Category: Politics

The government was threatened with power outages in winter

The government was threatened with power outages in winter

A little over six months had passed since Elizabeth Bourne had arrived at Matignon. It’s little more than six months since the former prefect, who was called on to manage the climate emergency as well as tensions over energy prices amid the war in Ukraine, is taking stock of why the prime minister’s residence is […]

Anne Hidalgo was offensive against Rachida Dutt, but was criticized by the majority

Anne Hidalgo was offensive against Rachida Dutt, but was criticized by the majority

The November session of the Paris Council, on Thursday, November 17, was almost content, as usual, with a sharp but firmly binary opposition between the Paris Right and Left. The draconian increase in property taxes decided by Ana Hidalgo, or more lightly, for example, the allocation of a subsidy by the Paris City Hall to […]

Supplementary pensions from the private sector: Ursaf’s counterattack

Supplementary pensions from the private sector: Ursaf’s counterattack

The hour of response has arrived “Ursaf National Fund”. On Thursday, November 17, its leaders held a press conference to respond point by point “disinformation” and that “fantasies”. For more than a year and a half, the organization responsible for the collection of social insurance contributions has been the subject of a controversy linked to […]

Christophe Castaner was appointed as the head of the board of directors of the Mont Blanc tunnel

Christophe Castaner was appointed as the head of the board of directors of the Mont Blanc tunnel

According to a presidential decree published on Friday, November 18, former interior minister Christophe Castaner has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of the French concession company for the road tunnel under Mont Blanc. Official Gazette. The 56-year-old early Macronist succeeds Thierry Repentin, mayor of the Chamber and minister delegate for vocational training […]

France 2030: The government intends to use the recovery plan as a weapon in the coming trade war

France 2030: The government intends to use the recovery plan as a weapon in the coming trade war

Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne and 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to Alain Aspect at the Optical Institute of Paris-Saclays University (Esson), 18 November 2022. Thomas Samson / AFP Conceived as a response to France’s industrial decline revealed by the crisis caused by Covid-19, France 2030 could become a tool in the trade war that is […]

In Guadeloupe, the bitter end of the ‘paused’ unvaccinated fight against Covid-19

In Guadeloupe, the bitter end of the ‘paused’ unvaccinated fight against Covid-19

“We’re still here! » To thunderous applause, on Tuesday, November 8, Patricia Pioche, Deputy General Secretary of the General Union of Workers of Guadeloupe (UGTG), closed a meeting with a raised fist that lasted two hours in the parking lot of the University Hospital Center (CHU). Point-a-pitre. For ten months, we have been holding a […]

Corinne Lepage, former environment minister: “Nuclear energy is one of the most expensive forms of energy and it makes us dependent on Russia.”

Corinne Lepage, former environment minister: “Nuclear energy is one of the most expensive forms of energy and it makes us dependent on Russia.”

has With few exceptions, the current presentation of nuclear power in the media and public discourse is part of a movement that is unfortunately gaining momentum: an alternative truth dear to Putin, Trump and a few others. This has the unfortunate consequence of telling a completely false story, using a well-known proverb: “The bigger, the […]

EELV Congress: Environmentalists shunned by militant youth

EELV Congress: Environmentalists shunned by militant youth

Members of a recent renovation collective block cars on the ring road in Port d’Ivre, Paris on November 11, 2022. Camille Millerand “For the World” Klimt or Van Gogh submerged in liquid, roadblocks where activists from the French collective’s recent renovation Getting hands on the tarmac… Every day calls for new direct action from young […]

Budget: Government delays “cost sharing”

Budget: Government delays “cost sharing”

During the budget debate in the Senate on November 17, 2022. Bertrand Guy / AFP In the end, there will be no question of “cost sharing” during the Senate budget debate, which opens on Thursday, November 17. At least not on the seats of the presidential party. The presentation of an amendment to the 2023 […]

Areas of Progress lose fifteen members who refuse to merge with Renaissance.

Areas of Progress lose fifteen members who refuse to merge with Renaissance.

They refuse to be swallowed by the presidential party. Fifteen members of the Territories of Progress (TdP), the left-wing majority party of Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt, announced on Thursday 17 November that they were leaving the movement in protest at its dissolution under Renaissance. . Less than ten days before the TdP Congress scheduled for […]