CERCLE DIPLOMATIQUE - issue 04/2020

LE MONDE NEWS
Latest update from around the globe
Text: Daniela Pötzl
PHOTOS: ALEXEY TROFIMOV/ THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, ADOBE
STOCK, ASEAN VIET NAM 2020
In her revealing, funny, and inspiring
memoir, seven-time New York
Times bestselling author and former U.S.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright –
among the world’s most admired and
tireless public servants – reflects on the
challenge of continuing one’s career far
beyond the normal age of retirement.
“Hell and Other Destinations. A 21st
Century Memoir“ reveals this remarkable
woman at her bluntest, funniest, most intimate, and most serious.
Recently, the book has been published also in German by Dumont.
ISBN 978-0-0628-0225-5 (English)
ISBN 978-3-8321-8399-8 (German)
BOOK TIP
About a diplomat’s life
NEW STUDY
Call me!
After months of social distancing, people are leaning
heavily on technology for a sense of social connection. But
new research from The University of Texas at Austin
suggests people too often opt to send email or text
messages when a phone call is more likely to produce the
feelings of connectedness they are longing for.
The researchers found when people really interacted, they
felt significantly more connected when they communicated
by talking than by typing.
utexas.edu
PHOTO COMPETITION
Exciting weather conditions
Now in its fifth year, “The Royal
Meteorological Society (RMetS) Weather
Photographer of the Year“ competition
2020 provides a platform for the world’s
very best weather photography, depicting
weather in its widest sense. The weather
in its many forms can make for some of
the most stunning photography. Like the
one pictured here – Alexey Trofimov won
the competition category “Public
Favourite“ with his great shot “Baikal
Treasure“, taken at an expedition on the
ice of Lake Baikal in Siberia at noon. Lake
Baikal is the world’s deepest and largest
freshwater lake and renowned for its many
ice formations and their turquoise
appearance.
rmets.org
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ASEAN STATES
World’s largest free trade agreement
China signed the world‘s largest free trade agreement with 14 Asia-Pacific
countries at the 37th ASEAN summit on November 15. After eight years of
negotiations, the signing took place at the end of the virtual summit of the
Southeast Asian community of ASEAN states in Vietnam‘s capital Hanoi. The
“regional, comprehensive economic partnership” (RCEP) comprises around a
third of global economic output. In addition to the second largest economy,
China, the ten ASEAN countries Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia,
Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar,
Brunei, Laos and Cambodia, as well
as Japan, Australia, South Korea
and New Zealand are participating.
asean.org
PRECHTLGUT
WAGRAIN
„Privat-Winter“ im eigenen Luxus-Chalet in Wagrain
Das Bergdorf Prechtlgut in Wagrain ist das perfekte
Urlaubsdomizil, um in diesem Winter ganz unter
sich zu bleiben. Ob mit der Familie, mit Freunden oder
„ganz allein zu zweit“: Das Bergdorf Prechtlgut im
„Stille-Nacht-Ort Wagrain“ steht für Urlaubsglück nur
mit den Liebsten. In ihnen verbindet sich die Natur in den
Bergen des Salzburger Pongaus mit einem Gespür für
Gastlichkeit und die Bedürfnisse der Zeit zu einem gelungenen
Ganzen. Allem voran bieten die Luxus-Chalets
ihren Gästen mehr Distanz, Platz und persönliche Freiheit
als jedes Hotel. Das Motto „Urlaub wie damals, mit
dem Luxus von heute“ prägt das Wohngefühl und viele
liebevolle Details schaffen eine Behaglichkeit, die in Zeiten
wie diesen einfach guttut. Mit dem eigenen Almspa
und dem Rundum Wohlfühlservice, der die Gäste von
früh bis spät direkt im eigenen Chalet mit allerlei Köstlichkeiten
und auch Wellnessanwendungen versorgt, ist
für den perfekten Urlaub gesorgt.
Prechtlgut Wagrain • A-5602 Wagrain Hofmark 1 • T: +43 (0)676/ 73 01 911 • prechtlgut.at • E: info@prechtlgut.at