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A Russian court convicted a top opposition activist of treason on Monday for publicly denouncing Moscow’s war in Ukraine and sentenced him to 25 years in prison. It was the latest move in the Kremlin’s relentless crackdown on anyone who dares to criticize the invasion. Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr., an activist and journalist who twice survived poisonings he blamed on the Kremlin, has rejected the charges against him as punishment for standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and likened the proceedings to the show trials during the rule of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. FRANCE 24’s James Mullholland tells us more.

Nicolas Tenzer, a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, talks to FRANCE 24.

  The French parliament is set to send two delegations to visit Taiwan this month after President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial…

Germany will switch off its last three nuclear reactors on Saturday, exiting atomic power even as it seeks to wean itself off fossil fuels and manage an energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.

In our weekly programme we follow the outcome of the French president’s official visit to China.

Talking Europe interviews Irene Tinagli, who chairs the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and is a prominent member of Italy’s Democratic Party (PD). She calls for the completion of the EU’s Banking Union to protect people’s deposits, and for an EU budget that is up to the challenges the bloc faces today. We also touch on the post-Covid national Recovery and Resilience Plans, especially Italy’s plan, and on the Italian government’s decision to declare a state of emergency as a significant influx of migrants arrives on Italian shores.

French President Emmanuel Macron has visited Netherlands on the 11th and 12th of April. On the agenda: strengthening the existing scientific, economic, and artistic collaborations between the 2 countries. FRANCE 24’s Khadija Hadjab went to a quantum start-up incubator to see where pooled European resources to stay ahead of the quantum race.

French unions have called on workers to walk off the job and join protest rallies on Thursday for a twelfth nationwide day of protests against a bill that will make the French work longer.

  THE INTERVIEW (C) FRANCE 24 In a interview with FRANCE 24, Moldova’s minister of internal affairs said that Moscow…

Italy’s cabinet on Tuesday announced a state of emergency on immigration following a “sharp rise” in flows across the Mediterranean, a statement said, in a move aimed at better management of migrant arrivals and repatriation facilities.