reform, particularly women's rights, but he couldn't stave off inflation, unemployment, and the Bokassa diamonds scandal. At 55, he was suddenly a one-term former president. Yet Giscard d’Estaing would go on to outlast all of his rivals, devoting himself to the European project, putting reconciliation with Germany at its heart. What's left of that legacy today?
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