Video: Europe’s growing energy crisis

Sep 21, 2022

1262 issue: week ending 23 September 2022

The Rio-Antirio bridge in Greece, one of the longest of its kind in the world, has turned off its eye-catching decorative lights as the country scrambles to save energy with winter looming. Government buildings including the Greek parliament and mayor’s office in Athens have also gone dark, as too have motorways across swathes of Belgium as energy prices in Europe soar.

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DISCOVERY NORTH AFRICA

In Morocco hills, cannabis farmers bet on budding industry • FRANCE 24 English

In the hills of northern Morocco, vast cannabis fields are ready for harvest, but farmers complain that a government plan to market the crop legally is yet to deliver them any benefits. The marginalised Rif region has long been a major source of illicit hashish smuggled to Europe while Moroccan authorities, wary of social unrest, have often turned a blind eye.
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