#France: #ECOWAS: #Niger: The violent remains of the French colonial empire. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.
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🗓️ 20 September 2023
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#France: #ECOWAS: #Niger: The violent remains of the French colonial empire. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-new-france-africa-policy-reduce-troops/
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| 0:30.0 | This is CBSI on the World, I'm John Batcher speaking to the Editor-in-Chief of Strategic |
| 0:39.8 | Europe, Judy Dempsey. |
| 0:41.6 | She's in Berlin. |
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| 0:48.6 | Strategic Europe in which many voices are raised from the European Union and from Africa |
| 0:53.5 | and from Asia, relating to the war in Europe, yes, but also to the legacy of the |
| 0:59.7 | colonial empires throughout Eurasia and Africa over the last several hundred years. |
| 1:06.2 | And the one that caught my attention most was a remark in Judy's most recent collection |
| 1:11.3 | of remarks from her colleagues about France and its colonial empire in West Africa. |
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