Valdai Club

Without leaving behind the Francophone experience of African states and the baggage of interaction within the existing integration associations, African countries are now experiencing a new wave of self-redefinition. The emerging sovereignty of African states and neo-Pan-Africanism are gradually forming two extreme camps. On the one hand, they have a soft understanding of the legacy. On the other, they are moving away from it, Anna Barsukova writes.

The events in France painted the autumn with a special color. The actions of Yellow Vests, which began from dissatisfaction with environmental changes, so popular in Europe, became a source of internal political demands and added new nuances to the development of the Fifth Republic.