Yes, yes, there were. They did not necessarily jump out at us but some good news came to brighten up a still difficult year 2021, punctuated again to the sound of Covid-19. So, at the time of the traditional year-end retrospectives, we have chosen ten good news, in different fields. Non-exhaustive list, starting with the return of the blue whales in Antarctica, through the harvest of medals for the Blues at the Tokyo Olympic Games, with gold for French volleyball, as for our handball players. . Another occasion to rejoice in Japan: the fine performances of hexagonal judo. And to stay on the sport, the arrival of Lionel Messi delighted fans of PSG, and beyond.
Also to be greeted, in another register, the end of glue hunting – France being the last European country to have banned this particularly cruel hunting technique for birds. Further north, in Greenland, it is the ban on oil exploration on its territory that will have marked the year 2021.
Good news also, free contraception for women under 25, as well as the doubling of paternity leave, from 14 to 28 days.
And finally, culture: 2021 will have seen Joséphine Baker pantheonized, the artist and resistance fighter being the first black woman to make her entry among the immortals. Finally Cannes crowned the French director Julia Ducournau, winner of the most prestigious prize, the palm of gold.
