France s citizen climate assembly: A failed experiment?
Emmanuel Macron s experiment in participatory democracy is under fire after more than half of the proposals from citizens were dropped from the French climate law.
A diverse group of 150 French citizens were given a crash course in climate science, quizzed experts and debated policy
Amandine Roggeman was vacationing in Greece in August 2019 when she got an SMS saying she had been picked to take part in a convention on the climate for French citizens. Would she, the message asked, be interested?
The 27-year-old, who works in the cultural sector in Paris, had only vaguely heard about France s upcoming experiment in direct democracy.
As France rolls out its Covid vaccination campaign, president Emmanuel Macron announced that a randomly selected panel of 35 citizens will accompany the scientific committee overseeing it.
By Sarah Elzas - RFI
JAN 7, 2021
Why are France s elderly, and most vulnerable to Covid, not queueing up to get vaccinated? Frustrations with the slow pace of democracy after the Citizen s convention on climate. And France s presence in India: when it lost (and won back) Puducherry from Britain.
France has decided to start its Covid vaccination campaign with the elderly in care homes, which partly explains why it has been so much slower than its European neighbours. France is unique in requiring “informed consent” to administer the vaccine and the pre-vaccination doctor s visit is slowing down the process. Laurent Levasseur, chairman of Bluelinea, a company working with 1,000 French nursing homes, talks about why the take up rate for jabs is currently so low, the importance of family GPs in gaining people s trust and how little will in fact change for residents if they do consent to the vaccine. (Listen @1 35 )
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France has decided to start its Covid vaccination campaign with the elderly in care homes, which partly explains why it has been so much slower than its European neighbours. France is unique in requiring “informed consent” to administer the vaccine and the pre-vaccination doctor’s visit is slowing down the process. Laurent Levasseur, chairman of Bluelinea, a company working with 1,000 French nursing homes, talks about why the take up rate for jabs is currently so low, the importance of family GPs in gaining people s trust and how little will in fact c