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       global activity will pick up in 2021, with an                                                                     À MONACO,
       expectation of around 4%. The eurozone’s GDP
       is expected to decline by 7.5% in 2020 before
       rebounding to 3.9% in 2021.” However, not all                                                                     UNE GRANDE
       countries are in the same boat: China and the
       United States, for example, are spending the
       lion’s share: “At $1.9 billion, the new budget                                                                    INSTITUTION
       package of the Biden administration should
       give a strong boost to growth in the United
       States in 2021 and offer considerable positive
       spillover to trading partners,” according to the                                                                  AU SERVICE DE
       IMF, who say that “China is expected to grow
       8.4% this year.” Whilst some economists fear
       an impact of the health crisis until the end of                                                                   VOTRE PATRIMOINE
       the decade, others hope that the 2020s will be
       prosperous and ‘roaring’, like the 1920s after
       the First World War. Today everyone wants to
       see immunisation as the light at the end of the
       tunnel. “We now have 52 factories working 24
       hours a day, seven days a week in Europe to
       produce Covid-19 vaccines,” announced the
       European Union’s ‘Mr Vaccination’, Thierry                                                          © Michael Alesi / Direction de la communication
       Breton, to various different media. Next is
       producing and delivering to Europeans the
       360 million doses planned at the end of the
       second quarter and the 420 million needed   Grimaldi Forum
       to aim for collective immunity in mid-July.   Everyone is looking at the Israeli example:   Could this be a glimpse of what’s to come?
       In Monaco, in mid-April, nearly 30% of the   having become the vaccination kings, the   Or are we looking at the pre-Covid-19 world
       population had already been vaccinated.   country has rediscovered the taste of freedom.   again? We’ll have to wait and see.



       The health crisis has given birth to a new vocabulary and,
       perhaps, changed what we think is true                                                                                                              BANQUE POPULAIRE PRIVATE BANKING

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       The tone was set at the start of the pandemic:   WhatsAppéro/Skyp’Ero/Clapping at 20h: what   Essential Goods/
       language and and lexical lessons would be the   kept us going through a typical lockdown day,   Activities: little by
       order of the day.  Is it le or la Covid-19? The   first time around.  little, philosophical                                                           MONACO MONTE CARLO PALACE
       Académie Française duly debated and decided                         questions  have
       that it would be LA Covid-19 that was caused   Webinar/Zoom Meeting/VPN:  the  new   crept into the daily                                                       3/9  Boulevard des Moulins
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       by the global pandemic, along came the brand   decided whether work meetings are organised   to answer the following: Is culture an essential                        banquepopulaire.mc
       new vocab that we all use today.  in-person or remotely.            activity? Discuss.

       Lockdown/De-confinement/Curfew: defining   Asymptomatic/Anosmia (loss of sense of   Pangolins/Scaly Anteaters: a little over a year
       the limits of our free movement.  smell)/Ageusia (loss of taste)/Viral Load/  ago, only a zoologist would have been able to
                                         RAT: our medical vocabulary has grown and the   tell you about these nice little insectivores but
       Social Distancing/Barrier Measures: affecting   little knowledge we have on the basics means   now, after top billing on the news for several
       our habits and interactions with other civilised   we have opinions about everything.  months, children are drawing them all the time.
       people, so that we better protect ourselves,
       adopting a whole new style for our faces – style   Incidence Rate/R-Number:  our  distant   In conclusion, after more than a year, we are all   *Appel non surtaxé, coût selon opérateur
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