France, on the road to the precipice

France, on the road to the precipice

Emmanuel Macron emerged in 2017 as a political anomaly in France. And he is on track to end up the same way. The French president managed to be elected by making his way against all odds between the two major political forces at the time: the Socialist Party (PS), whose government he had been part of as Minister of Economy under the presidency of François Hollande, and The Republicans (LR), the latest brand of the Gaullist movement, whose last two presidents had been Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. It was a radical shift in axis.

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Esther Niubó: “We have to redirect the situation to finish the course well”

Esther Niubó: “We have to redirect the situation to finish the course well”

The Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Esther Niubó, speaks with La Vanguardia one day after chairing the meeting between her department and the unions that have been holding a standoff in the streets for two months. Niubó defends the agreement, claiming that never before had 2 billion euros been put on the table for educational improvements. She believes there is room for agreements within it and assures that the Government will not leave the table until it is achieved.

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Nixon in China

Nixon in China

February 1972. First official trip of a President of the United States of America to the People’s Republic of China. Richard Nixon lands in a China still immersed in the turbulences of the so-called Cultural Revolution; an agrarian-based country with a very precarious industrial infrastructure, internationally isolated, at odds with the USSR since Stalin’s death in 1953. A collectivized country where almost everyone rides a bicycle. A poor economy that barely represents 9% of the volume of the United States.

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