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The Curator

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2024-09-08

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This week on ‘The Curator’ we profile France’s new prime minister, investigate ice-cream urbanism and celebrate the colour blue. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • Hello and welcome to the curator of Monaco Radio with me, Fernando Gusto Pacheco.

  • Over the next 60 minutes, we'll be bringing you some of the very best interviews and reports from the past week here on Monaco Radio.

  • This week, we look at France's new Prime Minister, Michel Barney, in a way.

  • And ironically, it's probably we've heard more of Michel Barny in the UK than in France.

  • Plus, we look at ice cream urbanism.

  • Ice cream shops are sort of like an indicator of walkability.

  • If you're able to bring your ice cream home, if you haven't finished it within your walk without it melting, that is like the sure fire indicator that you're living in a walkable neighborhood.

  • All that and much more in the next hour here on the Curator with me, Fernando Gusto Paseko.

  • We start the show with one of the biggest political stories of the week.

  • Finally, Emmanuel Macron picked France's new Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, the EU's former chief Brexit negotiator.

  • Was that a good choice?

  • Let's have a listen and find out.

  • What a saga.

  • 60 days to finally form.

  • Well, to appoint a prime minister, forming a government is another.

  • Is another thing.

  • Well, Michel Barnet, in a way, and ironically, it's probably we've heard more of Michel Barnier in the UK than in France.

  • That's the first paradox, because Barnier was a minister back in the 1980s 90s.

  • So that also shows his age.

  • He's 73, started his political career in the 1980s and very quickly from the 1990s onward, he spent time in Brussels as a European Commissioner, also as a member of the European Parliament.