Trump gives in to China

Technology items (computers, smartphones, microprocessors, etc.) have been removed from the list of Chinese products taxed at 145% by the United States. A setback that will be followed by others. And heralds the decline of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

China vs USA (UnlimPhotos)
Today's event
Marine Le Pen at the European Parliament (© Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons)

Marine Le Pen ineligible : a political earthquake

Marine Le Pen was sentenced on Monday by the Paris Criminal Court to five years’ ineligibility with immediate execution, together with a four-year prison sentence, two of which were suspended, and a fine of 100,000 euros. She will therefore be ineligible to stand for the 2027 presidential election.

immigration (coastguard photo)

580 million people are eligible for asylum in France

An alarming study by the Observatoire de l’immigration et de la démographie (OID) reveals that the French asylum system could theoretically concern almost 7% of the world’s population, according to current criteria.

The A69 construction site nears completion (capture X Ecrins)
Justice

The administrative court invalidates the A69 project: now what?

After two years of legal wrangling, the Toulouse Administrative Court ruled that the Toulouse-Castres freeway project was illegal, finding that there was no “imperative reason of overriding public interest”. Other complaints are pending.