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[00:00:00] has actively supported since the
[00:00:06] back in the rest of the night edition, thank you for following us on
[00:00:10] France 24 and France Info. Here are the headlines:
[00:00:13] Ukraine says it lacks anti-aircraft defense to fight
[00:00:17] against Russian ballistic missiles. Mirzelensky blames the Middle Eastern
[00:00:21] wars. You'll hear him, and we'll also review the latest
[00:00:24] attacks. In Germany, a drone with an explosive device
[00:00:27] was discovered in an airport not far from a Ukrainian plane. This
[00:00:31] unprecedented hybrid attack scenario worries the Germans. Another
[00:00:35] drone damaged a plane. We'll come back to this in this
[00:00:38] news report.
[00:00:41] Towards a warming of France-Algeria relations, one of France's most
[00:00:44] wanted criminals has been
[00:00:47] at the right time, you need arrested by Algerian police. He is the founder of the DZ Mafia, but we'll
[00:00:50] see that he's not likely to be extradited for
[00:00:52] that.
[00:01:05] Last night was particularly bloody in Kyiv and
[00:01:08] its surroundings with 17 deaths in strikes
[00:01:12] that destroyed logistical sites and warehouses. Ukrainian anti-aircraft
[00:01:15] defense was able to shoot down the hundred drones
[00:01:19] launched by the Russians, but not the thirty ballistic missiles that
[00:01:24] development because tapestries are hit and caused fires. The Ukrainian army lacks defensive weapons, deplores
[00:01:28] Volodymyr Zelensky. Let's see that. With Alice
[00:01:30] Brogat.
[00:01:33] After more than 20 hours of
[00:01:35] preserving subjects that shelter searching, Ukrainian rescuers pull a lifeless
[00:01:37] body from the rubble. A civilian killed in a Russian strike
[00:01:41] that occurred the day before on this building in Kramatorsk. Faced with the
[00:01:45] increasing number of Russian attacks, the authorities of this city in the Donetsk
[00:01:49] region in eastern Ukraine ordered on Wednesday evening
[00:01:52] the evacuation of about 500 children and their families who were still
[00:01:56] living in the city. In the Kyiv region too, the attacks...
[00:02:00] well imagine that at the European are increasingly numerous and deadly. Along this
[00:02:03] railway, railway workers evacuate one by one the bodies of
[00:02:07] victims, killed after a strike on a busy station
[00:02:11] projects of the future, these are not projects of 30 km from the capital. A local resident testifies to a night
[00:02:14] of horror,
[00:02:18] the noise was deafening, and as the air raid siren was still
[00:02:22] active, I didn't dare to look around
[00:02:24] me.
[00:02:27] Then there were explosions, structures collapsing.
[00:03:09] This situation is mainly linked to the
[00:03:13] great forgotten one of war,
[00:03:14] here, it's painting and or as it is now fair to say, to hostilities and wars in the
[00:03:17] Fressline, it's in the heart of Middle East.
[00:03:20] Last week, Volodymyr Zelensky went again to
[00:03:24] Washington to convince Donald Trump to deliver Patriot missiles to him,
[00:03:27] the only ones capable of intercepting the most
[00:03:31] powerful Russian missiles, but according to the Financial Times, Trump
[00:03:34] refused this request due to the shortage of Patriots in American
[00:03:38] stocks since the beginning of the war in the
[00:03:40] Middle East.
[00:03:43] And we continue this news report with this drone laden with explosives discovered in a
[00:03:47] German airport, that of Leipzig Halle. The device reportedly
[00:03:51] did not explode due to a technical issue. This event is not attributed to
[00:03:55] Russia at this stage, but is nevertheless described as a major security
[00:04:01] France. We Fonty spinning mill, one of the last wool incident by the Minister of Interior. An anti-terrorism investigation has been opened, with details from Maria
[00:04:04] the future. Creuse has Meyer. A demining robot
[00:04:07] inspects the tarmac of Leipzig airport in the middle of the
[00:04:09] night. A drone equipped with explosives has just
[00:04:13] been spotted only a few meters from these Antonov Airlines
[00:04:16] planes, a Ukrainian freight company. Shortly
[00:04:19] after, a DHL
[00:04:23] aircraft hits a flying object in mid-flight. The plane had just
[00:04:26] been diverted following the closure of the airport. It is
[00:04:30] fortunately only slightly damaged. Berlin
[00:04:33] denounces a possible hybrid attack, a threat
[00:04:36] taken extremely
[00:04:38] seriously.
[00:04:41] I fully understand the intuition that these threats are not the work
[00:04:45] of amateurs. On the contrary,
[00:04:48] they require very professional
[00:04:52] preparation
[00:04:55] based on and execution. This represents a new level of
[00:04:58] threat. Why is this incident so
[00:05:01] worrying? Leipzig airport is a key logistical hub
[00:05:05] for NATO. It allows for the transport of equipment and
[00:05:09] civilians to Ukraine, which Berlin
[00:05:12] beginning of the Russian invasion. So, according to the Ukrainian ambassador in
[00:05:15] Germany, the responsibility for this incident undoubtedly
[00:05:19] lies with Moscow. Berlin mentions the possible involvement of
[00:05:23] foreign powers, an anti-terrorism investigation has been opened.
[00:05:26] The developments this time in the Middle East with new
[00:05:29] exchanges of strikes on the southern border of
[00:05:33] Lebanon. The Israeli army announced that it was carrying out operations following
[00:05:37] a violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah. A Taliban media outlet
[00:05:40] reported one dead and 11 wounded. However, there are
[00:05:44] negotiations currently taking place in Rome between Lebanese
[00:05:48] and Israelis in the presence of Americans for the deployment of pilot
[00:05:52] zones. Explanation by Claire Duamel, our correspondent in
[00:05:54] Jerusalem. Israel says it targeted the
[00:05:58] roof of a building that was located in a
[00:06:01] cemetery in the city of Tebnin, a targeted strike
[00:06:04] therefore, say the Israelis, which is in response to a presumed
[00:06:07] violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah, that is in any case what the
[00:06:10] Israelis say, who speak of a blatant violation but do not provide
[00:06:13] further details, and then for the first time in several weeks a little
[00:06:17] earlier in the day Israel had ordered an evacuation
[00:06:21] order for another village in southern Lebanon which is located
[00:06:25] nearby, a village where civilians had been able to
[00:06:28] return as the Israeli army had
[00:06:31] withdrawn, these strikes in southern Lebanon which are therefore part of a context of
[00:06:34] negotiations taking place at this very moment in Rome between the
[00:06:38] Israeli state and the Lebanese state, this
[00:06:41] is the 7th round of negotiations that
[00:06:44] notably provide for the deployment of the Lebanese
[00:06:48] army in pilot zones evacuated by the Israeli
[00:06:51] army, this is the objective of these negotiations, but these negotiations
[00:06:54] are extremely difficult notably because the main belligerent is not
[00:06:58] part of them, Hezbollah who has refused these negotiations since
[00:07:02] the beginning, Naim Kassiam who is the secretary general of the Shiite movement who said
[00:07:05] today, I quote, that these negotiations brought nothing but
[00:07:09] shame, humiliation and successive compromises. In this
[00:07:12] context, we clearly see the limits of these negotiations which, for now,
[00:07:16] have not achieved the objective of disarming
[00:07:19] Hezbollah. In the United States, in the primaries that are to
[00:07:23] determine the candidates for the November midterms, the surprise Abdul
[00:07:26] Al-Sayed, he will finally be the Democratic candidate for Michigan to
[00:07:30] retain the senator's seat. He, a doctor, won against a more
[00:07:34] moderate candidate. He is therefore part of the left wing of the
[00:07:37] party in the so-called progressive movement, which also brought
[00:07:41] Zoran Mamdani to power in New York a few months ago. Jules
[00:07:44] Boateau.
[00:07:47] He wants to embody the Democratic renewal. Abdul El
[00:07:51] Sayed, son of Egyptian immigrants, will represent
[00:07:54] the party in Michigan for a Senate seat after his victory in the
[00:07:58] primary.
[00:08:00] I want to express all the gratitude I feel for being able to participate in this beautiful
[00:08:04] democracy. My family immigrated from a place where there is no
[00:08:08] democracy, you simply cannot run, as the great Muhammad Ali would
[00:08:11] say. We have shaken the
[00:08:13] world,
[00:08:16] shaken the world, but especially the Democratic Party with
[00:08:20] a radical political line. Facing the
[00:08:22] centrist candidate Aillie Stevens, former advisor to
[00:08:26] Barack Obama, Abdul El Sayed campaigned against the influence of
[00:08:30] big donors and pro-Israel organizations in American
[00:08:33] politics. Supported by so-called progressive
[00:08:36] figures like Bernie Sanders or Alexandria
[00:08:39] Ocasio-Cortez, he now wants to prove that a radical
[00:08:43] voice in the Democratic Party can block the MAGA Republicans. Donald
[00:08:47] Trump himself seemed to welcome this result.
[00:08:51] Great news for the Republican Party, the communist
[00:08:53] loser Elsayet, who hates Jews and Israel, won the Democratic
[00:08:57] primary. The insane proposals of the idiot Democrats
[00:09:01] will get even worse. But before facing Donald Trump's
[00:09:05] candidate, Abdul El Sayed will have to unite his own
[00:09:08] party. The end of the primary was marked by personal attacks
[00:09:12] and frontal opposition on the issue of support for
[00:09:15] Israel. After the announcement of his victory, the
[00:09:18] now Democratic candidate immediately called for
[00:09:22] unity.
[00:09:25] FIFA apologizes, it was the uproar of these last few days after the
[00:09:28] disclosure of the commercial entity project. The International Football
[00:09:32] Federation recognizes errors after a crisis meeting of its executive
[00:09:35] board, an apology accompanied by a commitment to ensure that they do not happen
[00:09:39] again, can be read in this statement. The members of the board
[00:09:42] also reaffirm their full support for Gianni
[00:09:45] Infantino.
[00:09:48] And we often talk about this DZ Mafia, a criminal organization
[00:09:51] from the northern districts of Marseille, and we learned that one of the
[00:09:54] founding protagonists was arrested
[00:09:57] in Algeria more than two weeks ago, arrested under an international
[00:10:01] arrest warrant issued by France. He is not in
[00:10:04] detention but under judicial supervision in Algeria. Jules
[00:10:07] Boyto.
[00:10:11] He is considered one of the five or six founders of the criminal
[00:10:14] organization DZ Mafia. Medi
[00:10:17] Laribi, alias Tic, was arrested in
[00:10:21] Algeria at the end of July on the execution of a French arrest warrant.
[00:10:26] Originally from the northern districts of Marseille, Medy Laribi's face first
[00:10:29] appeared on the big screen in several small roles in cinema, including the character
[00:10:33] of Rashitik in Karim Dridi's film Hamza,
[00:10:37] which gave him his nickname. Having become
[00:10:40] a figure in the underworld as an adult, he associated himself in early
[00:10:43] 2023 with other personalities from the Marseille underworld to create the
[00:10:47] DZ Mafia, in reference to Algeria. Together,
[00:10:51] they conquered the city of Marseille and extended
[00:10:55] to other French cities in just a few months.
[00:10:58] Medy Laribi made a name for himself in a particularly bloody
[00:11:01] war, won against another organization, the Yoda
[00:11:05] clan. Following this, he was targeted by an arrest warrant in the
[00:11:09] context of Operation Octopus, which targeted the DZ
[00:11:12] Mafia. Already last March, 26 people
[00:11:15] had been indicted, including three alleged leaders of the organization.
[00:11:19] Medy Laribi, on the run for several years, reportedly
[00:11:22] operated from abroad.
[00:11:25] The priority of French justice in the fight against drugs and organized
[00:11:28] crime has been arrested in Algeria. Thank you to the Algerian
[00:11:32] authorities for this progress and this cooperation in conjunction with the national
[00:11:36] anti-criminality organized prosecutor's office and the
[00:11:38] Marseille prosecutor's office. Medy Laribi was then placed
[00:11:42] under judicial supervision by the Algerian authorities, who never
[00:11:46] extradite their nationals. But this major arrest is part
[00:11:50] of a period of warming diplomatic relations between France
[00:11:54] and Algeria.
[00:11:57] And that's the end of this newscast, thank you for watching, next edition in about twenty minutes.
[00:12:28] Hkin Creuse is an association that mainly rescues abandoned Nordic
[00:12:32] dogs. It opened the association in
[00:12:35] 2019. Clearly, without European funds, Hkin would never have seen the
[00:12:39] light of day. It funded almost 50% of the overall
[00:12:42] project, almost €95,000. So we
[00:12:46] have reached 36 dogs
[00:12:49] now, about 3,000 people a year
[00:12:53] who come to enjoy the activities. or as I explained, we go directly to the
[00:12:57] facilities.
[00:13:01] Hello everyone and thank you for joining us from all over Europe. Today we are in one of
[00:13:04] the French departments most in difficulty and
[00:13:08] which is losing its population, the Creuse, and its 115,000 inhabitants, and this
[00:13:12] Creuse is trying to develop with the support of European
[00:13:15] funds to boost its
[00:13:18] growth but also its
[00:13:20] demographics. We will look at a few examples right away. On our
[00:13:24] way.
[00:13:35] "Is the department of Creuse the
[00:13:38] Europe?
[00:13:41] The whole point here of European funds is precisely
[00:13:45] to manage this decline which has demographic origins but
[00:13:49] also economic ones. So we see that European
[00:13:52] funds there have little..." ripple
[00:13:55] effects, with however some
[00:13:59] companies that manage to mobilize these European funds usefully
[00:14:02] and who also easily declare
[00:14:06] that if these European funds did not exist, they would probably
[00:14:09] have left the territory. On the ground, few project
[00:14:13] leaders, and those who knit their European files correctly make
[00:14:17] their ball of yarn, essential aid.
[00:14:20] I am de la Roussière, I am the director of the
[00:14:24] spinning mills still active in
[00:14:26] restarted in 2006 with 6
[00:14:29] employees, today we are a good thirty and it is true
[00:14:33] that the ERDF Massif Central helped us a lot because we
[00:14:36] have an investment budget of about 4 million and the ERDF
[00:14:40] supports us up to almost 1 million, it is a project that is
[00:14:43] still exceptional, this project of expansion of sums to 4
[00:14:47] million. Yes, it's true, these European funds for
[00:14:50] our rural territories are essential, otherwise the
[00:14:54] project. Yes, to say that the banks follow
[00:14:57] because they know that there is co-financing, Europe,
[00:15:01] region, at war, European funds will help
[00:15:05] transform this very small laundry business into an
[00:15:09] SME, multiplying the seven employees by two in the coming
[00:15:12] years.
[00:15:14] We had an exceptional allocation of ERDF
[00:15:18] with an advance of 30%, which allowed us to reserve our
[00:15:22] equipment. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry cites
[00:15:26] the company as an example, meaning that there is a project at
[00:15:29] 3.7, in Creuse, there aren't that many
[00:15:32] projects of that scale, there are a lot of VSEs, very small
[00:15:36] businesses. 98% of the geographical
[00:15:40] sector had to help it calibrate
[00:15:43] its project to go from a
[00:15:47] pseudo-artisanal structure, so to speak,
[00:15:50] to a real industrial project, which is not the case for many companies
[00:15:54] that are hampered by, in particular,
[00:15:57] complex files. For them, Europe, the term they will use
[00:16:00] is bureaucracy. Barely populated with 20 inhabitants per square
[00:16:04] kilometer, compared to 125 in France, this department struggles
[00:16:08] to be heard at the regional level, and despite cohesion efforts in
[00:16:11] France, the gap between the richest and poorest territories
[00:16:15] is
[00:16:15] widening.
[00:16:23] So we find ourselves at the confluence of the Creuse with another
[00:16:26] river, the Sédelle, in front of the ruins of
[00:16:29] Croissant, which inspired the romantics, the Austrian George Sand,
[00:16:33] and her lover Frédéric Chopin for the music, and we
[00:16:37] are with Pierre Vessex, hello, hello, with many
[00:16:41] people who come today to visit this very beautiful fortress, it is the most
[00:16:45] visited place anyway with its 25 to 27
[00:16:48] visitors, but it is also a place that is the heart of the tourist
[00:16:52] destination Valet despins, this emblematic site is an emblem for
[00:16:56] the department of Creuse as for the department of Linde, and this with
[00:17:00] some help from the European Union, it
[00:17:02] needs crystallization work, we are on a historic
[00:17:05] monument, these are envelopes that are always a bit substantial given the
[00:17:09] position of the place which often requires work that we
[00:17:12] will be everything brought by helicopter, these are projects that
[00:17:16] are at least between 20 and 30% actually financed by
[00:17:19] the European Union, so isn't Creuse falling into the famous
[00:17:23] development trap denounced by Brussels, which consists when projects
[00:17:26] are finished, not developing? It is very sparsely
[00:17:30] populated and then with an income of
[00:17:33] €24,000 per inhabitant per
[00:17:37] year, which is well below the national average of
[00:17:39] €41,000. It is a territory that certainly has some large
[00:17:43] companies, but in fact it wanted to transform and
[00:17:46] capitalize on this history of painters, this history
[00:17:50] also which is really very spectacular when we look at what is
[00:17:53] behind us, and so it was to make this cultural and
[00:17:57] heritage notion a key issue for economic development but also an
[00:18:00] issue that will allow them in the long term, by revitalizing the image
[00:18:04] of the department, to reattract populations to the territory. We need to find a delicate
[00:18:08] balance that allows residents to live
[00:18:11] year-round and have sufficiently attractive sources
[00:18:15] of income thanks to tourism, and well, we are going to see another example of this
[00:18:18] indeed very cultural tourism too.
[00:18:36] Yeah, I took my brush because... it's a painting workshop today with you
[00:18:39] Pierre, and we're also with Laurence Rouet who is the
[00:18:43] vice-president of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region where Creuse is located.
[00:18:46] What exactly are we doing here? Tell me what we're doing
[00:18:51] exhibition. We're in the village of
[00:18:55] the Creuse valley in a territory called the valley of painters, and this
[00:18:58] territory hosted Claude Monet, so you created the Monet
[00:19:01] Moulinart space, right? With
[00:19:04] the help of Europe. So the overall budget of the project was
[00:19:08] around just under a million euros at the European level, it's
[00:19:12] €273. Oh, well, Laurence, we're going to
[00:19:15] visit with you, because Creuse is a
[00:19:19] very small department in the large Aquitaine region, it's
[00:19:22] barely 12 million in cohesion
[00:19:26] funds over the period 2021-2027, in
[00:19:29] this large Nouvelle-Aquitaine envelope, €875 million,
[00:19:33] it's the smallest
[00:19:36] department in terms of population and one that is losing population, but it's not the
[00:19:39] only one. There's a demographic issue in general in Creuse, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and
[00:19:43] in France. So Creuse still has 19% of its population
[00:19:46] below the poverty line. It's a land of
[00:19:50] livestock, it's a land with a historical
[00:19:53] industrial past that
[00:19:56] had to be supported. We invested, for example,
[00:19:59] in La Souterraine, we try to be reactive, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine
[00:20:03] region, and with the help of European funds as well, when there are
[00:20:07] industrial accidents, difficulty in bringing projects to fruition, these are things
[00:20:11] that concern us a lot, because France in general is a very bad
[00:20:15] student of cohesion policy, which is not achieving its goal
[00:20:18] despite 18 billion over the seven-year period we were talking
[00:20:21] about for this country which is not achieving its goal of rebalancing regions and
[00:20:25] departments. We are very attached to cohesion policy, so perhaps
[00:20:29] we need to further simplify certain
[00:20:32] procedures. The fact that regions and we believe a lot in
[00:20:36] the fact that regions, the more they are directly involved, the
[00:20:40] more control they have, the better they will be positioned to help
[00:20:43] local projects emerge. You are here in a territory that indeed
[00:20:47] has attractiveness issues, questions of
[00:20:50] decline, battles to be fought from
[00:20:54] this point of view to bring projects to fruition, but where there is an
[00:20:57] awareness on which all stakeholders, whether it's the state, whether it's the
[00:21:01] region, whether it's the department, whether it's all the inter-municipalities and municipalities of
[00:21:05] Creuse, we have created a specific plan for Creuse, we are facing
[00:21:09] it, precisely to make the schemes known, to make
[00:21:12] sure, in any case, when there is a local initiative, when there is a project, an idea that can
[00:21:16] emerge, well, that we, public actors and public funders, are present from
[00:21:20] the beginning to be able to break
[00:21:24] down and simplify as much as possible
[00:21:27] in an environment that is indeed not simple, and with European funds, we know
[00:21:31] that the issue is that first you have to be in the right strategy,
[00:21:34] you have to be
[00:21:37] engineering, you need a lot of reporting, and then you also need
[00:21:41] some cash flow because the aid is only paid after
[00:21:45] long periods of administrative
[00:21:48] verification. Thank you, Laurence, for being with us. So, regarding
[00:21:52] the companies that wanted to invest in Creuse, there's a famous
[00:21:55] biocine that wanted to develop, but there was
[00:21:59] a lot of reluctance from the timber industry and environmentalists, as
[00:22:03] Luke Brown reports
[00:22:05] right away.
[00:22:10] Under this fresh snow, this is what remains of 3 hectares of forest after
[00:22:14] clear-cutting. We are on a tree cemetery, when we see this
[00:22:18] type of subject that was cut. We could have avoided cutting it, we can
[00:22:21] exploit wood while
[00:22:25] biodiversity like this one. Patrick Chevalier is a member of the Canopée
[00:22:28] Forêt Vivante association, he documents these wood cutting operations and fights
[00:22:32] to preserve the region's forests. Its inhabitants are also
[00:22:35] activists, they oppose the arrival of a wood pellet factory near
[00:22:39] Guéret. They fear that the future installation of Biocycle will generate two
[00:22:43] problems: the destruction of biodiversity, the natural habitat of
[00:22:46] toads, and the overexploitation of the region's forests (145,000
[00:22:50] tons of wood each year). Projects like Biocil's are
[00:22:53] projects of the past, ultimately they are projects that will emit carbon, that
[00:22:57] will destroy the carbon sink, these are not
[00:23:01] tomorrow. In their sights Biocil, which cites its Auvergne
[00:23:05] factory as an example, it produces 85,000 tons of wood pellets per
[00:23:08] year. The French company has scaled back its operations in Creuse to minimize
[00:23:11] environmental consequences. We
[00:23:14] bought 2 hectares to create a resting area for the yellow-bellied toad,
[00:23:18] and moved the entire factory
[00:23:20] to destroy only a very small part of the wetland
[00:23:24] that we will compensate. There is no project that takes the environment
[00:23:27] into account more than our project, even though we are still
[00:23:31] in an industrial zone. Of the 25 million planned to finance this
[00:23:34] project, 1 million must be financed by European funds. For its
[00:23:38] CEO, Biocil mainly uses wood residues from sawmills and
[00:23:42] trees that are not suitable for joinery. We are the
[00:23:45] solution for managing and maintaining
[00:23:49] the forest. Timber is valued 10 to 20 times
[00:23:53] what wood that goes into energy is valued at. Those who tell
[00:23:56] us that we take wood that could go into sawmills
[00:24:00] are false information. In Guéret,
[00:24:03] this project is a political storm, the mayor reluctantly signed the
[00:24:07] building permit for the new site, but Creuse has lost 60% of its
[00:24:10] population in a century. For the supporters of Biocycle, the 40 jobs
[00:24:14] must be protected. Lacreuse needs business
[00:24:18] leaders, young people who decide
[00:24:20] to invest, to set up their own businesses and to make sure they
[00:24:24] develop, we're very good at it, we're digging, but we don't want to be in the middle of an Indian
[00:24:27] reserve, there you go, the EU supports innovative solutions for the traditional
[00:24:31] wood industry, for three generations, Nodon Maté has been building wooden
[00:24:35] doors and windows, thanks to 1 million euros of subsidies, the company is turning to
[00:24:38] aluminum and PVC and is expanding with 15 new employees,
[00:24:42] it's a real boost for our development but also for the local
[00:24:45] economy, by making employment sustainable,
[00:24:49] local employment. by allowing us to adapt to
[00:24:54] received 12 million euros from cohesion funds, the debate on their
[00:24:58] environmental impact has only just begun.
[00:25:14] the international tapestry city in Aubusson, it's a museum
[00:25:18] that brings together important collections, know-how that dates back to the 15th
[00:25:22] century, it's also a place of training where we train
[00:25:25] weavers, these are people who weave tapestries and there's a
[00:25:29] contemporary creation policy with a large
[00:25:32] tapestry policy like the Aubusson
[00:25:35] Tolkien tapestry and especially more contemporary
[00:25:39] Hayao Miyazaki's imagination. We
[00:25:42] are currently weaving a tapestry
[00:25:45] the anime My Neighbor
[00:25:46] Totoro.
[00:25:53] Valérie Simonet, hello, hello, it's indeed Miyazaki's
[00:25:57] tapestry, we recognize the journey of Sho
[00:26:00] with quite massive support. The European Union, we're talking
[00:26:03] since the creation and opening of this
[00:26:07] international city of more than 3 million euros and then
[00:26:11] for certain projects substantial amounts of nearly
[00:26:15] 40,000 €. Absolutely, it's a real policy
[00:26:18] in which we are rooted, the example of the
[00:26:22] Miyazaki dyeing that is underway, today four
[00:26:25] rather monumental tapestries have been made,
[00:26:29] it benefited from about 50% of
[00:26:32] funds coming from the ERDF to make these weavings,
[00:26:36] behind it are workshops, manufacturers that are also maintained
[00:26:40] in the territory, other activities, I mentioned it with the arrival
[00:26:44] of tourists in our department, so for us it
[00:26:47] truly responds to what these
[00:26:50] European policies are that aim to reduce
[00:26:54] inequality between territories and so a territory like Creuse
[00:26:57] fortunately benefits from it, it works well also for
[00:27:01] for this national city that has developed a lot, yes
[00:27:05] so from a small museum that was there
[00:27:08] to precisely present the collection of departmental
[00:27:12] tapestries, the project from
[00:27:15] 2010 consisted of precisely opening and
[00:27:19] creating new spaces, and then there are also the other induced trades that
[00:27:23] also relate to agricultural
[00:27:27] made of wool, so there's the whole question of
[00:27:30] maintaining sheep herds in a department like ours
[00:27:33] and of finding a wool
[00:27:36] industry, even in Brussels we see that inequalities are
[00:27:40] widening between departments, how do you explain it and in the context of Creuse, what is
[00:27:43] missing from the equation? We know the
[00:27:46] complexity of obtaining these European funds, but you know that
[00:27:50] in any case in France today there's a
[00:27:52] discourse that would want more
[00:27:55] simplification that protests against standards and
[00:27:58] constraints, but we can
[00:28:02] level it's a bit complicated to distribute billions
[00:28:06] like that without any evaluation of what it has brought
[00:28:10] and produced, in any case,
[00:28:12] we can on institutions like
[00:28:15] ours mobilize active forces
[00:28:19] to precisely complete the files and bring
[00:28:23] them to fruition, the reality is perhaps quite different
[00:28:26] when we are working on projects that take place on a very small scale
[00:28:30] and I advocate for making the college
[00:28:32] active and for ensuring that instead of having multiple entry
[00:28:36] points to support a project, there should be a single
[00:28:39] counter. Thank you, Ms. Simonet for being our guest, thank you for following
[00:28:43] us through Creuse, a department that tries to highlight
[00:28:46] its assets, and you can find a program
[00:28:50] dedicated to Corsica, other regions in difficulty, a
[00:28:54] handicap since it's an island, on our channels and our
[00:28:57] website.
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[00:30:22] East wars, you will hear him, we will also take stock of the latest
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