Bernard Guetta leaves for a "world tour" after stopping his column on Inter – 02/07/2018

(AFP) – Bernard Guetta will embark on a "world tour" for investigations published at Flammarion, after stopping his daily column on France Inter, said the journalist on Sunday. AFP.

"The idea is to go around the world of a dozen countries" by settling there two to three months each time, and "to write the story of a journalistic investigation", specified Bernard Guetta.

Two books of about 250 pages should be published every fifteen months or ten years of program investigations: three countries are already programmed over two years.

"It is a return to journalism that I practiced before the radio, the big report The world has changed for at least two years as much as with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the cold war (…) with the Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, the push of the extreme-right in Europe I need to go to discover this new world, "said Bernard Guetta, 67.

Among these destinations, the journalist intends to go through the United States. United "before the next presidential election" and Hungary, "the cradle of illiberal democracies".

Radio France Inter, where he presented his column "Geopolitics" since 1991, had indicated that he wanted to keep his voice on the air: he could stay there with "big stories" for the upcoming summer grids or between each book.

After beginning at the Nouvel Observateur, Bernard Guetta became a correspondent for the newspaper Le Monde in Vienna, Warsaw, Washington, and Moscow. He received the Prix Albert-Londres in 1981 for his articles on the Polish crisis.

While ensuring his daily column on France Inter, he directed the editorial offices of L'Expansion and Nouvel Observateur, and collaborated with the Swiss newspaper Time, Liberation and Express.

The journalist was recently a columnist for Challenges and the Italian magazines L'Espresso and Internazionale, collaborations he should keep in the fall, he said.