2024-10-16
1 小时 1 分钟As one of the biggest court cases in Portugal’s history kicks off, we discuss the effects of the collapse of Banco Espírito Santo and the Espírito Santo Group ten years on. Plus: Donald Tusk’s new plans to curb asylum in Poland, a dispatch from the Paris Motor Show 2024 and architecture news. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
You're listening to the Globalist, first broadcast on the 16th of October, 2024 on Monocle Radio.
The Globalist, in association with UBS, live from London.
This is Globalist with me, Emma Nelson.
A very warm welcome to today's program.
Coming up, 10 years after the collapse of Portugal's biggest private bank, the trial begins of those accused of bringing it down.
But a decade on, campaigners worry it's too late for justice to be done.
Also coming up, why is Poland removing its right to asylum?
The prime minister says it's down to Russia and Belarus pushing migrants over the border, but critics wonder whether it's to appease the right wing.
We'll have more.
Plus, if authoritarian countries support each other, people from countries who believe in freedom and democracy have to support each other even stronger.
We find out how a Ukrainian Nobel Prize winner views the fight to keep freedom alive.
Plus, why France is dressing up its electric cars in a very familiar garb.
The papers come today from Nairobi and we get the latest architecture news, too.
That's all ahead on the Globalist.
Live from London.
First, a quick look at what else is happening in today's news.
The US has given Israel 30 days to increase the amount of access to humanitarian aid to Gaza or risk a cut in military assistance.
Israel has also launched another strike on the Lebanese capital, Beirut in the last few hours.
And North Korea says around one and a half million young people have applied to join or return to the army this week alone.
Stay tuned to Monocle Radio throughout the day for more on these stories.