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.
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.