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French president Emmanuel Macron inaugurates the very first of a series of offshore wind farms, off Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), the deployment of which he intends to accelerate in the face of the energy crisis. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal meets his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte in The Hague. IMAGES
France will be putting out a major call for tenders in 2025 to increase its offshore wind farms production, with the aim of reaching 10 gigawatts by 2035, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday at a conference in the Brittany region. SOUNDBITE
King Charles III visits City Shamba, an urban farm project located at Nairobi’s Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital, as part of his four-day visit to Kenya. The British monarch listened attentively as the farming procedures were explained and asked questions. The project aims to show how to maximize production in densely populated urban spaces through regenerative agricultural practices. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron shares a working dinner with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte after a visit to the Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. Macron's trip to the Netherlands, the first state visit by a French president to the country in 23 years, has been repeatedly disrupted by protests over his domestic troubles, with the visit's pomp providing little respite from a wave of protests at home against increasing the French pension age from 62 to 64. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte arrive on a boat ahead of their joint press conference. IMAGES