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Vivienne Walt
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TIME Correspondent. Fortune Correspondent. grantee. board member. Home Paris, travels anywhere. DM ideas. Always curious.
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🇺🇦Explosion in #NovaKakhovkaDam:
"I see this as a strategic move by #Russia🇷🇺 to halt the #Ukrainian counter-offensive."
and 's discuss potential military advantage for #Ukraine or #Russia on #WorldThisWeek.
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"For 50% he's the Messiah, for 50% he's the devil" one German state economy minister tells me of : He's created thousands of Tesla jobs in eastern Germany. That doesn't mean he's beloved by all, even on the factory floor.
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Grantees & Sebastian Meyer story for explain how plastic travels through the world’s oceans, threatening marine life and the earth’s ecosystems. 👇
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My take in this week: Two years after the shock defeat of by an activist hedge fund they're more pumping more oil than ever. "Biggest disappointment" says one shareholder group.
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The Belgian Data protection authority today declared unlawful, and decided to prohibit, the transfers of personal data of Belgian “Accidental Americans” to the US under #FATCA. According to the Belgian DPA, this data processing does not comply with #GDPR dataprotectionauthority.be/belgian-dpa-pr
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🇷🇺🇿🇦 "#SouthAfrica has a lot of ties to #Russia which it doesn't see the motivation to abandon."
Countries like South Africa "see in Russia an alternative path from #US superpower" says 's on #WorldThisWeek ⤵️
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Great meeting @vivwalt for @FortuneMagazine to celebrate 18 years of Klarna and what's next on our journey fortune.com/2023/04/27/kla
Kylian Mbappé est le seul français à figurer parmi les 100 personnes les plus influentes au monde selon le célèbre !
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Thank you for reading Madame Mayor !
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Se baigner dans la Seine à Paris, certains en ont rêvé, beaucoup en ont parlé et dès l'an prochain ce sera une réalité.
Cette ambition collective sera enfin rendue possible grâce aux Jeux de #Paris2024.
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hi looking to talk to you briefly for a story. Could you please DM me with a number to call? 🙏🙏
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🇷🇺 "Nobody from the Western media is safe anymore in #Moscow, and it's going to be a huge loss for our understanding."
TIME Magazine's explains, following the arrest of reporter #EvanGershkovich, on #WorldThisWeek.
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Justice in the eye of the beholder...
The ties that bind #Trump #Netanyahu & #Bolsonaro 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇧🇷 seen by in #WorldThisWeek 📺⤵️
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Last night at the American Library, journalists convened to discuss Macron's tumultuous second term in a panel moderated by @vivwalt. Organized with @opcofamerica. Rewatch the conversation: youtu.be/f9_oGBN8oj0
Learn about upcoming events: americanlibraryinparis.org/calendar
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Join us Wed 19h30
CET to unpack ’s tumultuous year +
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What has gone wrong in Macron's second term, and what has gone right? Where do we go from here? This Wednesday at the Library, journalists convene to discuss with @vivwalt. Organized in partnership with @opcofamerica
RSVP: americanlibraryinparis.org/event/macronpa
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Also in #WorldThisWeek, we ask about 🇺🇸🇷🇺 tensions over Black Sea #dronecrash, brutal week for banks 🏦📉 + that old chesnut of French politics: the promise it will soon be safe to swim in the Seine 🏊♀️🇫🇷
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my new @TIME cover : The globally beloved Seine river has defined Paris for centuries. Now the city aims to become the world's first giant metropolis where locals can safely jump in the water. time.com/6261729/seine-
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Il y a presque 35 ans, Jacques Chirac faisait la promesse qu’on pourra un jour se baigner dans la Seine.
C’était au cœur de la candidature de , et ça sera bientôt possible, en héritage des Jeux, de nager dans un fleuve dépollué. 🏊♂️
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Rendre la Seine et la Marne baignables.
C'est notre objectif pour 2024. 1,4 milliard d'euros investis, dont la moitié par l’État.
À J-500, nous sommes en passe de réussir ce qui sera l'un des plus beaux héritages des Jeux olympiques et paralympiques de Paris 2024.
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my new cover : The globally beloved Seine river has defined Paris for centuries. Now the city aims to become the world's first giant metropolis where locals can safely jump in the water.
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🇫🇷 President #Macron visits #Africa with a new strategy to improve relations with the continent.
"There is 60 years of bad policy to unpick here, one post-colonial French president isn't going to do it" says , Paris Correspondent for on #WorldThisWeek ⤵️
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Amazing piece of reporting on a horrific attack HRW: Death at the Station: Russian Cluster Munition Attack in #Kramatorsk #Ukraine
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How high-flying lives were shattered in the space of a year. #Ukraine
🇿🇦🇷🇺 #SouthAfrica holding 10 days of joint naval drills with #Russia and #China points towards a "re-ordering of the international spheres of influence."
, Paris Correspondent for Time Magazine, explains on #WorldThisWeek.
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BP vowed to help set the oil and gas industry on a greener path. Many who bought in now feel betrayed fortune.com/2023/02/07/bp- Great piece by
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🇨🇳🇺🇸 "An extremely dangerous prospect to have the de-coupling of the two major economies of the world."
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Much, much more than the year war returned to Europe:
have just the retrospective you need in The World This Year 📺⤵️
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From #Putin’s decision to invade #Ukraine 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 & #XiJinping’s #Covid calculation 🇨🇳 to 🇬🇧 after #QueenElizabeth & King Messi’s #WorldCup 🇦🇷 🇫🇷, join ’s , , & for The World in 2022
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This is what you get when you ask the sports guy to come in to cover a blizzard in the morning show.
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Among other topics, highlighted the joys of non-English commentary: ti.me/3V2OYKK
and wrote on Arab solidarity in Qatar: ti.me/3EPGkbE
And reported from Paris on the political significance of 🇲🇦v🇫🇷:
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Incredible scenes in Paris today as 20,000 people come out to welcome the French team home
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It's been 56 years since anyone scored a hatrick in a World Cup final. Mbappé magic, despite the loss.
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Today's Daily Spotlight: For the millions of North Africans in France, and Paris in particular, the contest between Morocco and France is deeply personal—and even political ti.me/3HBm6Wb
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my take in : for Morocco-France #WorldCup2022 game tonight, Moroccan flags are out in one Paris neighborhood. "We're all with Morocco," one says. Says an analyst: "This isn't just football. It's the very heart of France's existential questions."
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