Gunboat diplomacy off the Channel Islands
The U.K. and France are engaged in a standoff over post-Brexit fishing rights around the British Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey.
Politics
The national issue of regional elections
The regional elections of June 20 and 27, 2021 foreshadow what will happen, in one year, for the presidential elections: the games of alliances sometimes against nature will be tied to block the road to Marine Le Pen. There will be sport.
Covid-19: Emmanuel Macron’s daring gamble
Viewpoint- By announcing the return to freedom after a year of confinement and various restrictions, did the President of the Republic take the risk of a new outbreak of the virus? Decryption.
58% of the French support the military authors of an open letter
While the Army Chief of Staff, General Lecointre, announced sanctions against the 18 active military personnel who signed an article published by Valeurs Actuelles, a Harris Interactive poll for LCI revealed that a majority of French people support the authors of this open letter.
Hydrogen trains: a gadget for the greenies?
The SNCF today announced an order for 14 TER trains with mixed power. The electric motors of these trains can be powered either by the catenary or by a hydrogen fuel cell that will take over on non-electrified tracks.
The ecologists struck by the virus of madness
Whether they are in Poitiers, Bordeaux, Lyon, Strasbourg or elsewhere, the ecologist elected officials are affected one after the other by a French variant of the virus of bullshit. With no known vaccine or treatment.
Macron closes schools for three weeks
The President of the Republic calls on the French to make an extra effort to keep the epidemic under control. He also suggests that the end of the tunnel will be reached by the end of May 2021 with a gradual return to normal and an acceleration of vaccination for all.
Covid-19: Red alert in April
The peak of the 3rd wave is expected on April 18, 2021, according to mathematical projections by the University of Washington’s IHME, when there could be more than 600 deaths per day in saturated hospitals.
The Prime Minister Castex : 16 departments redefined
The Prime Minister and the Minister of Health announced on Thursday new measures to curb the epidemic of Covid. The restriction of freedoms concerns 16 departments for four weeks but schools and shops of first necessity will remain open.
Three elections, one goal: the Elysée
With three months to go before the departmental and regional elections and one year to go before the presidential election, the electoral campaign has just begun. Special arrangements and warm-up before the race to the Elysée.
Bygmalion: another test for Nicolas Sarkozy
Only two weeks after his heavy conviction in the first instance in the case known as “wiretapping”, the former president of the Republic appears again before the correctional court, from March 17, 2021, this time in the case of illegal financing of his campaign in 2012.
Sarkozy: three years in prison, one year closed
The former president was convicted of corruption and influence peddling. His lawyer, Thierry Herzog, and former magistrate Gilbert Azibert received the same sentence.