Happy New Year 2025 (UnlimPhotos)

Happy New Year 2025 (UnlimPhotos)

Since when does the year begin on January 1ᵉʳ?

Since the 16ᵉ century. In the Middle Ages, the year began on Easter Day. But Easter fluctuated according to the moon. Pope Gregory XIII modified the Julian calendar and had the Gregorian calendar adopted, which removed 10 days in one fell swoop. Thus, Friday October 15, 1582 succeeded Thursday October 4, 1582. Explanatory notes.

Former French-Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili says she is the rightful president (capture Euronews) French-Georgian ex-president Salome Zourabichvili says she is the legitimate president (capture Euronews)

Former French-Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili says she is the rightful president (capture Euronews) French-Georgian ex-president Salome Zourabichvili says she is the legitimate president (capture Euronews)

After Romania, Georgia: An investiture under high tension

Former footballer Mikheïl Kavelachvili, now a figure of the Georgian far right, was sworn in on Sunday December 29, while the outgoing president, Salomé Zourabichvili, a French-Georgian, clung to her seat. In Romania, the election was cancelled.

“Journalists spreading fake news”. Drawing by American cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper, 1894. Frederick Burr Opper/Wikimedia

“Journalists spreading fake news”. Drawing by American cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper, 1894. Frederick Burr Opper/Wikimedia

Covid, Ukraine, Gaza : The Lost Honor of Journalists

Would the dice be loaded? Would global information now be controlled by a few planetary industrial groups? The question is raised with each election, with each crisis, in the United States, in France, and elsewhere. Social networks and lobbies have taken control of our brains.

Pascal Deshayes, President of Coordination Rurale 54 (Photo CR54)

Pascal Deshayes, President of Coordination Rurale 54 (Photo CR54)

The president of Coordination Rurale 54: “They have nothing left to lose”.

Pascal Deshayes, President of the Coordination Rurale de Meurthe-et-Moselle, explains the reasons behind French farmers’ bloodbath: drought, floods, crop failures, epizootic diseases, unfair competition from foreign producers, and insane middlemen’s margins. “60% of farms have no cash flow”, he says. Interview.