38 million people in Canada

With 37,980,511 inhabitants as of March 20 and annual growth that increases to +1.56% in 2019 (compared to +1.42% in 2018), Canada sees its population grow faster and faster, and will soon pass the mark of 38 million. A very relative figure given the vastness of the country, of which only the southern regions are…

Coronavirus: 100,000+ people infected worldwide

The COVID-19 coronavirus flu is infecting the world more and more. There are Friday, March 6, more than 100,000 people infected, and 3,411 dead in 91 countries and territories around the world. All the continents are affected, in particular Asia, obviously, the first center from which the epidemic started. Europe is then the second most…

The United Kingdom leaves the European Union

On January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom left the European Union. The famous Brexit, which has occupied everyone’s mind in the country but also in Europe for more than three years, ended up intervening, after 47 sometimes stormy years spent within the Union. A historical setback. In doing so, the country loses its privileged access…

COP25: 2019 Madrid Climate Change Conference

The COP25, the 2019 Madrid Climate Change Conference begins on Monday, December 2nd and runs until December 13th. It takes place in Madrid, capital of Spain, after being displaced following the withdrawal of Brazil first after the election of its new president Jair Bolsonaro, notorious climateosceptic, then at the last minute of Chile, because of…

70.8 million people uprooted worldwide in 2019

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has just released its annual statistical report on uprooted people. By the end of 2018, the organization had 70.8 million people forced out of their homes against their will. This number has never been higher in nearly 70 years of the Office of the…

Africa: the world’s largest single market in the making

Africa is becoming the largest single market in the world. A trade treaty, called the Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) will come into effect after ratification by 24 countries. It should eventually extend to 55 countries of the continent. The decision to launch the Continental Free Trade Area Project was taken in January 2012 at…