Many records were broken this week.
A few days before Russia declared itself "in a state of war", President Vladimir Putin was re-elected with a score that could be described as "Soviet".
In France, President Emmanuel Macron has decided to mobilize his troops on the worrying situation of the country's finances while the public debt is soaring.
On the more positive news side, the Michelin guide crowned the youngest triple-starred chef in its history while the Minister of Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, welcomed a record drop in CO2 emissions in France. last year.
This news came at the right time as an international summit on nuclear energy opened in Brussels.
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