INFRASTRUCTURE NEWS BLOG
The Infrastructure News Blog propose un aperçu de l'actualité mondiale en rapport avec le thème des infrastructures dans le contexte géopolitique. Le blog sera mis à jour régulièrement pendant la durée de l'exposition.
JUILLET 2025
Israel levelling thousands of Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions
Israel has demolished thousands of buildings across Gaza since it withdrew from a ceasefire with Hamas in March, with entire towns and suburbs - once home to tens of thousands of people - levelled in the past few weeks.
Greek dock workers will refuse to unload Israel's 'murderous cargo'
The military-grade steel cargo on board the Ever Golden was set to be transferred to a ship owned by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund before being taken to Israel
The World Internet Conference (WIC) briefs media on Digital Silk Road Development Forum
With the theme "Embracing the Digital and Intelligent Maritime Silk Road – Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace", the forum will focus on digital trade under the Belt and Road Initiative and AI-driven private sector development, and smart, sustainable international transport
Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away
One would rightly quail if just a few foreign firms owned Europe’s roads, ports or electricity grid. Yet, for 15 years, this is precisely what we’ve allowed to happen to our tech infrastructure — the backbone of our economy and democracy.
Quantum tech is coming — and with it a risk of cyber doomsday
The EU, and much of the rest of the world, wants critical infrastructure to move to post-quantum security by 2030.
Russian oil or mass layoffs: A German town's conundrum
In Schwedt, life flows through an oil refinery. If it doesn’t get help — or restart Russian imports — people worry their jobs will be gone.
JUIN 2025
Italy’s grand plan to meet NATO target: A €13.5B bridge to Sicily
Faced with a daunting new NATO spending target, Italian politicians are proposing that a long-discussed €13.5 billion bridge to Sicily should be defined as military expenditure.
China breaks more records with surge in solar and wind power
Between January and May, China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind, enough to generate as much electricity as Indonesia or Turkey
The world wants China’s rare earth elements – what is life like in the city that produces them?
Environmentalists note that part of the reason that China has been able to dominate global supplies of rare earths at competitive prices is because, as well as being rich in natural resources, it has also been willing to let poor, rural people bear the brunt of the toxic, dirty work. But now China wants to clean up its image.
Trump can pull the plug on the internet, and Europe can't do anything about it
Trump is back — and with him, the risk that the U.S. could unplug Europe from the digital world.
India's Kashmir railway is an engineering feat - and an occupation project
India's new railway in Kashmir is less about connectivity and more about consolidating control through spectacle, displacement and militarisation
Dutch brawl over airport noise sets tone for rest of Europe
The government is moving to limit flights at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, but that’s angering activists and the aviation industry. The battle over the airport has become so bitter that it’s even given rise to a new Dutch word, schiphollen, meaning “manipulation, lies and distortion of facts,” something people living near the airport say they’ve been subjected to.
MAI 2025
Abandoned infrastructure one of the biggest polluters in the world – report
Emissions from abandoned coalmines, oil and gas wells globally are larger than any single country except China, the US and Russia
Europe is flushing its water down the drain
As climate change brings heatwaves, droughts and sudden bursts of torrential rain, much of Europe's leaky water infrastructure is dangerously underprepared for the coming storm.
Artificial intelligence threatens to raid the water reserves of Europe's driest regions
The EU wants to compete with the U.S. and China on artificial intelligence. But critics say policymakers haven't planned for the sector's extreme water demand.
Britain is wide open to Russian undersea sabotage
Critical gas pipelines, power lines and data cables are the “soft belly of British security,” ministers have been warned.
AVRIL 2025
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
Clean energy's share of world's electricity reaches 40%, report says
More than 40 percent of the world's electricity was generated without burning fossil fuels in 2024, according to a new report from think-tank Ember.