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WORLD AGENDA

World Agenda March 2025

By Jordi Bou

March 1, 2025 - March 31, 2025 - Events in March include an EU meeting on defence, an emergency summit to rebuild Gaza, China’s National People’s Congress, Greenland’s snap election, and Canada’s Liberal Party leadership election. Australia attempts to launch first orbital rocket, the Oscars take place in Los Angeles and two eclipses to delight stargazers.

1. Mar 6, Belgium: EU leaders meet to discuss how to pay for European defence needs and how to provide security guarantees requested by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

2. Mar 4, Egypt: Government hosts an emergency summit to debate plans to rebuild the Gaza Strip without displacing its Palestinian inhabitants, marking a “unanimous Arab rejection” of Donald Trump’s redevelopment proposal

3. Mar 5, China: The National People’s Congress convenes for its annual meeting to set the country’s economic direction with Trump’s policies targeting Beijing casting a long shadow over the gathering

4. Mar 11, Greenland: The Inuit nation holds a snap general election with relations with Denmark, Europe and the U.S. at a critical juncture

5. Mar 9, Canada: The Liberal Party hold a leadership election to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after nine years in power

6. Mar 15, Australia: Gilmour Space Technologies schedules an attempt to send Australia’s first orbital rocket, called Eris

7. Mar 3, U.S.: As indie sensations, musicals and papal dramas battle it out in the most wide open contest for Best Picture Oscar in years, Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave and Wicked are among the frontrunners at the 97th Academy Awards

8. Mar 13-14, Space: A “Blood Moon” eclipse – during which the moon turns reddish – will be best viewed from North and South America. It will be followed by a partial solar eclipse on March 29, visible from eastern North America, Greenland, Europe, north-west Africa and north-west Russia

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PUBLISHED: 26/02/2025; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Getty Images, Newscom, Gilmour
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