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"Une alternative serait alors une organisation intermédiaire, un Euro se déroulant dans plusieurs pays mais dans une zone géographique restreinte, qui inclurait un continuum culturel et faciliterait les transports des équipes comme des supporters. Un Euro qui rappellerait qu'avant d'être un regroupement d'États essayant tant bien que mal de cohabiter ensemble, l'Europe est avant tout un continent avec ses fleuves, ses montagnes, ses rivages, qui furent jadis propices à la circulation des hommes et des idées. "

"A new project launched in Paris might help the city finally achieve a long-held but elusive goal: making the River Seine clean enough to swim in. Paris may have one of the most beautiful urban rivers in the world, but attempts to render the Seine safe to enough to plunge into have been falling short since as far back as 1988, when then-Mayor Jacques Chirac made a never-fulfilled promise to swim in it within five years. More recently, in 2017, the city opened swimming facilities along the more sheltered Canal Saint Martin, which runs through eastern Paris before opening onto the Seine. But even this smaller, more manageable waterway has had to be closed at times when bacteria levels in the water rose too high. Now, however, the city has a plan that might be able to curb pollution more permanently, making it swimmable - and usable as a competition venue - in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Under a public garden near the Left Bank's Gare D'Austerlitz, Paris is now building a vast subterranean water tank that will store stormwater to prevent sewage spilling into the river when the city's drains overflow during heavy rain."