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Hybrid Forum – The Bridge Tank gathers 30 personalities & experts to explore EU-China relations and engage with 150 practitioners

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The Bridge Tank gathered Irina Bokova, former Director General of UNESCO, Brune Poirson, Vice-President of the United Nations Environment Assembly and former Secretary of State to the French Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, Edmond Alphandery former Minister for the Economy, François Loos, former French Minister for Industry and former Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade, Brice Lalonde, former Minister for the Environment, Jean-Claude Beaujour, lawyer and Vice-President of the France-Americas Foundation, Joël Ruet, Sylvie Bermann, former French Ambassador to China, the United Kingdom and Russia, Stéphane Gompertz, former French Ambassador to Austria and Ethiopia and Africa Director at the Quai d’Orsay, Geneviève des Rivières, former Canadian Ambassador and President of the Latin America and Caribbean Institute, Raphaël Schoentgen, former CTO and Executive Committee Member of ENGIE and former President of Hydrogen Europe, Thomas Melonio, Innovation, Research and Knowledge Executive Director of the French Development Agency, Deborah Furet, Research Director of the EHESS, and Emmanuel Dupuy, President of the Prospective and Security in Europe Institute, among the keynote speakers of The Bridge Tank’s forum.  

On this occasion, the experts and political figures exchanged about the changing globalisation, green investment and finance, evolving human exchanges and green transitions in France, China and the European Union.

This event, co-organises with the Chinese Embassy in Paris, focused on the Sino-European relations and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on them, and took place on the 15th of October 2020. 

Coronavirus Shows Healthcare Needs Global Governance

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BY IRINA BOKOVA, HAKIMA EL HAITE, GEORGE PAPANDREOU, JOËL RUET

We firmly believe it is time to re-consider every country’s health security, using global governance tools that already exist. If we have the will and resources to invest into financial stability or limit global heating, why is health security not on the table too?

https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/coronavirus-shows-healthcare-needs-global-governance

COVID-19 : Let us take off our Blinders and Build a New World

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BY HAKIMA EL HAITE & JOËL RUET

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While we are giving in to the emergency, nature and its ecosystems are already preparing the next tornadoes, freezes, fires and floods, the next viruses to resolve the matter, in one way or another.

We have this choice, all together, today, to remove our blinders.

https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/let-us-take-off-our-blinders-and-build-a-new-world

African solutions for the African lockdown

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Hakima el Haite, President of Liberal International, Joël Ruet and Iman Zbib wrote together and article for La Tribune entitled “African solutions for the African lockdown” on the 4th of April 2020. They highlighted the importance of African initiatives to help population go through lockdown, so that the important solidarity funds internationally gathered are used as efficiently as possible. Among the suggested solutions are prevention campaigns, an increased Internet connectivity, financial support distributed through mobile telephony, the installation of water tanks in city districts, the establishment of mobile health units and the blocking of roads by the state and the army to enforce a lockdown without any travel between.

Healthcare needs global governance

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By Irina Bojova, Hakima El Haite, George Papandreou, Joël Ruet.

Irina Bokova, former Director-General of UNESCO, Hakima El Haite, President of Liberal International, George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece and President of Socialist International, and Joël Ruet co-published an article in Diplomatic Courier and La Tribune. It was entitled “Healthcare needs global governance” and published on the 12th March 2020 in French and 19th March in English. They argued that a health global governance had to benefit from a permanent, collective and ambitious handling, especially ahead of crisis.

The four authors called for a permanent connection to be established between research centres, as well as a global network of medicines and medical supplies and a “WHO Academy”. This academy would bring together a permanent panel of pandemic crisis experts, bid data scientists, socio-economic experts, and philanthropy and emergency organisations, as well as a fund dedicated to financing any crisis acceleration. A future stock of vaccines dedicated to the less fortunate, in the South as well as in the North, must also be prepared.

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