UK-France Summit, 3 Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Foreign Films at the Oscars, and More

The World Next Week

Council on Foreign Relations

Politics, News, News:politics

4.6 • 845 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris to discuss migration, trade, security, and other issues; the world enters the fourth year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic; and Academy Award-nominated films spotlight international issues. Mentioned on the Podcast Colm Bairéad, The Quiet Girl Edward Berger, All Quiet on the Western Front Lukas Dhont, Close Sara Dosa, Fire of Love Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front Santiago Mitre, Argentina, 1985 Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front Daniel Roher, Navalny Jerzy Skolimowski, EO Simon Lereng Wilmont, A House Made of Splinters For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/uk-france-summit-3-years-covid-19-pandemic-foreign-films-oscars-and-more

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0:00.0	In the coming week, a UK-French summit takes place in Paris.
0:06.0	The world marks the third anniversary of the declared start of the COVID-19 pandemic,
0:10.0	and foreign films get a spotlight at the US Academy Awards.
0:13.0	It's March 9, 2003, in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.
0:26.3	And I'm Carla Ann Robbins.
0:28.3	Well, Bob, hi, let's start in France.
0:30.5	What a nice place to start.
0:31.5	I'd love to start in France.
0:32.3	I love starting in France.
0:33.3	Okay, we can retire now.
0:35.1	So tomorrow Friday, the UK is still relatively new, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron.
0:43.4	So Sunak is coming in on the high of a maybe UK-Eyo, Northern Ireland deal, but Macron is having a much tougher time with more than a million marchers in the street this week, protesting his
0:54.5	plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. So what are these guys going to be talking about?
0:59.9	Well, I think one very big issue is the illegal migration aspect, or let's say the migration
1:08.8	aspect and their determination about whether it's legal or not,
1:12.0	because some of these migrants are claiming asylum and so forth. But there's been a great deal
1:16.8	discussion. I mean, we should note, this is the first summit between a French president
1:20.2	and a UK prime minister in five years. These two leaders actually met on the sidelines of the
1:24.6	latest cop meeting in Egypt, but... Climate change.
1:27.6	Right.
1:27.9	In terms of formal summity, first one in five years, which in itself speaks volumes.
1:32.1	I mean, we sometimes talk cynically about the three amigos meetings in the U.S. in our hemisphere,
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