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00:00:00has actively supported since the
00:00:06back in the rest of the night edition, thank you for following us on
00:00:10France 24 and France Info. Here are the headlines:
00:00:13Ukraine says it lacks anti-aircraft defense to fight
00:00:17against Russian ballistic missiles. Mirzelensky blames the Middle Eastern
00:00:21wars. You'll hear him, and we'll also review the latest
00:00:24attacks. In Germany, a drone with an explosive device
00:00:27was discovered in an airport not far from a Ukrainian plane. This
00:00:31unprecedented hybrid attack scenario worries the Germans. Another
00:00:35drone damaged a plane. We'll come back to this in this
00:00:38news report.
00:00:41Towards a warming of France-Algeria relations, one of France's most
00:00:44wanted criminals has been
00:00:47at the right time, you need arrested by Algerian police. He is the founder of the DZ Mafia, but we'll
00:00:50see that he's not likely to be extradited for
00:00:52that.
00:01:05Last night was particularly bloody in Kyiv and
00:01:08its surroundings with 17 deaths in strikes
00:01:12that destroyed logistical sites and warehouses. Ukrainian anti-aircraft
00:01:15defense was able to shoot down the hundred drones
00:01:19launched by the Russians, but not the thirty ballistic missiles that
00:01:24development because tapestries are hit and caused fires. The Ukrainian army lacks defensive weapons, deplores
00:01:28Volodymyr Zelensky. Let's see that. With Alice
00:01:30Brogat.
00:01:33After more than 20 hours of
00:01:35preserving subjects that shelter searching, Ukrainian rescuers pull a lifeless
00:01:37body from the rubble. A civilian killed in a Russian strike
00:01:41that occurred the day before on this building in Kramatorsk. Faced with the
00:01:45increasing number of Russian attacks, the authorities of this city in the Donetsk
00:01:49region in eastern Ukraine ordered on Wednesday evening
00:01:52the evacuation of about 500 children and their families who were still
00:01:56living in the city. In the Kyiv region too, the attacks...
00:02:00well imagine that at the European are increasingly numerous and deadly. Along this
00:02:03railway, railway workers evacuate one by one the bodies of
00:02:07victims, killed after a strike on a busy station
00:02:11projects of the future, these are not projects of 30 km from the capital. A local resident testifies to a night
00:02:14of horror,
00:02:18the noise was deafening, and as the air raid siren was still
00:02:22active, I didn't dare to look around
00:02:24me.
00:02:27Then there were explosions, structures collapsing.
00:03:09This situation is mainly linked to the
00:03:13great forgotten one of war,
00:03:14here, it's painting and or as it is now fair to say, to hostilities and wars in the
00:03:17Fressline, it's in the heart of Middle East.
00:03:20Last week, Volodymyr Zelensky went again to
00:03:24Washington to convince Donald Trump to deliver Patriot missiles to him,
00:03:27the only ones capable of intercepting the most
00:03:31powerful Russian missiles, but according to the Financial Times, Trump
00:03:34refused this request due to the shortage of Patriots in American
00:03:38stocks since the beginning of the war in the
00:03:40Middle East.
00:03:43And we continue this news report with this drone laden with explosives discovered in a
00:03:47German airport, that of Leipzig Halle. The device reportedly
00:03:51did not explode due to a technical issue. This event is not attributed to
00:03:55Russia at this stage, but is nevertheless described as a major security
00:04:01France. 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
00:04:04the future. Creuse has Meyer. A demining robot
00:04:07inspects the tarmac of Leipzig airport in the middle of the
00:04:09night. A drone equipped with explosives has just
00:04:13been spotted only a few meters from these Antonov Airlines
00:04:16planes, a Ukrainian freight company. Shortly
00:04:19after, a DHL
00:04:23aircraft hits a flying object in mid-flight. The plane had just
00:04:26been diverted following the closure of the airport. It is
00:04:30fortunately only slightly damaged. Berlin
00:04:33denounces a possible hybrid attack, a threat
00:04:36taken extremely
00:04:38seriously.
00:04:41I fully understand the intuition that these threats are not the work
00:04:45of amateurs. On the contrary,
00:04:48they require very professional
00:04:52preparation
00:04:55based on and execution. This represents a new level of
00:04:58threat. Why is this incident so
00:05:01worrying? Leipzig airport is a key logistical hub
00:05:05for NATO. It allows for the transport of equipment and
00:05:09civilians to Ukraine, which Berlin
00:05:12beginning of the Russian invasion. So, according to the Ukrainian ambassador in
00:05:15Germany, the responsibility for this incident undoubtedly
00:05:19lies with Moscow. Berlin mentions the possible involvement of
00:05:23foreign powers, an anti-terrorism investigation has been opened.
00:05:26The developments this time in the Middle East with new
00:05:29exchanges of strikes on the southern border of
00:05:33Lebanon. The Israeli army announced that it was carrying out operations following
00:05:37a violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah. A Taliban media outlet
00:05:40reported one dead and 11 wounded. However, there are
00:05:44negotiations currently taking place in Rome between Lebanese
00:05:48and Israelis in the presence of Americans for the deployment of pilot
00:05:52zones. Explanation by Claire Duamel, our correspondent in
00:05:54Jerusalem. Israel says it targeted the
00:05:58roof of a building that was located in a
00:06:01cemetery in the city of Tebnin, a targeted strike
00:06:04therefore, say the Israelis, which is in response to a presumed
00:06:07violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah, that is in any case what the
00:06:10Israelis say, who speak of a blatant violation but do not provide
00:06:13further details, and then for the first time in several weeks a little
00:06:17earlier in the day Israel had ordered an evacuation
00:06:21order for another village in southern Lebanon which is located
00:06:25nearby, a village where civilians had been able to
00:06:28return as the Israeli army had
00:06:31withdrawn, these strikes in southern Lebanon which are therefore part of a context of
00:06:34negotiations taking place at this very moment in Rome between the
00:06:38Israeli state and the Lebanese state, this
00:06:41is the 7th round of negotiations that
00:06:44notably provide for the deployment of the Lebanese
00:06:48army in pilot zones evacuated by the Israeli
00:06:51army, this is the objective of these negotiations, but these negotiations
00:06:54are extremely difficult notably because the main belligerent is not
00:06:58part of them, Hezbollah who has refused these negotiations since
00:07:02the beginning, Naim Kassiam who is the secretary general of the Shiite movement who said
00:07:05today, I quote, that these negotiations brought nothing but
00:07:09shame, humiliation and successive compromises. In this
00:07:12context, we clearly see the limits of these negotiations which, for now,
00:07:16have not achieved the objective of disarming
00:07:19Hezbollah. In the United States, in the primaries that are to
00:07:23determine the candidates for the November midterms, the surprise Abdul
00:07:26Al-Sayed, he will finally be the Democratic candidate for Michigan to
00:07:30retain the senator's seat. He, a doctor, won against a more
00:07:34moderate candidate. He is therefore part of the left wing of the
00:07:37party in the so-called progressive movement, which also brought
00:07:41Zoran Mamdani to power in New York a few months ago. Jules
00:07:44Boateau.
00:07:47He wants to embody the Democratic renewal. Abdul El
00:07:51Sayed, son of Egyptian immigrants, will represent
00:07:54the party in Michigan for a Senate seat after his victory in the
00:07:58primary.
00:08:00I want to express all the gratitude I feel for being able to participate in this beautiful
00:08:04democracy. My family immigrated from a place where there is no
00:08:08democracy, you simply cannot run, as the great Muhammad Ali would
00:08:11say. We have shaken the
00:08:13world,
00:08:16shaken the world, but especially the Democratic Party with
00:08:20a radical political line. Facing the
00:08:22centrist candidate Aillie Stevens, former advisor to
00:08:26Barack Obama, Abdul El Sayed campaigned against the influence of
00:08:30big donors and pro-Israel organizations in American
00:08:33politics. Supported by so-called progressive
00:08:36figures like Bernie Sanders or Alexandria
00:08:39Ocasio-Cortez, he now wants to prove that a radical
00:08:43voice in the Democratic Party can block the MAGA Republicans. Donald
00:08:47Trump himself seemed to welcome this result.
00:08:51Great news for the Republican Party, the communist
00:08:53loser Elsayet, who hates Jews and Israel, won the Democratic
00:08:57primary. The insane proposals of the idiot Democrats
00:09:01will get even worse. But before facing Donald Trump's
00:09:05candidate, Abdul El Sayed will have to unite his own
00:09:08party. The end of the primary was marked by personal attacks
00:09:12and frontal opposition on the issue of support for
00:09:15Israel. After the announcement of his victory, the
00:09:18now Democratic candidate immediately called for
00:09:22unity.
00:09:25FIFA apologizes, it was the uproar of these last few days after the
00:09:28disclosure of the commercial entity project. The International Football
00:09:32Federation recognizes errors after a crisis meeting of its executive
00:09:35board, an apology accompanied by a commitment to ensure that they do not happen
00:09:39again, can be read in this statement. The members of the board
00:09:42also reaffirm their full support for Gianni
00:09:45Infantino.
00:09:48And we often talk about this DZ Mafia, a criminal organization
00:09:51from the northern districts of Marseille, and we learned that one of the
00:09:54founding protagonists was arrested
00:09:57in Algeria more than two weeks ago, arrested under an international
00:10:01arrest warrant issued by France. He is not in
00:10:04detention but under judicial supervision in Algeria. Jules
00:10:07Boyto.
00:10:11He is considered one of the five or six founders of the criminal
00:10:14organization DZ Mafia. Medi
00:10:17Laribi, alias Tic, was arrested in
00:10:21Algeria at the end of July on the execution of a French arrest warrant.
00:10:26Originally from the northern districts of Marseille, Medy Laribi's face first
00:10:29appeared on the big screen in several small roles in cinema, including the character
00:10:33of Rashitik in Karim Dridi's film Hamza,
00:10:37which gave him his nickname. Having become
00:10:40a figure in the underworld as an adult, he associated himself in early
00:10:432023 with other personalities from the Marseille underworld to create the
00:10:47DZ Mafia, in reference to Algeria. Together,
00:10:51they conquered the city of Marseille and extended
00:10:55to other French cities in just a few months.
00:10:58Medy Laribi made a name for himself in a particularly bloody
00:11:01war, won against another organization, the Yoda
00:11:05clan. Following this, he was targeted by an arrest warrant in the
00:11:09context of Operation Octopus, which targeted the DZ
00:11:12Mafia. Already last March, 26 people
00:11:15had been indicted, including three alleged leaders of the organization.
00:11:19Medy Laribi, on the run for several years, reportedly
00:11:22operated from abroad.
00:11:25The priority of French justice in the fight against drugs and organized
00:11:28crime has been arrested in Algeria. Thank you to the Algerian
00:11:32authorities for this progress and this cooperation in conjunction with the national
00:11:36anti-criminality organized prosecutor's office and the
00:11:38Marseille prosecutor's office. Medy Laribi was then placed
00:11:42under judicial supervision by the Algerian authorities, who never
00:11:46extradite their nationals. But this major arrest is part
00:11:50of a period of warming diplomatic relations between France
00:11:54and Algeria.
00:11:57And that's the end of this newscast, thank you for watching, next edition in about twenty minutes.
00:12:28Hkin Creuse is an association that mainly rescues abandoned Nordic
00:12:32dogs. It opened the association in
00:12:352019. Clearly, without European funds, Hkin would never have seen the
00:12:39light of day. It funded almost 50% of the overall
00:12:42project, almost €95,000. So we
00:12:46have reached 36 dogs
00:12:49now, about 3,000 people a year
00:12:53who come to enjoy the activities. or as I explained, we go directly to the
00:12:57facilities.
00:13:01Hello everyone and thank you for joining us from all over Europe. Today we are in one of
00:13:04the French departments most in difficulty and
00:13:08which is losing its population, the Creuse, and its 115,000 inhabitants, and this
00:13:12Creuse is trying to develop with the support of European
00:13:15funds to boost its
00:13:18growth but also its
00:13:20demographics. We will look at a few examples right away. On our
00:13:24way.
00:13:35"Is the department of Creuse the
00:13:38Europe?
00:13:41The whole point here of European funds is precisely
00:13:45to manage this decline which has demographic origins but
00:13:49also economic ones. So we see that European
00:13:52funds there have little..." ripple
00:13:55effects, with however some
00:13:59companies that manage to mobilize these European funds usefully
00:14:02and who also easily declare
00:14:06that if these European funds did not exist, they would probably
00:14:09have left the territory. On the ground, few project
00:14:13leaders, and those who knit their European files correctly make
00:14:17their ball of yarn, essential aid.
00:14:20I am de la Roussière, I am the director of the
00:14:24spinning mills still active in
00:14:26restarted in 2006 with 6
00:14:29employees, today we are a good thirty and it is true
00:14:33that the ERDF Massif Central helped us a lot because we
00:14:36have an investment budget of about 4 million and the ERDF
00:14:40supports us up to almost 1 million, it is a project that is
00:14:43still exceptional, this project of expansion of sums to 4
00:14:47million. Yes, it's true, these European funds for
00:14:50our rural territories are essential, otherwise the
00:14:54project. Yes, to say that the banks follow
00:14:57because they know that there is co-financing, Europe,
00:15:01region, at war, European funds will help
00:15:05transform this very small laundry business into an
00:15:09SME, multiplying the seven employees by two in the coming
00:15:12years.
00:15:14We had an exceptional allocation of ERDF
00:15:18with an advance of 30%, which allowed us to reserve our
00:15:22equipment. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry cites
00:15:26the company as an example, meaning that there is a project at
00:15:293.7, in Creuse, there aren't that many
00:15:32projects of that scale, there are a lot of VSEs, very small
00:15:36businesses. 98% of the geographical
00:15:40sector had to help it calibrate
00:15:43its project to go from a
00:15:47pseudo-artisanal structure, so to speak,
00:15:50to a real industrial project, which is not the case for many companies
00:15:54that are hampered by, in particular,
00:15:57complex files. For them, Europe, the term they will use
00:16:00is bureaucracy. Barely populated with 20 inhabitants per square
00:16:04kilometer, compared to 125 in France, this department struggles
00:16:08to be heard at the regional level, and despite cohesion efforts in
00:16:11France, the gap between the richest and poorest territories
00:16:15is
00:16:15widening.
00:16:23So we find ourselves at the confluence of the Creuse with another
00:16:26river, the Sédelle, in front of the ruins of
00:16:29Croissant, which inspired the romantics, the Austrian George Sand,
00:16:33and her lover Frédéric Chopin for the music, and we
00:16:37are with Pierre Vessex, hello, hello, with many
00:16:41people who come today to visit this very beautiful fortress, it is the most
00:16:45visited place anyway with its 25 to 27
00:16:48visitors, but it is also a place that is the heart of the tourist
00:16:52destination Valet despins, this emblematic site is an emblem for
00:16:56the department of Creuse as for the department of Linde, and this with
00:17:00some help from the European Union, it
00:17:02needs crystallization work, we are on a historic
00:17:05monument, these are envelopes that are always a bit substantial given the
00:17:09position of the place which often requires work that we
00:17:12will be everything brought by helicopter, these are projects that
00:17:16are at least between 20 and 30% actually financed by
00:17:19the European Union, so isn't Creuse falling into the famous
00:17:23development trap denounced by Brussels, which consists when projects
00:17:26are finished, not developing? It is very sparsely
00:17:30populated and then with an income of
00:17:33€24,000 per inhabitant per
00:17:37year, which is well below the national average of
00:17:39€41,000. It is a territory that certainly has some large
00:17:43companies, but in fact it wanted to transform and
00:17:46capitalize on this history of painters, this history
00:17:50also which is really very spectacular when we look at what is
00:17:53behind us, and so it was to make this cultural and
00:17:57heritage notion a key issue for economic development but also an
00:18:00issue that will allow them in the long term, by revitalizing the image
00:18:04of the department, to reattract populations to the territory. We need to find a delicate
00:18:08balance that allows residents to live
00:18:11year-round and have sufficiently attractive sources
00:18:15of income thanks to tourism, and well, we are going to see another example of this
00:18:18indeed very cultural tourism too.
00:18:36Yeah, I took my brush because... it's a painting workshop today with you
00:18:39Pierre, and we're also with Laurence Rouet who is the
00:18:43vice-president of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region where Creuse is located.
00:18:46What exactly are we doing here? Tell me what we're doing
00:18:51exhibition. We're in the village of
00:18:55the Creuse valley in a territory called the valley of painters, and this
00:18:58territory hosted Claude Monet, so you created the Monet
00:19:01Moulinart space, right? With
00:19:04the help of Europe. So the overall budget of the project was
00:19:08around just under a million euros at the European level, it's
00:19:12€273. Oh, well, Laurence, we're going to
00:19:15visit with you, because Creuse is a
00:19:19very small department in the large Aquitaine region, it's
00:19:22barely 12 million in cohesion
00:19:26funds over the period 2021-2027, in
00:19:29this large Nouvelle-Aquitaine envelope, €875 million,
00:19:33it's the smallest
00:19:36department in terms of population and one that is losing population, but it's not the
00:19:39only one. There's a demographic issue in general in Creuse, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and
00:19:43in France. So Creuse still has 19% of its population
00:19:46below the poverty line. It's a land of
00:19:50livestock, it's a land with a historical
00:19:53industrial past that
00:19:56had to be supported. We invested, for example,
00:19:59in La Souterraine, we try to be reactive, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine
00:20:03region, and with the help of European funds as well, when there are
00:20:07industrial accidents, difficulty in bringing projects to fruition, these are things
00:20:11that concern us a lot, because France in general is a very bad
00:20:15student of cohesion policy, which is not achieving its goal
00:20:18despite 18 billion over the seven-year period we were talking
00:20:21about for this country which is not achieving its goal of rebalancing regions and
00:20:25departments. We are very attached to cohesion policy, so perhaps
00:20:29we need to further simplify certain
00:20:32procedures. The fact that regions and we believe a lot in
00:20:36the fact that regions, the more they are directly involved, the
00:20:40more control they have, the better they will be positioned to help
00:20:43local projects emerge. You are here in a territory that indeed
00:20:47has attractiveness issues, questions of
00:20:50decline, battles to be fought from
00:20:54this point of view to bring projects to fruition, but where there is an
00:20:57awareness on which all stakeholders, whether it's the state, whether it's the
00:21:01region, whether it's the department, whether it's all the inter-municipalities and municipalities of
00:21:05Creuse, we have created a specific plan for Creuse, we are facing
00:21:09it, precisely to make the schemes known, to make
00:21:12sure, in any case, when there is a local initiative, when there is a project, an idea that can
00:21:16emerge, well, that we, public actors and public funders, are present from
00:21:20the beginning to be able to break
00:21:24down and simplify as much as possible
00:21:27in an environment that is indeed not simple, and with European funds, we know
00:21:31that the issue is that first you have to be in the right strategy,
00:21:34you have to be
00:21:37engineering, you need a lot of reporting, and then you also need
00:21:41some cash flow because the aid is only paid after
00:21:45long periods of administrative
00:21:48verification. Thank you, Laurence, for being with us. So, regarding
00:21:52the companies that wanted to invest in Creuse, there's a famous
00:21:55biocine that wanted to develop, but there was
00:21:59a lot of reluctance from the timber industry and environmentalists, as
00:22:03Luke Brown reports
00:22:05right away.
00:22:10Under this fresh snow, this is what remains of 3 hectares of forest after
00:22:14clear-cutting. We are on a tree cemetery, when we see this
00:22:18type of subject that was cut. We could have avoided cutting it, we can
00:22:21exploit wood while
00:22:25biodiversity like this one. Patrick Chevalier is a member of the Canopée
00:22:28Forêt Vivante association, he documents these wood cutting operations and fights
00:22:32to preserve the region's forests. Its inhabitants are also
00:22:35activists, they oppose the arrival of a wood pellet factory near
00:22:39Guéret. They fear that the future installation of Biocycle will generate two
00:22:43problems: the destruction of biodiversity, the natural habitat of
00:22:46toads, and the overexploitation of the region's forests (145,000
00:22:50tons of wood each year). Projects like Biocil's are
00:22:53projects of the past, ultimately they are projects that will emit carbon, that
00:22:57will destroy the carbon sink, these are not
00:23:01tomorrow. In their sights Biocil, which cites its Auvergne
00:23:05factory as an example, it produces 85,000 tons of wood pellets per
00:23:08year. The French company has scaled back its operations in Creuse to minimize
00:23:11environmental consequences. We
00:23:14bought 2 hectares to create a resting area for the yellow-bellied toad,
00:23:18and moved the entire factory
00:23:20to destroy only a very small part of the wetland
00:23:24that we will compensate. There is no project that takes the environment
00:23:27into account more than our project, even though we are still
00:23:31in an industrial zone. Of the 25 million planned to finance this
00:23:34project, 1 million must be financed by European funds. For its
00:23:38CEO, Biocil mainly uses wood residues from sawmills and
00:23:42trees that are not suitable for joinery. We are the
00:23:45solution for managing and maintaining
00:23:49the forest. Timber is valued 10 to 20 times
00:23:53what wood that goes into energy is valued at. Those who tell
00:23:56us that we take wood that could go into sawmills
00:24:00are false information. In Guéret,
00:24:03this project is a political storm, the mayor reluctantly signed the
00:24:07building permit for the new site, but Creuse has lost 60% of its
00:24:10population in a century. For the supporters of Biocycle, the 40 jobs
00:24:14must be protected. Lacreuse needs business
00:24:18leaders, young people who decide
00:24:20to invest, to set up their own businesses and to make sure they
00:24:24develop, we're very good at it, we're digging, but we don't want to be in the middle of an Indian
00:24:27reserve, there you go, the EU supports innovative solutions for the traditional
00:24:31wood industry, for three generations, Nodon Maté has been building wooden
00:24:35doors and windows, thanks to 1 million euros of subsidies, the company is turning to
00:24:38aluminum and PVC and is expanding with 15 new employees,
00:24:42it's a real boost for our development but also for the local
00:24:45economy, by making employment sustainable,
00:24:49local employment. by allowing us to adapt to
00:24:54received 12 million euros from cohesion funds, the debate on their
00:24:58environmental impact has only just begun.
00:25:14the international tapestry city in Aubusson, it's a museum
00:25:18that brings together important collections, know-how that dates back to the 15th
00:25:22century, it's also a place of training where we train
00:25:25weavers, these are people who weave tapestries and there's a
00:25:29contemporary creation policy with a large
00:25:32tapestry policy like the Aubusson
00:25:35Tolkien tapestry and especially more contemporary
00:25:39Hayao Miyazaki's imagination. We
00:25:42are currently weaving a tapestry
00:25:45the anime My Neighbor
00:25:46Totoro.
00:25:53Valérie Simonet, hello, hello, it's indeed Miyazaki's
00:25:57tapestry, we recognize the journey of Sho
00:26:00with quite massive support. The European Union, we're talking
00:26:03since the creation and opening of this
00:26:07international city of more than 3 million euros and then
00:26:11for certain projects substantial amounts of nearly
00:26:1540,000 €. Absolutely, it's a real policy
00:26:18in which we are rooted, the example of the
00:26:22Miyazaki dyeing that is underway, today four
00:26:25rather monumental tapestries have been made,
00:26:29it benefited from about 50% of
00:26:32funds coming from the ERDF to make these weavings,
00:26:36behind it are workshops, manufacturers that are also maintained
00:26:40in the territory, other activities, I mentioned it with the arrival
00:26:44of tourists in our department, so for us it
00:26:47truly responds to what these
00:26:50European policies are that aim to reduce
00:26:54inequality between territories and so a territory like Creuse
00:26:57fortunately benefits from it, it works well also for
00:27:01for this national city that has developed a lot, yes
00:27:05so from a small museum that was there
00:27:08to precisely present the collection of departmental
00:27:12tapestries, the project from
00:27:152010 consisted of precisely opening and
00:27:19creating new spaces, and then there are also the other induced trades that
00:27:23also relate to agricultural
00:27:27made of wool, so there's the whole question of
00:27:30maintaining sheep herds in a department like ours
00:27:33and of finding a wool
00:27:36industry, even in Brussels we see that inequalities are
00:27:40widening between departments, how do you explain it and in the context of Creuse, what is
00:27:43missing from the equation? We know the
00:27:46complexity of obtaining these European funds, but you know that
00:27:50in any case in France today there's a
00:27:52discourse that would want more
00:27:55simplification that protests against standards and
00:27:58constraints, but we can
00:28:02level it's a bit complicated to distribute billions
00:28:06like that without any evaluation of what it has brought
00:28:10and produced, in any case,
00:28:12we can on institutions like
00:28:15ours mobilize active forces
00:28:19to precisely complete the files and bring
00:28:23them to fruition, the reality is perhaps quite different
00:28:26when we are working on projects that take place on a very small scale
00:28:30and I advocate for making the college
00:28:32active and for ensuring that instead of having multiple entry
00:28:36points to support a project, there should be a single
00:28:39counter. Thank you, Ms. Simonet for being our guest, thank you for following
00:28:43us through Creuse, a department that tries to highlight
00:28:46its assets, and you can find a program
00:28:50dedicated to Corsica, other regions in difficulty, a
00:28:54handicap since it's an island, on our channels and our
00:28:57website.
00:30:07Back to the rest of the night edition, thank you for following us on
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