that is absolutely essential. 0k, dominic, just to bring you back in, you ve reported from around the world. i guess it s a sort of philosophical question that you raised a little earlier. what do we miss out on? you know, in the uk, our news is relayed for many of us by the likes of bbc, cnn what do we miss out on by not getting a european view and european narrator on news events? i think that one of the things that you see quite a lot is that when something big happens in europe or elsewhere, for an english language audience, we get told that it s happening. we don t know quite why it s happening. we don t understand the context because we haven t been following it. the best example i can think of at the moment is actually the conversations in sweden and finland aboutjoining nato. now, you know, a lot of the reporting that s happened in the uk and in the us about that over the last week has failed to really grasp and explain the context of what the nato debate has been in sweden,
of diplomatic superpower due to its neutrality all these really important elements, which have just been completely swept aside in some of the reporting. and if you have a more kind of decentralized reporting network and you have more constant coverage from these places, then you don t meet those same challenges when something very big comes along. and elvire, just to bring you back in, you said le monde in english will feature a broad range of le monde s articles, except those it deems too french. you were talking about that a little earlier, i think, but i m intrigued. like what? what would you be taking out? well, we re typically taking out anything that has to do with your personal finances or french taxes and that sort of thing. and we re also not going to be translating anything, any wire stories that we publish on the french website because of the time sensitive factor. obviously, in the time it takes for us to translate a wire, we ve already changed it a few times on the fren
there was, i think, some criticism from the high auspices in france about the idea that a french channel would be broadcasting in english. am i right? well, look, the traditional idea of the french language, the language of moliere, was that it must be preserved, it must be looked after, it must not have too much franglais and english words. it won t come as a surprise to you, as being somebody who s half french, half british, having been steeped in that from the word go in my life, that i actually think and i know having worked for the bbc, world service, bbc world, france 24 and reaching out to across the planet, the more we can communicate between each other s cultures, look at our politics in those countries that have free speech because, of course, that isn t true and free news and free reporting, that is not true. and if ever the internet has shown that or indeed real time reporting on ukraine or whether it s partygate as i was again this morning, yes, there was a hesitancy becau
i guess it s a sort of philosophical question that you raised a little earlier. what do we miss out on? you know, in the uk, our news is relayed for many of us by the likes of bbc, cnn what do we miss out on by not getting a european view and european narrator on news events? i think that one of the things that you see quite a lot is that when something big happens in europe or elsewhere, for an english language audience, we get told that it s happening. we don t know quite why it s happening. we don t understand the context because we haven t been following it. the best example i can think of at the moment is actually the conversations in sweden and finland aboutjoining nato. now, you know, a lot of the reporting that s happened in the uk and in the us about that over the last week has failed to really grasp and explain the context of what the nato debate has been in sweden, say, for the last 40, 50 years. the anti nuclear movement, sweden s position as a sort of diplomatic superpow
and if you have a more kind of decentralized reporting network and you have more constant coverage from these places, then you don t meet those same challenges when something very big comes along. and elvire, just to bring you back in, you said le monde in english will feature a broad range of le monde s articles, except those it deems too french. you were talking about that a little earlier, i think, but i m intrigued. like what? what would you be taking out? well, we re typically taking out anything that has to do with your personal finances or french taxes and that sort of thing. and we re also not going to be translating anything, any wire stories that we publish on the french website because of the time sensitive factor. obviously, in the time it takes for us to translate a wire, we ve already changed it a few times on the french website. so, there s no logic in us translating that.