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Portugal’s historic banking trial opens and a pit stop at the Paris Motor Show

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16 October 2024

Episode 3442

01 hour 01 minutes


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As one of the biggest court cases in Portugal’s history kicks off, we discuss the effects of the collapse of Banco Espírito Santo and the Espírito Santo Group ten years on. Plus: Donald Tusk’s new plans to curb asylum in Poland, a dispatch from the Paris Motor Show 2024 and architecture news.

16 October 2024

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Tusk Decisions

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Having built a reputation for being the country which welcomed Ukrainian refugees at the start of Russia’s invasion, Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, has now temporarily removed the right to asylum in the country. The leader blames Russia and Belarus for pushing illegal migrants across the border; so is the move purely political, practical or both?

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Paris Motor Show 2024

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The resurrected Renault 5 in electric form was the talk of the town at the Mondial de l’Auto. Simon Bouvier, Monocle’s Paris bureau chief, joins Emma Nelson to detail what went down at this year’s show.

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