The week in the world: from Volkswagen’s deal with Rivian to rampant poverty in Mozambique

The German car manufacturer Volkswagen, one of the largest in the world, entered into a partnership with – unknown to the general public – North American Rivian, which builds electric cars. VW is willing to invest 5 billion euros in this partnership. From Venezuela came the news of yet another cooperation agreement with China and from Brussels the information that the European Union’s agri-food trade balance surplus grew 3% in March . Canada follows the example of the USA and the EU and guarantees that it will also want to impose more customs tariffs on electric cars imported from China