A European Divorce With Children

In the German Saar region, close to the French border, I discovered how a divorce can be even more painful when the partners are of different nationalities, when there are children involved - and when German law applies. Many thanks to Marie Galimard-Geiss, who devoted us the better part of a day and allowed insight into her family's drama.



I am especially grateful to Hugues Wajnsztok, who did an excellent job on this as a cameraman as well as an editor.
The sound editing was done by Arnaud Riedinger, and he also did a pretty neat job.
A shortened version of this report was used as a VNR in this "7 Days" programme.

Jobless in Germany

There is a harsh reality behind the new German Wirtschaftswunder: Whoever finds himself without a job in Europe's strongest economy is at risk of precarisation. I went to Berlin and Cologne to find out how it all fits together.

This Report was also broadcast as a VNR in this Magazine, and it seems that it didn't go down too well with Andreas Schwab, the German Christian-Democrat MEP who was questioned on it




Cameras: Robert Porsche (Berlin) and Jürgen Piechutta (Cologne)
Editing: Aurélien Bonsignore
Sound: Mathieu Pomes

From coal pits in the Ruhr, clean energy

This report took me to Germany's Ruhr area, where caol mining is quickly becoming a thing of the past. At the same time, the region is taking the lead in exploiting geothermal energy - as though it were forever tied to energy from underground.




Camera: Uli Nowitzky
Editing: Aurelien Bonsignore
Sound: Lionel Halflants