ALSO DENOUNCE THE PERSECUTION

OF 360 MILLION CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE

One in seven Christians

Indeed the finding is clear: more than 360 million Christians were "heavily persecuted and discriminated against" because of their faith in the world in 2022 and North Korea is the worst country for Christians, according to a report by the Open Doors NGO published Wednesday, January 18. This Protestant NGO publishes an annual "global index" of the persecution of Christians, listing all attacks, ranging from "discreet daily oppression" to "the most extreme violence". This annual report reveals a global phenomenon of considerable magnitude.

Twice as many as thirty years ago

Between October 1, 2021 and September 30, 2022, "more than 360 million" Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, Baptists, Evangelicals, Pentecostals from 76 countries were "heavily persecuted in the world, i.e. one Christian in seven". , said Patrick Victor, director of Portes Ouvertes France, during a press briefing.

A number identical to the year 2022. But for thirty years, "the persecution has spread" with today "76 countries with strong persecution against 40" listed in the first index of the NGO in 1993, underlined Guillaume Guennec.

In addition, "the persecution is intensifying in the countries concerned," he added.

In 2022, 5,621 Christians were killed.

The NGO also recorded "4,542 Christians detained" (including 1,750 in India), against 4,277 the previous year, and "5,259 Christians kidnapped" (including 4,726 in Nigeria), against 3,829. The total number churches closed, attacked, destroyed stands at 2,110, down (5,110 in 2021).

All persecutions combined, North Korea rose to the top of the ranking, dethroning Afghanistan. Somalia, Yemen, Eritrea, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Sudan follow.

"80 Christians sentenced" in Iran

Over the past thirty years, three trends have been observed. "The African continent is marked by a rise in power of Islamic extremism", with 26 countries with strong persecution against seven in 1993.

In addition, "Christians are often the victims of religious or ideological nationalism", adds the NGO, citing China, since 2017, or even India, with an "explosion of violence". Finally, the organization deplores "the Christian exodus" in the Middle East: "the abuses of (the organization) Islamic State have encouraged Christians to flee Iraq and Syria".

Totalitarianism, religious nationalism, jihadism, Islamic and clan oppression, corruption are the factors of this persecution, analyzes Open Doors.

REGE-JEAN PAGE

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MAN IN THE WORLD

The verdict is in !

If Chris Evans is the sexiest man in the world according to "People", the title of most handsome man in the world has been attributed by science to Regé-Jean Page, 34 years old.

In any case, this is what London plastic surgeon Julian De Silva tells us on Instagram, explaining that the face of the actor, who drew a definitive line in "The Bridgerton Chronicle", is the one that corresponds the most – at 93.65% – the golden ratio of Phi which has measured physical perfection since ancient Greece.

He is closely followed by Chris Hemsworth, Michael B. Jordan (who started directing with Creed III) and Harry Styles.

Dr. Julian De Silva compiled this ranking using the latest computerized mapping techniques.

He explains :

"These brand new computer mapping techniques allow us to solve some of the mysteries of what makes a person physically beautiful and the technology is useful in planning patients' surgery," he said.

"He easily got the top score for his eye spacing and his eye position also scored high, as did his perfectly contoured lips.

The only slightly lower rating he received was for the width and length of his nose."

Perhaps an additional asset for putting on the James Bond tuxedo.

PHENOMENON IN FULL EXPANSION

NIGHT BREAST EVENINGS

Here is a phenomenon that makes sense in a world where women take on, evenings topless!

No more complexes that they are very small, medium or big have the watches for are pleasures and those of the others !

Moreover in this matter there is amateur and whatever the size of the form and yes !

So more hesitation a topless evening is playful naughty cool and it opens a whole new relationship to the body !

Perhaps the most amazing thing is the benevolence that can be observed in topless parties.

No judgment and for those who think wrongly that her breasts are too small, not beautiful enough a topless evening will make her change the vision of herself and rid of its complexes by discovering the success that will have aroused from other members of the parties.

This type of party started in Europe but it just crossed the Atlantic to arrive in America which has the reputation of exacerbated puritanism.

Well in America it's success too and even a great success !!

An innovation specific to Americans who have even innovated is the marking, can be a trace of their Puritanism but it's fun !

The marking consists in sticking a colored pellet at the top of each breast

Red dot we do not touch, green dot can touch, and some even put a patch of different color for each breast, in this case we only touch the green pastille of course !

Evenings without pellets her so-called "free" and evenings with pellets called "controled" !

In Europe most of the evenings are "free" proof of Europe's advance in freedom but "free" nights are booming in America and are now much more numerous than "controlled".

( Figures from October 2022, 78% free, 17% controlled, 5% indefinite or not communicated )

In this summer period is the time to go to test a topless evening so good evening to all !

A ROLEX OR NOTHING !!!!

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE DELIVERY OF HEAVY TANKS TO UKRAINE ?

Germany will authorize the delivery of Leopard tanks to the Ukrainian army.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has decided to deliver Leopard 2 heavy battle tanks to Ukraine and allow allied countries to do the same, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, while the United States may they too send tanks to Kyiv to help it against the Russian offensive.

The information was welcomed by Ukraine, which had long been asking, through the voice of its President Volodimir Zelensky, for an acceleration of arms deliveries and the dispatch of tanks by its Western allies.

According to the German newspaper Der Spiegel, which first reported the decision from Berlin, the delivery concerns at least one squadron of Leopard 2 A6s. A squadron is traditionally made up of fourteen vehicles. This decision comes a few days after a meeting between NATO allies which did not lead to an agreement on sending heavy tanks to Ukraine.

Germany was facing increased pressure from several European countries, such as Poland, to allow them to supply Kyiv with Leopard tanks and also send its vehicles to help Ukraine in the face of Russia's offensive .

After the Germans, here are the Americans.

A few hours after the announcement made by Berlin of the forthcoming delivery of Leopard 2 heavy tanks to the Ukrainian army, the United States confirmed this Wednesday afternoon the shipment of M1 Abrams model tanks.

Logic: according to the German press, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's announcement only came after discussions with Washington around a joint commitment. 31 Abrams tanks will be sent to Ukraine, a senior American official announced on Wednesday evening, "in line with our efforts to provide Ukraine with the capabilities it needs to continue to better defend itself".

How many tanks ?

Of the 3,500 Leopard 2 tanks in the world, more than 2,000 are in use in 13 European countries. While it is true that Germany has drastically reduced the number of its main battle tanks to a measly 6-7% of 1989 stocks, it could still spare some of its more than 300 Leopard 2 tanks in service, even if only 100 to 150 are ready to use.

The Armed Forces could potentially spare its 19 Leopard 2A5 models used only for practice, along with a few dozen others if politically prioritized and replaced with industry stock later. Together, Germany could then supply about fifty Leopard 2 tanks in a few weeks. Not to mention the 180 older, less powerful Leopard 1 tanks that are still in industry inventory.

The firepower, capabilities and mobility of the Leopard 2s promise a lot to the decimated fleet of the Ukrainians, helpless in this sector against the Russian armada. Impressive technical sheet

Built in series from the 1970s, the Leopard 2 is not the ultimate weapon but it remains a machine with impressive properties. It can roll and fire its shells from its 120mm gun at the same time. With its 450 km range and especially its 1500 horsepower, the Leopard 2 is capable of pushing its top speed up to 70 km/h.

It will still be necessary to deliver them in sufficient numbers and to accompany the expedition with the necessary efforts in terms of preparation, underline the observers.

The United States, for their part, will deliver 31 Abrams tanks.

This heavy tank which features a 120mm gun is the mainstay of the US Army and has been continuously improved since its introduction in 1981.

The announcement is part of an American support program for Ukraine, which has been reinforced for weeks. On January 6, the administration pledged to deliver new aid of 3 billion dollars to Ukraine. At the same time, the government decided on the shipment to Kyiv of hundreds of lighter armored combat vehicles.

A turning point in the conflict ?

At the end of the afternoon, Joe Biden declared at a press conference that the United States would deliver 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. "To strengthen their positions on the battlefield, [the Ukrainians] must be able to carry out maneuvers in open terrain and to defend themselves against the Russian aggressor", specified the president.

The delivery of heavy tanks becomes an alternative solution which should make it possible to open new breaches in the Russian system. It is indeed for the Ukrainians to pierce the concrete wall built by the Kremlin whose forces are always capable of winning as shown by the battle of Soledar.

At the end of the morning this Wednesday, following the German decision, the Ukrainian presidency welcomed the future delivery of the 14 Leopard tanks. While urging Westerners to provide more to fight against Russian soldiers. "A first step has been taken", commented on Telegram Andriï Iermak, the head of the presidential administration who called for the implementation of an international "coalition" to organize the supply of heavy tanks to his country. Finally adding: “we need a lot of Leopards”.

"This is going to become a real punch of democracy against autocracy," Andriy Yermak said via messaging app Telegram.

TWO DEADLY ATTACKS

IN EAST JERUSALEM

The first took place on Friday January 27, 2023 in the evening, near a synagogue, and the second took place this Saturday, January 28, 2023 in the morning, near an archaeological site in the City of David.

The day after a first shooting that killed seven people on Friday evening in East Jerusalem (Israel), the city was again targeted this Saturday.

A father and son were injured in a second attack near an archaeological site.

Facts

In the first shooting, which took place on the evening of Friday January 27, a 21-year-old Palestinian man went near a synagogue in the Neve Yaakov neighborhood during Shabbat prayers and started to shoot at those present.

Seven of them were killed.

Following a chase and exchange of fire with the police, the perpetrator was shot dead.

For the police chief, Kobi Shabtai, it is "one of the worst attacks" suffered by Israel in recent years.

East Jerusalem experienced a second attack this Saturday, January 28, in the morning. It took place near an archaeological site in the City of David, in the Silwan district and injured two people, a 47-year-old father and his 23-year-old son.

The assailant was "neutralized and injured" by bystanders who held a license to carry weapons, according to an Israeli police statement.

Heavy balance sheets, unseen for years, the bloody climax of four weeks of tension between Israelis and Palestinians.

One of the two 13-year-old attackers

Regarding the author of the first attack, little information had filtered about him on Saturday morning. Investigators arrested forty-two people on the sidelines of the shooting. Some of them are family members of the 21-year-old assailant or residents of his neighborhood.

The perpetrator of the second shooting this Saturday is another Palestinian. The police said it was a 13-year-old boy. He was quickly arrested by Israeli security forces.

Cascading reactions

The attack on Jerusalem "is a natural reaction to the crimes of the occupation against our Palestinian people", commented Hamas, while Binyamin Netanyahu promised "immediate measures". US President Joe Biden has slammed an "atrocious terrorist attack" and an "attack on the civilized world".

The head of the American diplomacy, Anthony Blinken, must visit Israel and the West Bank on Monday and Tuesday to insist, according to Washington, on "the urgent need to take de-escalation measures".  

DESPITE A NUMBER UP BY 32%

ONE MORE LAW TO CONTROL

IMMIGRATION IN DANGER

"The effects of the health crisis, which marked the migratory flows in 2020 and 2021, are now partially erased", explained yesterday the Ministry of the Interior.

In total, 34,029 undocumented migrants were regularized (+7.8% compared to 2021), while 15,396 deportations were pronounced, including 3,615 delinquent foreigners. Since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, 65,833 displaced people have found refuge in France.

Regular or not, immigration again broke records last year, not even counting the forced exodus of Ukrainians.

For decades, the subject has not ceased to worry. However, nothing changes, everything gets worse: the makeshift camps are multiplying, tensions in certain neighborhoods or territories are rising dangerously and the links with the increase in delinquency are obvious.

This report comes as the government will bring forward a highly sensitive bill in March. "Its title - bill 'to control immigration, improve integration' - is an ode to 'at the same time'", analyzes a journalist Paul Chaulet.

A balancing act of "at the same time"

The debate on the immigration bill promises to be a little more delicate than expected for the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. Presented next Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, the text will be examined in the Senate in March then in the National Assembly, in May or June.

As it stands, the text transmitted to the Council of State provides for a series of measures to facilitate expulsions, especially of "delinquent" foreigners, a "structural" reform of the asylum system and an integration component, in particular for homeless workers. papers.

"To control immigration, improve integration", summarizes the title of the future law whose executive boasts "balance"

A text that results from a subtle balance.

To speak to the right, he intends to facilitate the measures for the removal of foreigners in an irregular situation, while the executive is accused of not doing enough on the obligations to leave French territory, while also creating a new one-year residence permit for workers in an irregular situation in shortage occupations according to the recurring demands of the left.

Find an agreement with LR

This text must be screened in March by the Senate, under the control of a right hostile to the project, then at the approach of summer in the National Assembly.

And, in addition to the burning issue of pensions, this other major text for the government, on the sovereign aspect, needs the LR vote to obtain a majority.

Except that the task promises to be particularly complex with Les Républicains. Because the vast majority of LR deputies are already expressing reluctance on this text, with a red line: the residence permit for jobs in tension, considered as an opening of the floodgates

"Parliamentary logic would like the text to pass first to the Assembly. So what is the purpose of sending this text first to the Senate, if not to try to find an agreement with Les Républicains?", pretends to question a source familiar with the matter, who believes that the Senate is the "key" to the future of the text.

Its integration component could be reduced to a bare minimum after the upper room washing machine, with the target of the measure of creation of a residence permit "jobs in tension", synonymous at LR with a wave of massive regularizations.

The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin however affirmed at the end of December that “everything that the LRs have always asked for, we offer it”.

The right wants to go even further on evictions

On Thursday, on the occasion of the publication of annual immigration statistics, his only position was on security grounds dear to the right: "Priority has been given to foreign offenders: 3,615 foreign offenders have expelled in 2022 (…) i.e. twice as many" as in 2021.

His ministry recalled on this occasion that the text was precisely intended to circumvent the "brakes" to expulsions, in particular "the existence of remedies" against them.

“Certain” measures, those favoring expulsions, “are going in the right direction but they are very largely insufficient”, has already swept the new president of the Republicans Éric Ciotti, who assured on January 18 that he would vote “against”.

Like his entire political family, which advocates tougher immigration, he felt that the government was "pretending to impose tougher measures". "It's total war," insists an LR deputy, who is already calling for a restriction on family reunification or the halving of student visas.

And what about the National Rally ?

And let's already apply the plethora of existing laws instead of giving new bills to the media !!!

TERRORISM IN SPAIN

MACHETE ATTACK IN TWO CHURCHES

It was 7 p.m. on Wednesday evening when a man entered the San Isidro church in Algeciras in southern Spain.

Armed with a machete, he seriously injured the priest.

An hour earlier, he had already gone there - unarmed - and had argued with parishioners, telling them that they should follow Islam, according to Spanish media.

Once the priest was injured, the man went to another religious building, the Nustra Señora de La Palma church, located 200 m away. He started throwing crucifixes and candles placed on the altar to the ground and attacked a sexton.

and clergyman managed to flee but the assailant ran after him and inflicted several fatal injuries

The sexton was called Diego Valencia. The priest is called Antonio Rodriguez. He was seriously injured in the neck.

"Shortly before 8 p.m., a person carried out a stabbing attack, killing one person and injuring others in the church of San Isidro in Algeciras, in the province of Cádiz", indicated for his part. the Spanish Ministry of the Interior in a brief statement.

And to clarify: "The assailant was arrested and placed in police custody."

According to a police source, the assailant was dressed in a djellaba and "screamed something" at the time of the attack.

Local media, based on testimonies, indicate that the assailant was armed with a machete with which he killed the sexton.

The alleged perpetrator had been pending deportation since June due to his irregular status but he had no criminal or terrorism record in Spain or allied countries, the ministry said on Thursday. Interior Spanish.

The prosecution has opened an investigation for "presumed acts of terrorism" of an Islamist nature.

The mayor of Algeciras has declared a national day of mourning. He invites the population to gather at noon this Thursday, in front of the church where the sexton died.

UKRAINE STRANGLED BY BUSINESS

CASCADE OF CORRUPTION

In the past 24 hours, corruption scandals have affected very high personalities in the country. In addition to the Deputy Minister of Defence, those of Social Policy and Territorial Development were also dismissed.

To this list is added the deputy head of the presidential administration, the deputy prosecutor general, Oleksiï Simonenko, accused of having recently gone on vacation to Spain while travel abroad, except for professional purposes, is prohibited. for men of military age, and finally several regional governors, all forced to leave their posts. Unprecedented scandals since the war broke out.

These senior officials would have received bribes in connection with the contracts.

The deputy minister for infrastructure was arrested on Sunday for having received 400,000 dollars thanks to the overcharged purchase of electric generators. And this while the country is plagued by serious problems of power cuts.

Another scandal affecting military logistics this time: Viatcheslav Chapovalov is one of the defendants.

The Deputy Minister of Defense is thus accused of having participated in the signing of a contract at an overvalued price on food products intended for his soldiers, as revealed by the Ukrainian media ZN.UA.

The amount of the contract would amount to 324 million euros with prices established "two to three higher" than the current tariffs in force for basic food products according to the Ukrainian press.

The Ministry of Defense denied this, but Deputy Minister Viacheslav Shapovalov, in charge of the logistical support of the armed forces, was forced to resign, officially to facilitate the investigation into these allegations.

Business that is all the less acceptable for the Ukrainians in that all this takes place in time of war and that Ukraine, if it wants to continue to benefit from the support of the Western countries from which it is currently demanding modern tanks, must show itself irreproachable on this chapter.

“I want this to be clear: there will be no return to what was done in the past, to the way certain people close to state institutions lived,” Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday evening.

The Ukrainian President has promised new announcements and new decisions in the coming days to fight corruption.

Ukraine's corruption problems did not start with the war:

NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2023 OSCARS

Some major trends have emerged: Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Banshees of Inisherin and The Fabelmans will remain the season's favorites, and their directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Martin McDonagh and Steven Spielberg, respectively, will go head-to-head in the race. to the best achievement.

The comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once received 11 Oscar nominations, announced on Tuesday January 24, and leads the race for the prestigious statuettes, which will be awarded on March 12 in Hollywood. The competition will be fierce for the best film, with the Irish black comedy The Banshees by Inisherin and the very personal The Fabelmans by Steven Spielberg.

The Academy also honored blockbusters Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: Way of the Water, two sequels. They are both nominated for the Best Picture award.

But beyond that trifecta are underdogs, like German war drama In the West, Nothing New. Backed by Netflix, the film follows its 14 BAFTA Award nominations with nine Oscar nominations.

Between ambitious or original narratives and great popular successes, the suspense is at its height this year and the predictions promise to be difficult.

The predictions are complicated by the recent influx of new members of the Academy from abroad, and to whom some attribute for example the success of the South Korean film Parasite, in 2020.

In recent years, the Academy has rewarded independent films less known to the general public, such as Nomadland and CODA.

BEST FILM

In the west, nothing is new

Avatar: The Way of the Water

The Banshees of Inisherin

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Fabelmans

Tar

Top Gun: Maverick

Without Filter

Women Talking

BEST ACTOR

Austin Butler, Elvis

Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

Brendan Fraser, The Whale

Paul Mescal, Aftersun

Bill Nighy, Live

BEST ACHIEVEMENT

Ruben Ostlund, No filter

Todd Field, Tar

Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

BEST ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett, Tar

Ana de Armas, Blonde

Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie

Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans

Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin

Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway

Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans

Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin

Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Hong Chau, The Whale

Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin

Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST ORIGINAL SCENARIO

Todd Field, Tar

Tony Kushner & Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Ruben Östlund, No filter

BETTER ADAPTATION

In the West, nothing new, by Edward Berger, Ian Stokell & Lesley Paterson

Glass Onion: A Daggers Drawn Story, by Rian Johnson

Live, by Kazuo Ishiguro

Top Gun: Maverick, by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie, Peter Craig, Justin Marks

Women Talking, by Sarah Polley

BEST FOREIGN FILM

In the West, nothing new (Germany)

Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)

Close (Belgium)

EO (Poland)

The Quiet Girl (Ireland)

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

Puss in Boots 2: The Last Quest

The sea monster

Red alert

BEST SHORT FILM

An Irish Goodbye

Ivalued

The Pupil

night ride

The Red Suitcase

BEST DOCUMENTARY

All the beauty and the bloodshed

All That Breathes

fire of love

A House Made of Splinters

Navalny

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse

The Flying Sailor

Ice Merchants

My Year of Dicks

THE FRANCO-GERMAN LOCOMOTIVE

HAS THE LEAD IN THE WING

The leaders reaffirmed their full support for Ukraine, but did not decide on the direct delivery of Leclerc (France) and Leopard 2 (Germany) tanks. French President Emmanuel Macron said "nothing is ruled out" regarding the delivery of Leclerc tanks to Ukraine. “I asked the Minister of the Armed Forces to work on it,” he explained during a press conference on Sunday evening, alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The Head of State, however, listed three conditions for this delivery: the first, "that it is not escalatory", the second, "that it can provide real and effective support to our Ukrainian friends" and the third, "that it does not weaken our own defense capabilities. »

Asked about the Leopard tanks, Olaf Scholz said that "the way we have acted in the past is always closely coordinated with our friends and allies and we will continue to act according to the concrete situation". Criticized by many of his allies, especially in the East, Olaf Scholz let his Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, announce on the LCI channel that Berlin would not oppose Poland if Warsaw decided to re-export the tanks to Ukraine. German Leopard in his possession.

But the two leaders have made no secret of the fact that their positions have remained very far apart on a European anti-missile shield project that Berlin wishes to carry out with Israeli and American technologies that already exist, while Paris is pleading for a European solution, on the basis of a system French-Italian.

The only major concrete announcement is Germany's support for the Franco-Portuguese-Spanish pipeline project carrying green hydrogen (H2Med).

On the other hand, they defined a “common line” in favor of an “ambitious and rapid” European response to American industrial subsidies in terms of energy transition. This action must be based on "simplicity" and "greater visibility on our aid systems", according to the French president, who has been maneuvering in recent months to convince European countries, and in particular Germany, to initiate a plan just as massive as that of the United States to avoid the deindustrialization of Europe. The two capitals have therefore given the measure of the calibration of the European response to the American plan to reduce inflation (IRA) whose massive subsidies threaten the competitiveness of the industry of the Old Continent.

Often criticized, the Franco-German leadership is however expected by the other capitals, Paris and Berlin have the responsibility to put themselves in overhang.

Far from being confined to the two banks of the Rhine, the ups and downs of the Franco-German couple also animate the debates in Brussels. The terms “axis” or “engine” are however preferred there to that of “couple”, because they describe more finely the role of Paris and Berlin in the manufacture of compromises at twenty-seven.

Thus the agreement of May 2020 between Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron which had paved the way for a historic recovery plan of 750 billion euros, financed by a common debt.

On most subjects – economy, defence, international trade – the two European powers start from opposite points of view, which structure the space in which the others position themselves. "Since the departure of the United Kingdom, this informal axis has become even more important to build bridges between the east and the west or between the north and the south of Europe", analyzes the Romanian MEP Dacian Ciolos.

In recent months, however, their disagreement has not gone unnoticed. But the accusing fingers rather point to Berlin. Could the Chancellor struggle to extricate himself from his national interests? If Germany has to review its fundamentals, from energy policy to its trade relations with China, while three parties are governing together in Berlin for the first time, the fact remains that Europe is moving away from more and more towards the East, leaving France to the countries of the South...

"The future, like the past, depends on the cooperation of our two countries, as the locomotive of a united Europe", declared the Chancellor,

who called the "Franco-German engine" a "compromise machine" for "transforming controversies and divergent interests into convergent action".

THREE DAYS OF FESTIVITIES FOR THE CORONATION

 OF CHARLES III

Buckingham Palace has begun to unveil for the first time the program for the three days of festivities on the occasion of the coronation of King Charles III. The coronation ceremony of Charles III will take place on the morning of May 6, at Westminster Abbey, like the previous coronations of British monarchs for 900 years.

It will, as tradition dictates, be led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Church.

“The coronation is a solemn religious service, as well as an occasion for celebration and pageantry,” says Buckingham.

The ceremony "will be forward-looking, while being steeped in tradition and long-standing pageantry." Charles' wife, Camilla, will also be crowned.

Charles III and Camilla will arrive in Westminster from Buckingham Palace in a procession called the 'King's Procession'. After the ceremony, they will return to Buckingham as part of the 'Coronation Procession', for which they will be joined by other members of the Royal Family.

Then the king and queen consort, accompanied by members of the royal family, will appear on the balcony of Buckingham, to greet the crowd.

The next day will be a concert at Windsor Castle, west London, with “international music icons and contemporary stars”.

It will be broadcast on the BBC. Buckingham, however, did not mention the names of the artists who will perform on stage.

Among the audience will be volunteers from charities supported by Charles and Camilla.

A "coronation choir" will also perform a concert, featuring singers from refugee choirs, the public health service, LGBTQ+ and deaf singing groups.

In the evening, iconic locations across the UK will be illuminated.

The population will also be invited on May 7 to participate in the "grand coronation breakfast", neighborhood parties to "celebrate friendship".

"Thousands of events" should take place in the streets, gardens, parks, according to Buckingham.

On Monday, May 8, which will be a public holiday, people will be encouraged to volunteer.

The move aims to "bring people together and create a volunteer movement that will last beyond coronation weekend," the palace said.

But will the royal family be reunited ?

Buckingham did not say in its statement if Harry and his wife Meghan, exiled in California, will be present.

GREAT COLD IN SIBERIA WITH -62.7° IN YAKUTSK

But since the beginning of January, the great cold has spread almost to all of Eurasia, from Moscow to Yakutia.

The negative anomalies recorded in the heart of Siberia fell to -30°C, more than the hot anomalies observed on our planet.

The temperature drops to -62.7 ° C in the "coldest city in the world", a record for 20 years

In Yakutsk in Siberia (Russia), the mercury dropped to -62.7°C on Sunday January 15, 2023.

This city considered "the coldest in the world" is accustomed to low temperatures, but never so extreme. Usually in January the average temperature is -40°C.

In total, on the scale of Siberia, the current temperatures make it the most intense cold wave since 1982 in Yakutia. But the minimum and maximum temperatures (-57° at night and -50° C during the day) more generally make it the strongest cold wave since 1994.

Finally, the -62°C readings of Tuesday, January 10th constitute a monthly record for the Zhilinda station (since the opening of the current weather station in 1942).

"You Can't Wrestle"

While Yakutsk is known as “the coldest city in the world”, temperatures are normally not that low.

In January, the coldest month of the year in this region, the average is generally around -40°C.

Faced with this situation, the inhabitants, although accustomed to negative temperatures, must be extra careful.

Such cold can be dangerous, especially because of the risk of frostbite. At present, the entire city is shrouded in "icy fog", according to the North-Eastern Federal University of Yakutsk, whose remarks are relayed by CNN.

A phenomenon that occurs precisely in situations of extreme cold." The air is so cold that the warm air from houses, people and cars cannot rise" which has the effect of blocking the vapor on the ground, as explains the Northeastern Federal University in Yakutsk.

The establishment also sent a note to its students to remind them "that it is not recommended to walk the streets in winter when the temperature is below -40°C".

SCANDAL AMONG DEMOCRATS

AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF NEW CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS AT JOE BIDEN

Five additional pages of confidential documents were indeed found in Joe Biden's family home, the White House said on Saturday, in the room adjacent to the garage. They would a priori concern Ukraine (before the war) and Iran according to the American media. These new discoveries, which date from the vice-presidency of Joe Biden under Barack Obama, were made after the visit to the Thursday evening, from presidential counsel Richard Sauber. The representatives of the Ministry of Justice accompanying him “immediately” took possession of these finds.

Before this week, several documents were discovered in November in an office in Washington, then at the end of December in his private residence in Wilmington, while for 45 years, American presidents and vice-presidents have been obliged to transmit, at the end of their mandate, all of their emails, letters and other working documents to the National Archives.

A special prosecutor for the investigation

In a solemn declaration to the press, the Attorney General (Minister of Justice), Merrick Garland, announced the appointment of a special adviser to investigate the case. This is Robert Hur, former prosecutor of Maryland and ex-executive of the ministry, also passed through the private sector.

The White House, for its part, communicated without delay about these new documents, recalling however that former President Donald Trump, too, was in the sights of justice for having brought confidential papers into his residence. in Florida.

Presidential counsel Richard Sauber reported on the update in a statement released Saturday. He indicates that he went to Donald Trump's successor to supervise the transmission to justice of a first set of confidential documents, found there on Wednesday. With authorization, additional excavations were thus carried out in this other room of the house, leading to these new finds, the same day that the United States Minister of Justice, Merrick Garland, appointed an independent prosecutor to investigate previous discoveries made at the house. the current president.

A lack of transparency?

Last November, other documents were discovered at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, in one of Joe Biden's former offices, and immediately entrusted to justice. However, the information was only revealed to the public on Monday, January 9, 2023, which is already worth criticizing the White House for its lack of transparency.

In addition to this criticism, the discovery of these additional documents could well compromise the political future of the American president.

In the Democratic ranks, where there is a united front around the president, this situation causes some embarrassment. “Any breach of security protocols regarding the storage and processing of classified information is obviously a serious matter,” said elected official Jamie Raskin, in a press release.

"Irresponsible"

The case hurts all the more as his predecessor is also in the sights of justice for having taken boxes of documents when leaving the White House. An attitude described as “irresponsible” by Joe Biden in the fall.

And it could also indirectly discredit Democratic criticism of Donald Trump, who targeted him for the hundreds of secret documents taken to his home in Mar-a-Lago.

Blessed bread for Republicans, who do not hesitate to recall that Biden had theatrically deemed "unacceptable" the retention of classified documents by Donald Trump in the program 60 Minutes.

A politically explosive file

The Republican opposition has been quick to denounce the Democratic leader's actions, picking up on a question thrown at Joe Biden by a journalist from the popular conservative network Fox News, suggesting that he could have left these documents next to his favorite car, a Corvette. "President Biden protects his Corvette better than confidential documents", criticized Republican elected official Buddy Carter on Friday, just before his colleagues announced the opening of an investigation in Congress on this file. They also denounce a justice at double speed.

With their new majority in the House of Representatives, the Republicans intend to exploit any potential Democratic flaw, with the 2024 presidential election in their sights. The opposition is already planning to launch an investigation in the House of Representatives.

There is no doubt that this affair is tarnishing the image of the president, who promised to remove the mystery about a possible candidacy at the start of the year.

Even if the White House pleads “inadvertence”, it is its silence in this affair which makes things delicate for Joe Biden who had nevertheless gained seven points of popularity in seven months.

STRIKE IN FRANCE STRIKE ARM BETWEEN UNIONS AND GOVERNMENT FOR PENSION REFORM

On the one hand, the various ministers, Elisabeth Borne in the lead, have multiplied public interventions in recent weeks to justify this reform as a budgetary imperative, while the seconds have repeated their opposition to any postponement of the age. retirement age, finally scheduled for 64 years by 2030.

Under these conditions, the calls for the “mobilization” of the employees became more and more insistent, with the first days of action being to be expected from the week of January 16th. What to expect from the coming social conflict?

A million protesters

Large processions took place Thursday throughout France to challenge the government's pension reform project while strongly followed strike calls disrupted public transport in particular. According to a police source, the million demonstrators in France will be exceeded

A police source said that the million demonstrators in France will be exceeded, while the official count of the authorities will be given at the end of the day this Thursday.

The CGT announces 400,000 demonstrators mobilized against the pension reform in Paris this Thursday. As a reminder, during the demonstration of December 5, 2019, the first day of mobilization against the previous reform, the union counted 250,000 people.

“Fair and responsible” reform

The President of the Republic was questioned from Spain this Thursday, January 19, 2023 on the January 19 strike against the pension reform. “It is a reform that was democratically presented during the presidential election and the legislative elections. It has been studied with the trade unions and has been validated by the government. It is a fair and responsible reform. France is a little out of step with other countries on the subject and if we want to be fair between the generations, we must carry out this reform”.

Emmanuel Macron had been questioned specifically on the question of a referendum after the announced success of the demonstrations on January 19. He did not answer this question, contenting himself with specifying that the “reform will be done”, in a “spirit of dialogue but with responsibility”.

The Head of State considered it "good and legitimate that all opinions can be expressed" but called for calm demonstrations. “I trust the organizers of these demonstrations so that this legitimate expression of disagreement can be done without creating too much inconvenience for all of our compatriots and obviously without overflow or violence or degradation”, he added.

A united trade union front

Over the years, recourse to strikes has thus tended to refocus on an increasingly small core of employees, in the public services or in certain industrial sectors, while it is reduced to the bare minimum in large fractions world of work, particularly in the service professions and in small and medium-sized enterprises. The last major interprofessional mobilization of the winter of 2019-2020, largely supported by public transport agents, highlighted this well. A resurgence of the wage dispute

Despite its weakening, trade unionism remains an essential player in social conflict. At least for the moment, the conflict that is opening up brings together – for the first time since 2010 – all the trade unions, already burned by the unemployment insurance reform and whose activists overwhelmingly reject any idea of extension of working time. For the first time in 12 years, therefore, the eight main unions called with one voice on the French to take to the streets.

Pensions and the issue of union repoliticization

Thus the pension reform places the trade unions on a crest line, enjoining them to take up a double challenge of magnitude. On the one hand, that of taking advantage of an exceptional unitary framework to build the broadest and most lasting mobilization possible, taking into account the fragmentation of the world of work and going beyond days of action without a future .

On the other, that of reinstating the refusal of reform, massive and inseparable among the opinion of a general opposition to government policy.

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HIS SEPARATION FROM GERARD PIQUE

On January 12, Shakira released a new song where she violently attacks her ex, Gerard Pique, triggering a huge buzz, which has already brought her a lot of money.

Shakira also collaborated with the Argentinian rapper by singing on her last track where the 45-year-old Colombian delivers, with Shakira Bzrp Music Sessions 53, a real outlet against her former companion, Gerard Piqué.

In the song, she indeed openly attacks the father of her two children, Milan (9 years old) and Sasha (7 years old).

“You traded a Ferrari for a Twingo.

You exchanged a Rolex for a Casio (...) Many hours at the gym, but you should also exercise your brain from time to time, "she says. or "You claim to be a champion , and when I needed you, you gave your worst version […] You left me the mother-in-law for a neighbor, with the press at the door and the debt to the Treasury."

For his part, the footballer responded to the attacks of his ex. The day after the release of this title, Gerard Piqué arrived for a professional meeting in a Twingo, and with a Casio watch on his wrist.

Music is at the top of the most viewed videos on the YouTube platform.

Shakira can smile today. Indeed, according to information from the Spanish channel Telecinco, taken up by Marca media, the economic benefits from the various streaming platforms have already brought in a lot of money for the Colombian.

According to their calculations, she has already received nearly 2.3 million euros for her new song!

These break-up songs paid him a lot of money!

Obviously, the break with Gerard Pique became a source of inspiration for Shakira, who has since released no less than three songs and each one has become a real hit.

But how far will the provocations between Gerard Pique and Shakira go ?

WHAT ABOUT DIFFICULTY IN THE PENSION REFORM ?

The day after a first day of major mobilization in the face of the reform – more than a million demonstrators across France according to the authorities, 2 million according to the CGT – the executive insists on the fact that the text is still negotiable.

But there is no question of questioning the overall philosophy of the bill, as the text is about to be debated in Parliament. The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, insisted this Friday, January 20 on the "two essential pillars of the reform": the increase in the number of years of contribution to 43 annuities to benefit from a pension at full rate and raising the legal retirement age to 64.

“They must be preserved because they guarantee this financial balance by 2030, supports the tenant of Bercy on BFMTV. There can always be improvements to this text but I set only one limit: to guarantee financial equilibrium by 2030. All openings and discussions are interesting but they must fall within this financial framework. »

Two talking points

Gabriel Attal, Minister of Public Accounts, for his part opened the door to very targeted discussions. “We can still progress and enrich our project on two subjects. One, the chopped quarries [...]. Second thing, the employment of seniors, we can probably go further, ”recalls the former government spokesperson.

Gabriel Attal explains that “leave to help a loved one or a child with a disability” was not taken into account in the “long career” system provided for by the pension reform. "During periods when the French had to stop working for reasons suffered, perhaps we can enrich things," explains the minister.

Same observation on the question of the employment of seniors: "A lot has been done to make it progress. We can probably go further", admits Gabriel Attal, who recalls that the government wishes to set up a "senior index" to encourage companies to employ more employees over 55 years of age. “These are very concrete elements that we can continue to enrich through discussion,” insists the Minister.

But the project for the future of the pension system includes measures to prevent professional wear and tear. During the reform presentation on Tuesday, January 10, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne insisted on this point.

What about hardship at work ?

Four avenues are currently being considered by the government for physical or repetitive jobs: the creation of an investment fund of one billion euros for the prevention of professional wear and tear; the implementation of reinforced medical monitoring for employees with a difficult job; the possibility of financing retraining leave; the extension of the professional prevention account (C2P) to more employees and with more rights.

This famous C2P, born of "Macron orders", had replaced in 2017 the term "difficulty" in "professional risk factors" and had removed 4 factors (heavy loads, painful postures, mechanical vibrations and chemical risks) from the previous system, the personal hardship prevention account (C3P). But in December 2022, the Court of Auditors presented this C2P as “an unambitious and uncontrolled device” in its thematic public report on public policies in occupational health in companies.

Shouldn't we then also rethink with the social partners this precise point which stumbling blocks for long careers?

Work plays a determining role in the differences in life expectancy and health status between citizens. This finding is validated by numerous studies linking exposure to hardship factors with, in particular, early exit from employment, or state of health after 50 years. Disability-free life expectancy is also correlated with occupational categories.

However, the government refused to reinstate the 4 criteria excluded in 2017, while allowing, however, in the pension reform for employees exposed to heavy loads, painful postures and vibrations to benefit from new rights, each professional branch having to list the trades concerned. .. but subject to official recognition of incapacity. And this is where the shoe pinches: it creates a risk of mismatch between professions, some branches being able to recognize a profession as painful and others not.

One of the measures which should therefore only have a limited effect in order to avoid or reduce the evils of work.

The intersyndicale has announced a new mobilization date on January 31, 2023.

WILL BORIS PISTORIUS' GERMANY DELIVER LEOPARD TANKS TO UKRAINE ?

On January 19, 2023, the German Chancellor, Olaf Schoz, indicated that his next Minister of Defense would be Boris Pistorius, then Social Democratic Minister of the Interior and Sports in the Lower Saxony state government.

He is a "highly experienced politician, who has been dealing with security policy for years", argued Mr. Scholz. He is, "thanks to his skills, his ability to impose himself and his big heart [...], exactly the right person to lead the Bundeswehr through this changing era", he added.

A seasoned regional elected official, this 62-year-old social democrat, almost unknown at the national level, replaces Christine Lambrecht who resigned on Monday after a series of blunders. Interior Minister of Lower Saxony since 2013, he is a "highly experienced politician, proven in administration, who has been dealing with security policy for years", said Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

A specialist in cybersecurity issues

Boris Pistorius is a lawyer by training and comes from the chancellor's political party. He specializes in issues of cybersecurity, homeland security and migration policy. In recent years, he had made no secret of his national ambitions. His attempt to accede to the presidency of the Social Democratic Party in 2019 had however failed. Then in 2021, he was considered a potential candidate for a ministerial post when the government was formed.

On Tuesday, he hailed a man who brings "a lot of experience in security", as well as the "strength and calm" necessary for the function. Mr. Pistorius said he accepted “with great pleasure” the mission offered by Olaf Scholz, promising to invest “150%”. Given the difficulty of the task, motivation was an essential prerequisite for this position. The Ministry of Defense is traditionally the unloved child of German politics.

RDV in Davos Thursday and Friday on Ukraine

Sweden has already decided to start delivering Archer model long-range guns to the Ukrainian army, a mobile and modern howitzer that kyiv has been asking for for many months, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced on Thursday.

After a government meeting, the leader of the Nordic country announced at a press conference

"the first decision to start delivering Archer artillery systems to Ukraine" to help it against Russia.

"We will meet (Friday) in Ramstein (Germany) in the US-led Ukraine Contact Group and the main message will be increased support with heavier and more modern weapons," he said. he told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Change of time

Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the German Ministry of Defense has had to undergo a revolution, becoming one of the nerve centers of government action.

This is where the big project announced by Olaf Scholz during his speech on the "Zeitenwende" must materialize.

(the epoch change) on February 27, 2022, which ended decades of German defense and security restraint.

These are 100 billion euros of special funds which have been granted to the Bundeswehr, in order to compensate for more than two decades of under-investment in the defense apparatus.

But it is already clear that this sum will not be enough.

It is less a question of gaining power than of making up for glaring shortcomings – lack of ammunition, basic equipment, seriously dysfunctional equipment – ​​so that Germany can honor its international commitments and above all deal with new threats.

From there to providing Leonard tanks ?

A question that is the subject of debate within the government coalition. Pressure from some is increasing for Berlin to allow the delivery of these heavy tanks.

Russia plans to deploy a small number of its new T-14 Armata main battle tanks to Ukraine.

In addition, the Kremlin has warned that the delivery to Ukraine by the West of long-range weapons, capable of hitting Russian territory in depth, would lead to a dangerous aggravation of the armed conflict between kyiv and Moscow.

It is potentially very dangerous, it would mean that the conflict would reach a new level which would not promise anything good for European security, declared the spokesman of the Russian presidency, Dmitry Peskov.

Delivery of long-range weapons would lead to 'escalation', Kremlin warns

"Any desire to destroy Russia will mean the end of the world", thunders the sixteenth patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill.

PERU FACING A SERIOUS POLITICAL CRISIS

AND SOCIAL IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY

Thousands of Peruvians are preparing to converge on Lima on Monday, January 16, to demand the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, despite the state of emergency declared on Saturday in the Peruvian capital and three other regions. Sunday evening, dozens of demonstrators, framed by a large police force, marched peacefully from the city center to the tourist district of Miraflores, in Lima, to cries of "Dina filth, down with the dictatorship" or "Dina, corrupt murder! ".

In addition to the departure of the Head of State, the demonstrators demand the immediate holding of elections and the dissolution of Parliament. They want to reach Lima to give more weight to their claims. In the rest of the Andean country, the blockages, which began in mid-December, continue. The clashes between police and demonstrators have already left at least 42 dead.

State of emergency declared in several cities

The government therefore declared a state of emergency on Saturday January 14 in the capital Lima and several other regions to try to put an end to the demonstrations which have shaken the country since the dismissal of former President Pedro Castillo.

This measure, which had already been decreed in mid-December throughout the country, will be in force for 30 days. It authorizes the army to intervene to maintain order and leads to the suspension of several constitutional rights such as freedom of movement and assembly and the inviolability of the home, according to a decree published Saturday evening in the official journal.

In addition to the capital, the departments of Cuzco and Puno (south) are notably subject to a state of emergency, as is the port of Callao, next to Lima.

Dina Boluarte, the "traitor"

The protests erupted after the dismissal and arrest on December 7 of socialist President Pedro Castillo, accused of having tried to carry out a coup d'etat by wanting to dissolve the Parliament which was preparing to oust him from power.

Dina Boluarte, who was Pedro Castillo's vice-president, succeeded him in accordance with the Constitution and came from the same left-wing party as him. But the demonstrators, who see her as a "traitor", demand her departure as well as immediate elections.

Dina Boluarte refuses to resign.

“We hope that this situation will change radically and that the path of dialogue will be restored,” the president of the Peruvian Council of Ministers, Alberto Otarola, told the Latina television channel. He also reaffirmed that Dina Boluarte “will not resign”. “Out of a sense of historical responsibility and because the resignation of Dina Boluarte would open the door to anarchy. It would be irresponsible for Madame Boluarte to leave when the country is going through these problems. »

Early elections in 2024

In mid-December, Dina Boluarte announced that she wanted to advance the elections to 2024. “No life deserves to be sacrificed for political interests. I reiterate my call for dialogue and the renunciation of violence, “had launched the Peruvian president on Twitter, the day after deadly demonstrations which took place in Andahuaylas, 750 km from Lima.

"I have decided to take the initiative for an agreement (...) to advance the general elections to April 2024", instead of 2026, she added, in a televised message to the nation, for try to calm the demonstrators.

An investigation opened against the president

In Peru, an investigation for "genocide, qualified homicide and serious injuries" was opened by the Attorney General of the State, Wednesday, January 11, against President Dina Boluarte and several senior officials, after a bloody repression of demonstrations demanding the organization of early elections.

The State Prosecutor, Patricia Benavides, took the decision "to open a preliminary investigation against the President, Dina Boluarte, the President of the Council of Ministers, Alberto Otarola, the Minister of the Interior, Victor Rojas, the Minister of Defense, Jorge Chavez, "announced the prosecution. This investigation concerns acts of "genocide, qualified homicide and serious injuries, committed during the demonstrations of December 2022 and January 2023 in the regions of Apurimac, La Libertad, Punon, Junin, Arequipa and Ayacucho", he said. he adds.

Yet another twist in the serious crisis that the Andean country has been going through for several years, which has reached its climax since the dismissal of Pedro Castillo on December 7. The former president, candidate of a left-wing coalition elected in 2021, is accused of rebellion, after having tried to dissolve the Parliament which sought to oust him from power. He was kept in detention for 18 months by a decision of the Peruvian Supreme Court on December 15. Prosecuted for "rebellion" and "conspiracy", the ex-president faces ten years in prison, according to prosecutor Alcides Diaz.

"The conflict risks getting bogged down", according to a specialist

“I fear that a point of no return has been reached, worries Camille Boutron, researcher at the Institute for Strategic Research of the Military School (Irsem) and specialist in Peru. The opening of the investigation by the Attorney General for homicide certainly testifies to a form of judicial independence, but the conflict risks getting bogged down, especially after such a deployment of violence. It's going to be very difficult to calm things down."

In fact, the situation is explosive in Peru, where the demonstrators are demanding both the dismissal of the president, who nevertheless comes from the same Marxist political party as her predecessor, the organization of early elections and the drafting of a new Constitution.

Difficult demands to meet for President Dina Boluarte, faced with a Parliament refusing to dissolve, a climate of tension complicating the organization of a new election, and the political and institutional slump in which Peru has been mired for years .

An ungovernable country with five heads of state in six years

For 32 years, in fact, all Peruvian presidents, with the exception of two of them, have been imprisoned or indicted for corruption. The country has had no less than five different heads of state in the past six years, and the successive leaders between 2001 and 2018 have all been corrupted by the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. We are in a cycle of extremely serious political and institutional instability.

Former President Pedro Castillo proved unable to govern during his year and a half in office. More than 80 ministers succeeded each other under his government, faced with the systematic blocking of a Parliament dominated by a right-wing opposition embodied by the daughter of the former president Fujimori (1990-2000), convicted of crimes against humanity.

A "game of massacre" between elites, which has been going on for years and prevents the implementation of structural reforms, however urgent.

A society plagued by deep divisions

Peruvian society is indeed plagued by strong social and racial inequalities and deep divisions inherited from the colonial era and the civil war (1980-2000), accentuated by the violence of the Covid-19 epidemic.

What explain the exasperation of the population, confronted with the decadence of its political class. This feeling is aggravated by the absence of political parties, civil society organizations or trade union structures capable of bringing about a dialogue between the population and its leaders. "There is no possibility of intermediation between the expectations of the population and its rulers,” laments Jean-Jacques Kourliandsky, director of the Latin American Observatory of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation.

"Voters only have the street to express themselves. I don't know how things will evolve."

"Peru has been completely ungovernable for years", analyzes Jean-Jacques Kourliandsky and associate researcher at the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (Iris).

ITALY'S MOST WANTED MAFIO ARRESTED

AFTER 30 YEARS

In 2018, the Italian authorities attempted to crack down on the Trapani Mafia, but failed to get their hands on Matteo Messina Denaro.

Since 1993, the Sicilian Matteo Messina Denaro had been Italy's most wanted mobster. He was arrested in Palermo, Sicily, on Monday January 16. “Today, January 16, the carabinieri […] arrested the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro inside a health facility in Palermo, where he had gone to undergo clinical therapies”, thus indicated the general from the Carabinieri Pasquale Angelosanto to the AGI agency.

Matteo Messina Denaro, 60, is considered the successor of the great historic leaders of Cosa Nostra, Toto Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, who died in prison in 2016 and 2017. On the Interior Ministry's list of the six most wanted criminals in Italy, this man, born in April 1962 near Trapani, in Sicily, occupies the first place.

A former Cosa Nostra trigger, he had been sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for murder. But the only known photo of him dates back to the early 1990s.

For many years, hundreds of police and carabinieri had been involved in the hunt for Italy's most notorious fugitive. In vain, so important was his support network.

"After thirty years on the run, the superboss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested.

It is with great emotion that I thank the women and men of the State who have never given up, confirming the rule that sooner or later even the greatest criminals on the run are arrested", reacted on WhatsApp Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.

"It's a beautiful day for Italy and serves as a warning to the mafia: the institutions and our heroes in uniform never give up," he concluded.

COVID WHY THE NUMBER OF DEATHS IN CHINA

 IS IT UNDERVALUED ACCORDING TO THE WHO ?

But for the first time since abandoning its “zero Covid” strategy, China admitted on Saturday that nearly 60,000 people had died of Covid-19 between December 8, 2022 and January 12, 2023. Twelve times more deaths in one month than in three years according to official figures. By announcing "59,938" deaths from Covid-19 in hospitals on Saturday, China brought its official toll closer to the real situation.

A number that seems however largely underestimated.

Since December, the Chinese are almost no longer subject to any restrictions. Compulsory isolation and quarantines in centers have ended. At the same time, the health authorities have given a boost to the vaccination campaign among the elderly.

But the specialists are formal: with the sudden lifting of all health restrictions, the real balance sheet is much higher.

Indeed, this report only includes deaths recorded in hospital, submerged for more than a month by an unprecedented outbreak of contamination. No person who died of Covid at home or before being taken care of by a healthcare establishment is counted.

As impressive as it is, Beijing's transparency effort (12 times the total toll of the past three years in just five weeks) is not representative of reality.

Between Dec. 8, 2022, the first post-zero Covid day, and Jan. 12, the death toll from the disease in Chinese hospitals stood at 59,938, said Jiao Yahui, director of the office of medical administration within the national health commission.

Of this number, 5,503 deaths are due to respiratory failure, and the remaining 54,435 result from a combination of Covid-19 and other conditions. The average age of those who died is 80.3, she said. Nine out of ten deceased patients were aged 65 and over.

Until then, China only counted deaths due to respiratory failure, and not deaths "linked" to Covid-19. This very restrictive definition had been criticized by the international community and by the World Health Organization (WHO). The latter welcomed the new Chinese communication.

Estimating, moreover, that "only 5,503 patients died directly from respiratory failure due to Covid-19", the health authorities already seem to be mitigating the scope.

Perhaps to satisfy the WHO, rather than to compel to draw up a credible balance sheet.

A political issue for Xi Jinping

Difficult for Beijing to go beyond. If China started to change the figures, to weigh down the balance sheet a little more, wouldn't that be a way of backtracking on the 'zero Covid' policy that has been carried out?

However, Chinese President Xi Jinping, in office since 2020, today weakened by three years of epidemic, seeks to keep his grip on power. The movements of the millions of Chinese, who find themselves with their families for the Lunar New Year festivities, represent a major challenge for the authorities, who fear a new epidemic rebound.

On site, many hospitals are overwhelmed. The patients would sometimes be so numerous that the stretchers would remain on the sidewalk, according to our special correspondents. Full funeral homes.

A population devoid of protection against the virus

If we assume that 70% of the Chinese population is infected in the next few months, and that 0.1% of those infected die (a conservative estimate of the mortality rate of omicron in a population with low exposure to SARS-CoV- 2), a simple calculation suggests that the number of deaths could be close to one million.

A model from Fundan University (Shanghai) arrived at a figure of 1.55 million. At this point, there is little China can do to prevent a significant number of cases and deaths.

And again: the Chinese population is little or badly vaccinated as a whole, and has been relatively spared by previous waves due to the very strict “zero Covid” policy. However, the lesser virulence of Omicron is essentially due... to vaccination and previous infections. Evidenced by the case of Hong Kong, decimated by Omicron last winter.

What about vaccine immunity ?

Indeed, vaccination rates in China are comparable to those in Western countries. But they show an unusual characteristic: they decrease with age.

While they are most at risk of severe forms of Covid, the elderly are thus the least vaccinated demographic group with only 40% of people over 80 having received three doses.

Moreover, the effectiveness of vaccines against transmission has been severely tested, especially since Omicron began spreading in late 2021.

Since China has used so-called “inactivated” vaccines produced by the companies Sinovac and Sinopharm, these vaccines are generally safe, but tend to elicit weaker immune responses than new technologies – such as those used in mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) or adenoviral vector (AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson).

The performance of Chinese vaccines has thus been mixed. Admittedly, the globally dominant Omicron variant (via its many sub-variants) is associated with significantly lower disease severity and mortality rates than the Delta variant it replaced…

But it remains a major threat to populations with low immunity, especially the elderly. At the start of 2022, Hong Kong faced similar problems to mainland China, with low prior exposure of its population to the virus.

Hong Kong even had even lower vaccination rates for the elderly than China currently has, but a stronger healthcare system. Yet the Omicron wave that swept through the megalopolis in March 2022 resulted in more cumulative deaths per million people in a matter of days than many countries have seen during the entire pandemic…

Another risk, precisely: the appearance of new variants, due to the intense viral circulation in the Middle Kingdom.

However, for the former adviser to Barack Obama, Ryan Hass, China “will persist in its refusal” to import foreign RNA vaccines. According to him, “adopting Western vaccines would be tantamount to questioning the discourse they have held all this time. All of this is going to cause deaths that could have been avoided.”

The true toll of Covid-19 in China will probably never be known, but it will be heavy.

At the international level, the concern relates to the risk of "importation" of cases - even if, for the moment, no unknown variant seems to have emerged in China.

SCANDAL AROUND JOE BIDEN

DISCOVERY OF CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS

AT HIS HOME

Following the discovery of a dozen documents of this type in a "small locked cupboard" of the Penn Biden Center, the lawyers of the American president reviewed all his files and found "a small number of documents additional documents dating from the Obama-Biden administration and classified as confidential,” which were in the garage of his Delaware residence and an adjoining room, according to a White House statement.

It is not wrong that the opposition denounces a “two-speed justice”, compared to the investigation against Donald Trump. In the United States, does not a 1978 law oblige American presidents and vice-presidents to transmit all their e-mails, letters and other working documents to the National Archives?

The most embarrassing revelations for the Democratic president, the authorities have been investigating for months the management by his Republican predecessor Donald Trump of his own presidential archives. The FBI had indeed seized thousands of documents, including a hundred classified defense secrets, in the private club of Mar-a-Lago, Florida, where the ex-president retired.

A very embarrassing affair, while the Democratic president boasts of his integrity in the face of the investigation which targets Donald Trump, also under investigation for having refused to return thousands of confidential documents.

The embarrassment was also palpable on Thursday among the Democrats and this did not escape the opposition, which hastened to denounce a two-speed justice. "This is a new misstep by the Biden administration which (…) treats President Trump one way and President Biden another," said Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy, for whom "Congress must investigate this matter."

"Classified documents next to your Corvette, but what did you have in mind?" a journalist from the popular conservative channel Fox News asked Joe Biden defiantly. The president replied that he would speak “soon, God willing” on the subject. “Besides, my Corvette is in a locked garage. (…) It's not like she's on the street, ”added the 80-year-old Democrat, referring to his favorite car, a bottle green convertible from the 1960s.

US Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed an independent prosecutor to investigate the documents. “I have signed a document appointing Robert Hur as a special prosecutor” which “authorizes him to investigate any person or entity who may have violated the law” in this case, he said during a short speech.

Joe Biden claimed to "cooperate fully" with American justice. For his part, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, immediately called on Congress to investigate.

INTENSIFICATION OF RUSSIAN MISSILE STRIKES AGAINST UKRAINE

OPERATIONS THAT TAKE PLACE

"EXACTLY AS EXPECTED" ACCORDING TO PUTIN

kyiv and other regions in the south, north and east of the country were also the target on Saturday morning of new Russian missile fire targeting essential infrastructure, including electricity, according to Ukrainian officials.

Several explosions have indeed sounded in the morning in Kyiv, journalists have found, Ukrainian officials claiming that strikes had targeted key infrastructure in the capital. "A missile attack on critical infrastructure" is underway in Kyiv, Ukrainian presidential adviser Kyrylo Tymoshenko said on Telegram in the morning debate, while city mayor Vitali Klitschko reported explosions in the Dniprovskiy district , without reporting any injuries but calling on the inhabitants to "stay in the shelters".

Uncertain situation in Soledar

The fighting in and around Soledar has been raging for several months, but its intensity has increased sharply in recent days. On the front, the small town of Soledar, in eastern Ukraine, which Moscow claims to have taken, is still "under Ukrainian control", assured Saturday the governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko. Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that the "liberation" of this city took place "on January 12 in the evening". The Russian army had also praised the "courageous actions" of the fighters of the Wagner mercenary group, whose men led "the direct assault against the residential areas of Soledar". Its capture by the forces of Moscow would constitute a notable victory for Russia, after the series of

“Today, the enemy again fired against energy installations,” said operator Ukrenergo, adding that it was working to “eliminate the consequences” of these strikes.

Energy production facilities affected

"Emergency cuts have been decided in most regions," Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galouchchenko announced on Saturday evening. Russian strikes hit the country's energy production facilities, notably in the regions of Kharkiv, Lviv, Ivano- Frankivsk, Zaporijjia, Vinnytsia and Kiev.

The operator Ukrenergo, for its part, said it was working to "eliminate the consequences" of this "twelfth massive missile attack on the energy sector in Ukraine".

“A positive dynamic” according to Putin

While the communication battle is in full swing, the Russian president, in an interview this Sunday, was questioned on the tarmac of an airport, near the presidential plane. He was answering the question of a journalist from the Rossia-1 channel asking him about the "news coming from Soledar", which the Russian army said on Friday that it had conquered. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he found "positive dynamics" in the military operation his country is pursuing in Ukraine and the Donbass.

“I hope that our fighters will still delight us more than once with their military results,” Putin also said in his interview. The Russian leader added that the operation is going “exactly as planned” during an interview with the Rossiya-1 television channel. Raising conscription from 27 to 30 years in Russia would increase the number of Russian forces by 30%.

In addition to have a superior firepower, according to British intelligence, Russia plans to raise the age of conscription from 27 to 30 years in the spring. According to the chairman of the Duma, Kartapolov, this would allow a 30% increase in the number of Russian forces. Last year, President Putin said he supported such a move. In addition Vladimir Putin, this Wednesday, announced that the chief of staff of the Russian army Valéri Guerassimov was resuming military operations in Ukraine, only three months after the appointment of Sergei Surovikin to this post.

The experts converge to see in this decision the sign of an acceleration of the Russian operation. An offensive has been discussed for several months and the possibility of a new mobilization is not excluded, after a first in September of some 300,000 men.

Whether or not to supply tanks to Ukraine

To face the Russian armada, kyiv has again called on its Western allies to provide it with more weapons and high-performance military equipment.

In response, the United Kingdom announced that it wanted to supply Ukraine with Challenger 2 tanks, the first Western-made heavy armored vehicles. The British announcement - "a good signal" according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky - comes after Poland said it was ready on Wednesday to deliver 14 Leopard 2 heavy tanks, which requires Berlin's approval, as part of an international coalition. Their number is not specified, but the United Kingdom thus becomes the first country to commit to providing this type of battle tank to help Ukraine against Russian forces. kyiv had already received Soviet-designed heavy tanks from its allies, but none yet of Western manufacture.

Washington and London, for their part, announced last week the dispatch of lighter infantry or reconnaissance tanks.

The German government for its part announced in early January that it would supply Ukraine with around 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles before the end of the first quarter to fight Russian forces, but it still seems reluctant to deliver heavy tanks. , even if the Minister of the Economy, Robert Habeck, said last weekend "not to exclude" this option. On the other hand, the German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall could not supply Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine before 2024 at the earliest, the time to proceed with their repair, if the government in Berlin decided to deliver them to kyiv. warns the boss of the group in the columns of the Bild.

Turkey calls for ' localized ceasefires '

As the fighting rages, Turkey, diplomatically, wants to promote "localized ceasefires" in Ukraine because of hope for a more comprehensive peace agreement at this stage, said Saturday Ibrahim Kalin, close adviser of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Neither Russia nor Ukraine "is in a position to win militarily", he also considered, saying he was convinced "that in the end, they will have to negotiate to reach an acceptable outcome" for the two parts

But the day before the UN Security Council, meeting again to discuss the situation in Ukraine, noted that there was, according to the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, “no sign of an end to the fighting”.

Still, it would be wise to continue negotiations...even as the fighting continues to kill civilians.

BRAD PITT AT THE BABYLON PREMIERE

The opportunity to pose with the film crew on the red carpet of the BFI IMAX cinema in Waterloo.

Her co-star Margot Robbie, dressed in a flamboyant loose dress, the interpreter of Barbie was sublime, and willingly lent herself to the game of the photocall. Thus confirming her beautiful complicity with Brad Pitt, to whom she had already given the reply in “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”.

Brad Pitt, star of the Goldens

He also attracted all eyes at the 80th Golden Globes ceremony, held Tuesday night in Los Angeles.

At his ease, seated next to actress Margot Robbie, his partner in his new film "Babylon", Brad Pitt obviously had a good evening.

The 59-year-old actor has indeed found Quentin Tarantino, who had directed him in “Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood” in 2019, but also Colin Farrell, Jean Smart or Julia Garner.

It was with a broad smile that he congratulated the young Austin Butler, crowned Best actor in a drama for his role in the musical biopic “Elvis”. On the other hand, it is alone, without his new companion Ines de Ramon, that he took advantage of the ceremony…

Brad Pitt was up for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "Babylon." In this film directed by Damien Chazelle, he plays the character of Jack Conrad in a Los Angeles of the 1920s, in full creation of Hollywood.

The actor finally bowed to Ke Huy Quan, rewarded for his performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”.

Brad Pitt's last appearance at the Golden Globes was in 2020, when he walked away with the Best Supporting Actor award for "Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood."

His very first prize dated before that from 1996, when he was awarded for the film "12 Monkeys".

BRAD PITT AND INES RAMON HIS NEW GIRLFRIEND CELEBRATE HE'S 59 YEARS

Brad Pitt appeared on the arm of his new companion, this Sunday, December 18, 2022, to blow out his 59 candles.

Hazelnut-colored eyes and luscious lips, Ines de Ramon is director of the jewelry brand Anita Ko Jewelry.

She 32-year-old seems to have fallen in love with the Fight Club star, divorced from Angelina Jolie since 2016.

"They've been dating for a few months," People clarifies. On November 13, the couple was photographed for the first time alongside Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, at a Bono concert at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles.

More than a month later, the two lovebirds make their appearance again getting out of a car, with a relaxed Brad Pitt, wearing a gray top that matches his pants. Beside her, Ines de Ramon donned a beige coat lined with white fur, her hair falling past her shoulders.

The encounter

Back to the beginning of the story. A few months earlier, a source from People revealed that the American actor had "fallen" for the young Ines de Ramon, separated since the beginning of the year from her husband Paul Wesley, star of Vampire Diaries.

Last Thursday, the young woman accompanied her new companion to the evening following the preview of the film Babylon. Brad Pitt would "clearly be very interested in her, given he brought her to her premiere," a fashion industry source close to Ines de Ramon said.

She continued, "Ines said Brad is very nice and they will spend New Year's Eve together."

"It's not serious yet, but he's comfortable and they're having fun together," the source said. Brad Pitt and Ines de Ramon are having a great time together, and their romance isn't official yet.

Brad Pitt, however, seems to have drawn a cross on Emily Ratajkowski, with whom he was seen a few months ago.

THE IMPORTANCE OF SEX EDUCATION

And what do TV shows and teenage magazines say ?

That boys have sexual needs to satisfy in one way or another.

And who explains to a girl otherwise ?

Nobody told me otherwise. The first back and forth are painful and then it passes I wanted to continue.

For women's magazines, movies, TV, it's the norm

We do not always want at the same time. So one forces himself a little, to please the other until it becomes a game, a challenge if we love each other...

We keep talking about feminism.

What is consent really ?

It is not normal to have pain the first time(s). You have to take your time, listen to yourself.

Do not do it "to please" out of normality.

But love is to desire!

Everything could push boys to be rapists if we take literally the stories of tales, cartoons, women's magazines. And let's not talk about reality TV, the internet, young people our age, our parents.

THE GOLDEN GLOBE 2023

A sort of antechamber to the Oscars which will take place on March 12, 2023, the Golden Globes celebrate the best of cinema and television every year. The 80th edition was held last night in Los Angeles and has just delivered its verdict.

On the film side, The Fabelmans by Steven Spielberg and The Banshees by Inisherin stand out as big winners, when Elvis was also rewarded.

With some of the awards season's most beloved films up for grabs, the 2023 Golden Globes were the prime opportunity for the stars and directors of Everything Everywhere All at Once, Top Gun: Maverick, Tár, and more. , to be celebrated in front of a live televised audience.

The Fabelmans and The Banshees of Inisherin won top film awards, while Abbott Elementary, The White Lotus and House of the Dragon reigned on TV.

Here is the full list of Golden Globe winners.

Best Film – Drama

The Fabelmans – WINNER

Avatar: The Way of the Water

Elvis

Tar

Top Gun: Maverick

Best Film – Musical or Comedy

The Banshees of Inisherin – WINNER

babylon

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Glass Onion: a story at loggerheads

Without Filter

Best Director – Film

Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans) – WINNER

James Cameron (Avatar: The Waterway)

Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Baz Luhrmann (Elvis)

Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Best Screenplay – Film

The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh – WINNER

Tar – Todd Field

Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

Women Talking – Sarah Polley

The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Austin Butler (Elvis) – WINNER

Brendan Fraser (The Whale)

Hugh Jackman (The Son)

Bill Nighy (Living)

Jeremy Pope (The Inspection)

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

Cate Blanchett (Tár) – WINNER

Olivia Colman (Empire of Light)

Viola Davis (The Woman King)

Ana de Armas (Blonde)

Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) – WINNER

Lesley Manville (A Dress for Mrs. Harris)

Margot Robbie (Babylon)

Anya Taylor-Joy (The Menu)

Emma Thompson (My dates with Leo)

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin) – WINNER

Diego Calva (Babylon)

Daniel Craig (Glass Onion: A Tale at Daggers Drawn)

Adam Driver (White Noise)

Ralph Fiennes (The Menu)

Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once) – WINNER

Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Brad Pitt (Babylon)

Eddie Redmayne (Murders Without Prescription)

Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture

Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) – WINNER

Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Dolly De Leon (No filter)

Carey Mulligan (She Said)

Best Music – Film

Babylon – Justin Hurwitz – WINNER

The Banshees of Inisherin – Carter Burwell

Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro (Netflix) – Alexandre Desplat

Women Talking – Hildur Guðnadóttir

The Fabelmans – John Williams

Best Foreign Language Film

Argentina, 1985 (Prime Video, Argentina) – WINNER

In the West, nothing new (Netflix, Germany)

Close (Belgium)

Decision to Leave (South Korea)

RRR (India)

Best Song – Movie

Naatu Naatu (RRR) – Kala Bhairava, MM Keeravani, Rahul Sipligunj – WINNER

Carolina (Where the Crawfish Sing) – Taylor Swift

Ciao Papa (Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro, Netflix) – Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro

Hold My Hand (Top Gun: Maverick) – Lady Gaga, BloodPop, Benjamin Rice

Lift Me Up (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) – Tems, Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler

Best Animated Film

Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro (Netflix) – WINNER

Inu-Oh

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

Puss in Boots 2: The Last Quest

Red alert

CHOCOLATE AND PRALINE FONDANT

BY CYRIL LIGNAC

A delicious, simple recipe that can be prepared in part in advance.

Cyril Lignac unveiled his recipe for chocolate fondant with a praline,

As with any good runny or moist chocolate cake, start by melting chocolate in butter in a double boiler.

Then add flour and sugar.

The chef warns against the idea of ​​incorporating the eggs directly into the chocolate. This will whiten it. We would then lose the visual impact of a beautiful dark chocolate.

Add the eggs last before mixing. Then pour your dough into small individual molds and reserve in the refrigerator, a few hours or all night according to your needs.

Then bake at 190°C for 7 or 8 minutes just before serving.

Tasty on its own, the recipe takes on another dimension when you add praline

Cyril Lignac's tips

To make it, roast hazelnuts in the oven. Make a simple sugar caramel then add the hazelnuts and a little fleur de sel. Place everything on a sheet of parchment or silicone paper and let cool. Then put your preparation in a blender and mix.

Your hazelnut caramel will first be reduced to powder. Continue until you get the consistency of praline. All you have to do is add it to your still hot chocolate cakes using a spoon.

Serve and enjoy.

HOW TO BEST MANAGE YOUR BREAKUP ?

Sometimes we leave, and sometimes we are left.

How do you end a long-lasting exclusive relationship ?

Do not imagine that it is easy and comfortable even if it is on your own initiative that you break up for other adventures.

Here is the reason for this little piece of writing :

realize that leaving can be as difficult as being left.

Why ?

1° This approach requires first of all courage because how to really explain to the other our departure without hurting him too much. It's not obvious you understand it well unless you tell him the worst nonsense like you have no ambition, you're a phew in the end...

2° You have to work a lot on yourself so as not to contact your ex again asking him to come back when you want something else elsewhere.

3 ° And in addition to wanting to get back in touch, it's risky because yes your relationship can resume but inevitably you will think back to what made you leave during the days of yelling. Always difficult to pick up the pieces in a couple, you must be aware of it.

4° But in the hard times post-breakup, you will have doubts because who to confide in now, who to ask for advice. You will be alone with your problems... and no one will take you in their arms to comfort you.

5° If you have lived for months in a relationship with a person, you will necessarily have lots of memories with him.

Everything reminds us of each other once we have ended our story.

A song, a restaurant, a street name...

So expect to see something spring up anywhere, in your ears, your eyes or under your feet that will remind you of your ex.

6° Getting dumped seems to be more difficult than the opposite. And yet breaking up of your own free will without a common agreement makes you bear a heavy responsibility because you know full well that you will make the other person suffer who did not expect it!

7° It takes time to turn the page and tell yourself that if you made this decision it is not without reasons. And our successive loves build us so that we can know what we really want.

DESPITE THE MEDIA STORM FROM A HARRY

PRINCE WILLIAM AND KATE BACK

It has now been several days since the couple stepped out for an official appearance.

In the midst of a media storm following the release of Prince Harry's autobiography, the Cambridges offered smiles and salutes to the crowd.

For their big comeback, William and Kate have chosen Liverpool where they arrived at the end of the morning at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital to meet young people committed to mental health.

For the occasion, the couple chose coordinated looks in navy and dark green tones.

The couple therefore reappears in the midst of a media storm, while Prince Harry's memoirs ("The Substitute" at Fayard) arrived in bookstores two days ago.

Asked about this when they arrived in Liverpool, the Cambridges evaded the arrests of journalists.

Smiling, they showed no sign of discontent, despite the Duke of Sussex's reproaches and accusations against them.

Sad family stories !

DEATH OF SINGER LISA MARIE PRESLEY

DAUGHTER OF THE ROCK'N'ROLL LEGEND

ELVIS PRESLEY

The daughter of the "King" was rushed to hospital on Thursday morning, where she was placed in an artificial coma and on life support, after a cardiac arrest, according to the people site TMZ, which relied on anonymous sources. Lisa Marie Presley was "unconscious" when her housekeeper discovered her at her home in the morning in Calabasas, an affluent suburb of Los Angeles, according to the site.

Her ex-husband Danny Keough, who also lives on the property, performed CPR until paramedics arrived and took her to hospital. "She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I know," her mother Priscilla Presley said in a separate statement to People, thanking fans for their "love and prayers."

The announcement of the death of Lisa Marie Presley immediately provoked a wave of saddened reactions from fans and personalities who were friends of the singer. “Our hearts are broken by the sudden and shocking passing of Lisa Marie Presley tonight,” wrote Tom Hanks, actor of the recently released biopic “Elvis”, and his wife Rita Wilson on Instagram. "Lisa my little darling, I'm so sorry. I will miss you but I know I will see you again, ”published John Travolta on the same social network.

"Proud"

The singer was last seen in public on Tuesday, when she attended the Golden Globes ceremony with her mother, where actor Austin Butler received an award for his role in the biopic dedicated to his father, " Elvis".

Austin Butler, whose larger-than-life incarnation of the rock'n'roll legend has been widely acclaimed, had a word with the two women during his onstage speech. "Thank you for opening your hearts, your memories, your home to me. Lisa Marie and Priscilla, I love you forever," he said.

Lisa Marie Presley, who said she was "overwhelmed" and "overwhelmed with gratitude", had paid tribute to the film. "I am so proud, and I know my father would have been proud." Very close to her father, who had named his private jet "The Lisa Marie" in her honor, she was only 9 years old when he is dead.

While she followed in his footsteps, releasing three albums during her career, she never achieved the immense success of her father, one of the most famous artists of all time.

Grief

Elvis' only child, Lisa Marie Presley previously controlled Elvis Presley Enterprises, but sold most of its shares to a private equity firm in 2005.

She had, however, retained control of Graceland, the property owned by her father in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was found unconscious in August 1977, before being taken to hospital and his death attributed to a heart attack. Elvis' toxicology reports then revealed elevated drug levels in the rock 'n' roll legend's body.

Lisa Marie Presley also had to fight an addiction to opiates and painkillers, as she revealed in 2019 in a preface to a book on the outbreak of overdoses that has hit the United States for 20 years now.

" I am not perfect. My father was not perfect, no one is perfect,” she wrote. She notably gave birth to actress Riley Keough, who starred in "Mad Max: Fury Road", and had to mourn a son, Benjamin Keough, who killed himself in July 2020, according to sources. American media.

Besides Danny Keough, whom she divorced in 1994, she was also married to Nicolas Cage, Michael Jackson and songwriter Michael Lockwood.

THE ATTACK ON PLACES OF POWER OR

THE HOLD OF BOLSONARISM IN

BRAZILIAN SOCIETY

Facts

The area near the Three Powers Square, where the Presidential Palace of Planalto, the Supreme Court and the Congress meet, had been cordoned off by the authorities, but the Bolsonarists managed to break the security cordons. The police, who seemed completely overwhelmed, tried, in vain, to repel them with tear gas and stun grenades.

After several hours of chaos, security forces finally regained control of the invaded buildings and arrested more than 200 people, according to Justice and Security Minister Flavio Dino.

The message from the bolsonarists seems clear: they do not intend to give up, despite his investiture last week.

These activists have never recognized the victory - by a short head - of Lula against Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential election of October. This rampage comes a week after the inauguration of the new Brazilian president and this, in the absence of his predecessor: the far-right leader left Brazil at the end of the year to join the United States, thus fleeing trouble. judicial.

President Lula's reaction

The Brazilian president very quickly announced on Sunday a “federal intervention” – that is to say the takeover at the level of the Brazilian state of the command of the security forces – to regain control of the security of the capital.

The day after this invasion "unprecedented in the history of Brazil", Lula met with the presidents of the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies and the Supreme Court at the Presidential Palace of Planalto. The interview concluded with a joint statement calling for "the defense of democracy". Condemning an intervention carried out by "fascist vandals", he promised, about those responsible, "to find them all", assuring that they would be "punished"

The icon of the Brazilian left estimated Sunday that his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro had "encouraged" the "fascist vandals" to carry out this action.

Jair Bolsonaro reacted from Florida

From the United States, Jair Bolsonaro has, in a series of tweets, condemned “the depredations and invasions of public buildings”. But he also "rejected the accusations, without proof" of his successor that he had encouraged the violence.

Several of his allies, however, dissociated themselves from the violence, including Valdemar Costa Neto, president of the PL, Bolsonaro's party, who regretted "a sad day for the Brazilian nation". The governor of the Federal District of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, another ally of Jair Bolsonaro, even apologized to President Lula in a video. He called those responsible for the depredations of public buildings "real vandals" and "real terrorists".

Unanimous condemnation from the international community

The Brazilian president can count on the support of the international community. The international community has massively condemned the attack on these symbols of Brazilian political life. US, Canadian and Mexican leaders condemned the attacks and assured Lula of their support, in a joint statement Monday. Argentine Pope Francis also denounced the violence. Joe Biden called the violence of the demonstrators "scandalous". “Using violence to attack democratic institutions is always unacceptable,” also tweeted its Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador for his part denounced “the conservative coup attempt in Brazil”.

The President of the European Council Charles Michel expressed on Twitter his "absolute condemnation" of this assault and his "total support for President Lula da Silva, democratically elected by millions of Brazilians after fair and free elections".

The lasting hold of Bolsonarism on Brazilian society

But it should be remembered that Lula only won the second round of the presidential election in Brazil by a narrow margin against incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, at the end of a campaign marred by unrest until last day. And this extremely tense campaign will have confirmed the lasting hold of Bolsonarism on Brazilian society.

Bolsonarism is not dead as shown by researchers Bruno Ronchi (University of Rennes) and Lucas Camargo Gomes (Federal University of Paraná in Brazil) in an article published in TheConversation “ What future for Bolsonarism? » of which here are the analyses.

Indeed, despite the resurgence of food insecurity, the almost 700,000 deaths caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the increase in deforestation, Jair Bolsonaro and his government have maintained strong popularity with the public throughout his mandate. an important part of the population. The last Datafolha poll organized before the election indicated that 38% of Brazilians considered the government "good" or "very good", while 22% considered it "average" and 39% "bad" or "very bad". where 48% of voters have a household income of two minimum wages or less, the support of the popular electorate remains fundamental to maintaining Bolsonaro's electoral potential.

In fact, adherence to the discourse of Bolsonarism is still widespread in the country, which sees the leader and his supporters as soldiers in the fight against “the system”. This “system” includes, among others, higher education institutions, judicial institutions, national and international NGOs, and even the United Nations.

In addition, Bolsonarist discourse insists on the need to moralize Brazilian society. This moralization revives the memory of the corruption scandals that erupted during the governments of the Workers' Party and exalts traditional values ​​- as evidenced by the oft-repeated Bolsonarist slogan, "God, fatherland and family".

Bolsonaro then appears as the only one who can fight against these forces and "heal" Brazil by ridding it of a deeply corrupt system .

In addition, it is important to highlight the economic and moral support provided to Bolsonaro by certain sectors, such as part of the Evangelical Churches (in particular Pentecostals), agribusiness, the business world, the police and the government. 'army.

The attitude of some members of the security forces during the assault has also questioned observers. Haven't some been complacent towards the demonstrators? The metal barriers protecting the modernist buildings with large bay windows were easily broken down by the Bolsonarist militants who met practically no resistance from the police. Police officers even cleared the way for the demonstrators, whom they escorted to the Place des Trois-Pouvoirs. It is that the armed forces in the very broad sense are also divided and are in a conflict of loyalty with regard to the legitimation of the central power.

"Bolsonorisation of the State apparatus"?

The body of the military police is infiltrated by the Bolsonarists or in any case very sensitive to the theses of the extreme right: according to a recent study by the Brazilian Forum of Public Security, 27% of the members of this body interact on social networks with Jair Bolsonaro's most radical activists. This body is the largest police force in the country: approximately 500,000 men with one military police per state. In this case, during these assaults on the institutions, it was therefore the military police of the state of Brasilia, the capital, whose governor and head of public security, suspected of sympathy with the insurgents, were relieved of their duties last night. The name "military police" is misleading: it is really a police force, responsible for maintaining order.

The army, on the other hand, is a federal body and so far in any case, it presents a legalistic face and respectful of democratic institutions; the barracks remained calm, despite the calls from the foot of Bolsonarist militants who demand a "military intervention". Moreover, by deciding to place Brasilia under federal control, President Lula has de facto decided to trust the army, rather than the military police.

How can Lula govern?

Certainly Lula has already started the sweep. Brasilia's police chief, Anderson Torres, a Bolsonarian former justice minister, was removed from his post. As of Sunday evening, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes suspended for 90 days the governor of the district of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, who had appointed Torres. But if Lula has won the presidential election, he must deal with a Congress where the support of the ex-president is numerous and the federated states are mainly won over to Bolsonaro.

Lula will therefore have to work to regain control of the “state apparatus” (police, armies), infused with Bolsonarist ideas, states Maud Chirio, lecturer, specialist in the history of the Brazilian military dictatorship. . "Lula is faced with a bolsonarization of the state apparatus which can prevent him from governing", analyzes the researcher.

The long term effects

But given the Bolsonarist entrenchment in Brazilian society, it is important to consider the short and long-term effects it produces on this young democracy, according to the two researchers Bruno Ronchi and Lucas Camargo Gomes. The incessant attacks directed at the other powers, in particular the Supreme Court, accentuate the distrust of the institutions whose mission is to safeguard the rule of law. Anchored in the 1988 Constitution, the promulgation of which seals the end of the military dictatorship, this institutional framework showed signs of corrosion long before Bolsonaro came to power.

Faced with the succession of crises and reconfigurations that have occurred over the past decade, marked by the dismissal of Dilma Rousseff in 2016, as well as numerous corruption scandals, widespread discontent is becoming more and more palpable. Bolsonarism then appears as the expression of antipolitics, starting from the idea that all those who submit to the system are corrupt...

“The scenarios that are emerging for the future of Brazilian democracy do not suggest a “return to democratic normality” that is easy to operate. The phenomenon currently observed is characterized much more by the destructuring of a historically situated institutional framework which was already showing its limits. “, conclude the researchers.

"Even if Lula's victory were accepted by Bolsonaro and his supporters, it would take substantive work by the new government to readapt to new methods of political action, in the face of a Bolsonarist opposition that will undoubtedly be fierce and determined to return to power as soon as possible. »

RISK OF CONGRESSIONAL PARALYSIS WITH 

KEVIN MCCARTHY FINALLY ELECTED "SPEAKER"

The process lasted several days, it took fifteen rounds due to the blocking of elected Trumpists.

Kevin McCarthy was elected by 216 votes against 212 for the Democratic representative of New York Hakeem Jeffries.

"I'm glad it's over," the new Speaker of the House said after the 15th vote.

At the age of 57, this man with an impeccable gray lock reached the prestigious position of "speaker" which he had been aiming for for years. But the interminable duration of his election, a real epic which required 15 laps, weakens him. in Congress for the next two years

A “speaker” challenged by pro-trumps

It took no less than fifteen ballots and four days of unprecedented chaos for Republican Kevin McCarthy to be elected, Saturday, "speaker" of the House of Representatives.

The fault of around twenty elected Trumpists, members of the ultra-conservative group “Freedom Caucus”, who took advantage of the very thin Republican majority won in the mid-term elections of November 8 to come and play spoilsports. Judging Kevin McCarthy too moderate and too close to the "establishment" of Washington, they blocked his election until obtaining important concessions.

These Republicans would thus have obtained a simplified procedure for ejecting the “speaker” from the Chamber and negotiating important positions in the various parliamentary committees. Concessions that risk reducing his power as Speaker of the House to almost nothing and strengthening the influence of the same radicals who humiliated him.

So what should we expect from this House, whose Republican majority is divided, facing a Senate with a majority, he, a Democrat?

A Republican with fluctuating positions

Leader of the Republican group in the House since 2014, Kevin McCarthy started from a classic Republican position, focused on the defense of the market and individual success, to finally endorse the shift to the right of his political training on immigration, crime or against the rights of LBGT people.

After the election of Joe Biden, contested by the Trump camp, he distinguished himself by his opportunism. A supporter of the Republican billionaire in the 2015 primaries, Kevin McCarthy initially espoused the thesis of a “stolen” election. But after the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he quickly declared that Donald Trump "bears responsibility" for the violence committed by his supporters. Barely a week later, he was photographed all smiles alongside the former president in the gilded salons of Mar-a-Lago, the real estate mogul's Florida residence, praising the virtues of a "movement United Conservative”.

It is in the name of this unity that Kevin McCarthy has made a rapprochement with the faithful lieutenants of Donald Trump in Congress. But other supporters of the former president were unconvinced, persisting in challenging him even after Donald Trump called on them to vote for him. He “sold out to everyone for decades”, thus justified the rebellious Matt Gaetz, one of the six Republicans who remained opposed to Kevin McCarthy until the end.

The blockage orchestrated by a group of Trumpists is "humiliating", ultimately judges political scientist Larry Sabatoque Mr. McCarthy is the weakest speaker ever elected since the Civil War.

The beginning of his ordeal?

For many analysts, his election is perhaps only the beginning of his ordeal.

“To assume the position of Speaker of the House with the current culture of the Republican Party is almost political suicide,” commented Mark Martinez, political scientist at California State University in Bakersfield, this agricultural and oil city which saw the birth of Kevin McCarthy 57 years ago.

Professor Martinez's judgment of the rebels of the Republican group is no harsher than that of some of Kevin McCarthy's allies.

"We can't let the terrorists win," Texas Republican Representative Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy Seal who lost an eye in Afghanistan, said earlier this week.

His Republican colleague from Nebraska Don Bacon, another veteran, had for his part qualified as “Taliban” the recalcitrant Republicans, whose number rose to 20 after the second ballot.

Sword of Damocles with concessions and threat of paralysis

“Clearly he gifted the sun, moon and stars to each of these individuals,” said Norm Ornstein, a congressional scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based conservative think tank. “And I suspect he has assured some of the holdouts that they will not face serious ethical investigation for trying to overthrow the government in 2020.”

Under Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan will chair the important House Judiciary Committee. In particular, he intends to investigate the FBI and the Department of Justice.

Another major concession by Kevin McCarthy will secure more seats for the Freedom Caucus on the House Rules Committee. As its name suggests, this committee dictates the rules by which bills are introduced in the House.

“We will have the weakest Speaker of the House in modern history,” argued Norm Ornstein. Even without McCarthy's extremely important concessions, the most radical of its members would have had all the power because of the narrowness of the Republican majority. And they are ready to exercise these powers. »

We're going to have a chaotic House and real threats of state paralysis and default, says Norm Ornstein, congressional scholar with the American Enterprise Institute

“Unless the Republicans – not the most moderate, but the least radical – manage to agree with the Democrats on a certain number of texts of common sense measures, for example on the debt ceiling.

And that, it can have the function, finally, all things considered, of depolarizing the Chamber, ”concludes Lauric Henneton.

ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS

PUTIN ALONE IN A KEMLIN CHURCH

In previous years, Vladimir Putin used to attend religious services for Orthodox Christmas in Russian provinces or on the outskirts of Moscow.

In a message broadcast on Saturday January 7, 2023 by the Kremlin, the Russian President sent his congratulations to Orthodox Christians, indicating that this day inspires “good deeds and aspirations”.

He also said to pray for the Orthodox Church.

Twelve percent of Christians around the world are also preparing to celebrate the birth of Christ on January 7. Indeed, 260 million Orthodox Christians, whether they live in Russia or Greece where they are the majority, or in communities in Ethiopia and Egypt in particular, are preparing to celebrate their own Christmas.

Marked by pious vigils and traditional feasts, this particular version of Christmas has its origins in the decision taken several centuries ago by the Orthodox authorities to separate from the Catholic Church and to adopt a calendar different from that used by the majority of humans today.

Commemoration of the Birth of Jesus Christ or the Great Eastern Schism

Disagreements over when to officially commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ date back to 325 CE. On this date, a group of Christian bishops convened the first ecumenical council of Christianity in order to decide on certain questions of religious doctrine.

One of the most important items on the agenda of the First Council of Nicaea was the standardization of the date of the Church's most important feast: Easter. To this end, it was decided to model it on the Julian calendar, a solar calendar that the pontifex maximus Julius Caesar had adopted in 46 BC. J.-C. on the advice of the Egyptian astronomer Sosigene of Alexandria in order to put order in the lunar calendar then in force in Rome.

But Sosigenes' calculations contained an error: they overestimated the length of the solar year by about eleven minutes. Consequently, the calendar year and the solar year became more out of sync as the centuries passed.

The Julian Calendar

In 1582, the dates of the main Christian festivals were so shifted that Pope Gregory XIII had to intervene. He summoned another group of astronomers and proposed a new calendar: the Gregorian calendar.

This solved a number of delicate problems that had accumulated over the years, and the majority of the Christian world adopted it.

But the Orthodox Church did not hear it that way. Since 1054 and the Great Eastern Schism, the result of centuries of growing political and doctrinal tensions, it had formed its own branch of Christianity. Orthodox Christians do not recognize the pope as head of the Church, they reject the concept of purgatory, and they disagree about the origin of the Holy Spirit, among other differences.

To adopt the rectification of trajectory proposed by Pope Gregory, it was necessary to accept that Passover and Easter overlap from time to time, which is proscribed by the holy texts of Orthodox Christianity. The Orthodox Church therefore rejected the Gregorian calendar and continued to follow the Julian calendar.

The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on January 7.

Patriarch Kirill on Thursday called on Moscow and Kyiv to establish a ceasefire in Ukraine on the occasion of the Orthodox Christmas holiday. In the process, Vladimir Putin announced Thursday a unilateral ceasefire for 36 hours.

The influential leader of the Orthodox Church fully supported the offensive of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine decided by Vladimir Putin.

Church organizations “support our soldiers who are taking part in a special military operation,” the Russian president said, using the official Kremlin term for the offensive in Ukraine.

“Such tremendous, multi-faceted, and truly ascetic work deserves the sincerest respect,” he added.

Patriarch Kirill called on believers to support pro-Russian “brothers” during the Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine. Since the start of the offensive in Ukraine on February 24, he has delivered sermons in which he gave his blessing to the Russian troops while castigating the Ukrainian authorities.

In a sermon last year, he said that dying in Ukraine “washes away all sins”.

Recently the Ukrainian Orthodox Church separated from the Patriarchate of Moscow (Russia). On May 27, 2022, at the end of an extraordinary synod, the Church indeed proclaimed its total independence from the Moscow Patriarchate by changing its statutes.

Among the reasons given is the position taken by Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow, encouraging the Russian invasion of Ukraine from February 2022.

KEEP MORALE AND GOOD MOOD

IN WINTER

Lack of brightness, greyness, cold, the daily grind, everything is there to make you tired and perhaps depressed. Good news, we can act on our emotions and boost our morale, even in the heart of winter.

1° Joy in your daily life

What color are the clothes you are wearing today? Forget black and gray for a while to bet on color. We play with color via a blouse, a scarf, a stole. Think about it in the morning when you get dressed and bring out all the most colorful things you have.

Surround yourself with music as often as possible: at work, in the kitchen, in the car, on public transport, in the street… The beneficial effects of music are recognized and even used to help fight against certain diseases.

Don't hesitate to express yourself verbally either: discuss and open up a dialogue with others (children, spouse, colleagues, friends, neighbours, parents, etc.), face to face, on the telephone or on Skype. Express yourself physically too: dance in your living room, improvise alone or with your children.

2° Positive on all subjects

Change your reflexes! All events, no matter how insignificant or important, can be positive. It is often enough to make a little effort to quickly take this reflex which encourages to see the positive side of each action. Being positive is contagious, seeing you take things on the bright side, and even those around you will change their attitude.

3° Physical activity

Move as often as possible. There is nothing like physical activity for morale and for coping with the gloom. If you can't oxygenate yourself skiing, if it gets dark too early, the weather is cold or too rainy for a jog, fall back on indoor sports. Depending on your tastes, you can participate in all kinds of group lessons or set up a personalized solo program.

The important thing is to spend your energy and therefore your calories, gain muscle and firmness, reduce your stress level and improve your morale.

4° High color food

Indulge yourself with fruits and vegetables and color your dishes.

Stop with Savoyard fondues, raclette and other tartiflettes. These dishes are tempting when it's cold but they are heavy and should therefore be reserved for special occasions. Simmer good little dishes rich in vegetables, compose soups and salads made up of fruits and vegetables (walnuts, endives, arugula, avocado, raw ham, slice of tapenade, grapefruit, etc.).

5° Vitamin D on the terrace

This vitamin improves mood. Indeed, vitamin D deficiencies have been linked to an increased risk of depression. At the slightest ray of sunshine, sit on the terrace because this vitamin is synthesized in your skin. And if not, before resorting to food supplements, boost certain foods, especially fatty fish, which are particularly rich in vitamin D… and omega-3.

6° Fish omega-3s

The other great nutrient to focus on because it improves our mood is represented by omega-3s. These polyunsaturated fatty acids are mainly found in oily fish but also in rapeseed oil and in nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, etc.). Be careful, however, increasing your omega-3 intake will not be enough. It is also necessary in parallel to reduce omega-6, provided mainly by industrial food. It is therefore an incentive to cook "home" from basic products!

7° St. John's wort

It is the anti-depression plant par excellence which would even do better than antidepressants. Caution, this plant is contraindicated with certain drugs, including chemotherapy. Talk to your pharmacist or doctor first.

Finally, be careful, in case of "real" depression (continual sad mood and loss of interest that lasts over time), you must consult quickly.

WISHES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM

 EMMANUEL MACRON TO CAREGIVERS

A reorganization of work in the hospital

Denouncing "hyper-rigidity" in the application of 35 hours and a system that "only works with overtime", Emmanuel Macron promised a reorganization of work in the hospital "by June 1" in order to to retain caregivers who leave and make the sector more attractive.

An increase in the number of medical assistants from 4,000 to 10,000

Created in 2018 to assist private doctors in order to allow them to receive more patients, there will be more medical assistants. “We now have nearly 4,000 medical assistants who have already signed a contract, which is a real success. (…) We must reach 10,000 by the end of next year”, announced the Head of State.

The end of fee-for-service pricing

Emmanuel Macron also announced the pure and simple "exit" from the much criticized fee-for-service pricing in hospitals from the next Social Security budget, in favor of financing on "public health objectives", negotiated " on a territorial scale”. “Many of the debates are tense around this famous activity-based pricing. (…) The method of remuneration (…) does not take unscheduled care into account. It poorly takes into account the more complex activities that are going to take time,” he said.

Doctors for all patients with chronic disease

From the end of 2023, the 600,000 people with a chronic illness without a doctor will be offered one. In the absence of a "treating doctor", they will have access to a "treating team" of caregivers from various disciplines.

Beyond the only chronic patients, the Minister of Health, François Braun, had already promised that, among the 6 million patients without a doctor, all those who wish would have one "by the end of the five-year period".

EXPLOSIVE RETURN WITH THE REFORM

RETIREMENTS

Faced with the unions united against raising the retirement age and the reluctance of the right to support retirement at 65, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne reiterated on Franceinfo on Tuesday that this threshold was "not a totem”, before a presentation of the pension reform on January 10. Several points remain to be clarified, in particular the postponement of the retirement age to 64 or 65 or even the French who will benefit from an increase in their pension to reach 1,200 euros.

The postponement of the retirement age to 65, “it is not a totem, I repeat. There are other solutions that will allow us to achieve balance in our pension system by 2030”. This is what Elisabeth Borne said on Tuesday, January 3.

The objective is “a presentation on January 10 then in the Council of Ministers on January 23 followed by debates in the National Assembly from the beginning of February. We would like the text to be voted on before the end of the first quarter for entry into force at the end of the summer, ”she explained.

Another certainty affirmed by the Prime Minister: “We will not go beyond the 43 years of contributions provided for in the Touraine reform to have a full pension”.

Similarly, "the threshold of 67 years we do not touch it", she said. This is the maximum age at which a French person can enjoy his retirement at full rate even when he does not have all his quarters.

Elisabeth Borne, however, was much more evasive regarding the amount of the minimum pension set at 1,200 euros by the pension reform, or 85% of the minimum wage.

Finally, when asked about a possible increase in the amount of employer or employee contributions, Elisabeth Borne assured that it was a "red line not to increase the cost of labor or even reduce it". "Lowering taxes for households and businesses is what has allowed us to create jobs", she assured, recalling that her "priority is full employment".

It will first be the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, to be received at 3:30 p.m. by Élisabeth Borne. He will be followed by François Hommeril, president of the CFE-CGC, Frédéric Souillot, general secretary of FO and François Asselin, president of the CPME. On Wednesday, Cyril Chabanier, president of the CFTC), Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, president of MEDEF, Jean-Christophe Repon, vice-president of the Union of local businesses (U2P) and its general secretary Pierre Burban, Laurent Escure, general secretary of the UNSA, and finally Philippe Martinez, general secretary of the CGT.

“What we want is to preserve our pay-as-you-go system”

If the government insists on the need to carry out "these consultations (which) are useful" to avoid a sling and major strike movements like those which had already paralyzed the country as in December 2019, it also hopes to win the support of the Republicans . Without them, for lack of an absolute majority in the National Assembly, the government would indeed be forced to use again Article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows the adoption of a text without a vote.

By way of justification, Elisabeth Borne reaffirmed, on Tuesday, the need to carry out this reform. “Our pension system is structurally in deficit and it will be over the next few years. What we want to do is preserve our pay-as-you-go system at the heart of our social model. It is a system in which our assets finance the pensions of our retirees”. “However, we are living longer and longer so the number of active people compared to the number of retirees is constantly falling,” she recalled.

However, “there will be no extra money. All efforts will be used to finance pensions”, she assured, affirming that the revenues linked to the pension reform will not be used to finance “anything else”.

COVID INFLUENZA AND BRONCHIOLITIS OUTBREAK

IN FRANCE

And for good reason. For health professionals, back-to-school week is off to a flying start with a “triple epidemic” of Covid, bronchiolitis and influenza.

"In this triple epidemic, we are coming to a slightly calmer phase with regard to Covid and bronchiolitis", he explained to the press: the virus "circulates less" for the coronavirus, while the level of infection remains "very high" for bronchiolitis, "but is improving".

The flu hits the whole territory

On the other hand, for the flu, “there is an explosion of cases, with also serious cases which mean that the intensive care units, in a general way, are saturated”, he underlined.

Last week, the health authorities noted a "continued increase in influenza indicators in all age groups", according to their latest bulletin published on Wednesday. The flu epidemic is currently hitting all mainland and overseas regions. Hospitalizations for flu-like illness have thus increased by 75%.

The bronchiolitis epidemic continued at a high level in mainland France as well as in Guadeloupe, Martinique and Mayotte.

An unwelcome strike

The Minister of Health could only deplore the strike movement of general practitioners at the national level "particularly unwelcome in this period of extreme difficulty for the health system". However, he assured that "(his) door has always remained open and it will remain so to solve the problems".

It is also an opportunity to recall the best practices to adopt:

“Vaccination is still relevant with regard to the flu, as well as wearing a mask and washing hands of course in closed places and where there are many people,” he insisted.

TRIBUTE TO POPE BENEDICT XVI DEAD AT 95

AND FERVENT GUARDIAN OF DOGMA

The body of Joseph Ratzinger had remained so far in the small private chapel of the monastery where he lived since his renunciation in 2013, located in the heart of the Vatican gardens.

The first images of the pope released

The Vatican released on Sunday the first photos of the body of the pope emeritus, lying on a catafalque, dressed in red - the color of papal mourning - and wearing a white miter adorned with a golden braid, a rosary in his hands. A crucifix, a Christmas tree and a nativity scene are visible in the background.

The transfer of his body to St. Peter's Basilica, the largest Catholic church in the world that can accommodate tens of thousands of worshippers, will take place at dawn on Monday.

The basilica, a masterpiece of architecture combining Renaissance and Baroque styles, completed in 1626, is also one of the holiest places in Christianity, since it houses the tomb of Saint Peter, the first bishop of Rome whose popes are the successors. On Sunday, Pope Francis once again paid homage to “beloved” Benedict XVI, “this faithful servant of the Gospel and of the Church”.

Brilliant theologian and fervent guardian of dogma, Benedict XVI, whose renunciation in 2013 took the whole world by surprise, died Saturday morning at the age of 95, the Vatican announced.

“ I am sorry to announce that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, died today at 9:34 a.m., at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, in the Vatican. Other information will be communicated to you as soon as possible” , announced in a press release the director of the press service of the Holy See, Matteo Bruni.

A look back at the life of Pope Benedict XVI

Joseph Ratzinger was born on April 16, 1927 in Marktl, Bavaria, not far from the Austrian border. When he was 14 (in 1941), he was enrolled in the Hitler Youth. At the end of the war, he began his training as a priest. He was ordained in 1951, while continuing his studies in theology.

In 1977, he was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising, then Cardinal.

In 1981, Pope John Paul II appointed him Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It is one of the organisms of the Roman curia, responsible for promoting doctrine and morals in conformity with the faith throughout the Catholic world. In this position, he familiarized himself with the mysteries of the Vatican and rubbed shoulders with the sovereign pontiff very closely. Also, on the death of John Paul II on April 2, 2005, Cardinal Ratzinger was one of the favorites to succeed the deceased pope. He was actually elected on April 19, 2005 during the conclave.

"After the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals elected me, a simple and humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord", he declared after his election, choosing the name of Benedict XVI.

The last pope to have participated in the Second Vatican Council, he nevertheless defended a conservative line at the head of the Church, in particular on abortion, homosexuality and euthanasia.

A pontificate marked by controversy

His death puts an end to the unusual cohabitation of two men in white: the German Joseph Ratzinger, a brilliant theologian not very comfortable with crowds, and the Argentinian Jorge Bergoglio, a Jesuit endowed with an incisive word who wanted put the poor and migrants back at the center of the Church's mission.

The pontificate of Benedict XVI was marked by many crises.

In 2006, Benoit XVI angered the Muslim world. In a speech at the University of Regensburg, the sovereign pontiff quotes a Byzantine emperor for whom Islam is "intrinsically violent". The allusion caused a scandal.

Benoit XVI will apologize later and quickly, the Vatican organizes several visits throughout the Islamic world in order to restore harmonious interreligious relations. Two months later, the sovereign pontiff appears praying alongside the religious leader of Istanbul at the Blue Mosque.

His pontificate was also marked in 2012 by the leak of confidential documents (“Vatileaks”) orchestrated by his butler. The scandal had exposed a Roman Curia (Vatican government) plagued by intrigue and devoid of financial rigor.

After eight years of pontificate marked by multiple crises, Benedict XVI was also caught up in early 2022 by the drama of pedocrime in the Church.

Questioned by a report in Germany on his management of sexual violence when he was Archbishop of Munich, he broke his silence to ask for "pardon" but assured that he had never covered up a child criminal.

His renunciation, announced in Latin on February 11, 2013, was a personal decision linked to his declining strength and not to the pressure of scandals, he assured in a book of confidences published in 2016. By this gesture, unprecedented in six centuries, the first German pope in modern history paved the way for his successors whose strength would come to decline. François, 86 years old and suffering from knee pain, left this possibility “open” himself.

"[...] I ask forgiveness from the bottom of my heart"

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died Saturday at the age of 95, asks "forgiveness" to all those to whom he has "caused harm", in his spiritual testament written in 2006. "To all those to whom I have caused harm from one way or another, I ask forgiveness from the bottom of my heart,” wrote Joseph Ratzinger, pope from 2005 to 2013, in this text dated August 29, 2006 and published Saturday evening by the press service of the Holy See.

"I pray that our land will remain a land of faith, and I beg you, dear compatriots: do not let yourselves be distracted from the faith", also writes the 265th pope, who had surprised the whole world by renouncing his office before retire to a monastery for almost ten years.

“And I want to thank the Lord for my beautiful homeland at the foot of the Alps. Bavaria, in which I have always seen the splendor of the Creator himself shine,” he adds.

“And finally, I thank God for all the beauty I was able to experience at all stages of my journey, but especially in Rome and Italy, which became my second home. »

“Stay firm in the faith ! Don't be confused! “, he urges again.

FRENCH NUCLEAR

ANOTHER DELAY FOR THE FLAMANVILLE EPR

The Flamanville EPR (Manche) will be another six months late before its commissioning, now scheduled for mid-2024, EDF announced this Friday, December 16, 2022, when France is relaunching a program nuclear to ensure its energy transition.

What we know about EPR2 nuclear reactors

The start-up of this reactor, the first of this generation planned on French soil, will thus take place with a total delay of 12 years compared to the initial planning. Two other EPRs are already operating in China and a third in Finland.

These six additional months, which bring the delay to 12 years in relation to the start date initially planned, result in the total cost of the project, under construction since 2007, rising from 12.7 to 13.2 billion euros, i.e. four times the initial budget of 3.3 billion euros.

Necessary revision of “complex” welds

The new delay is due to the necessary revision of treatment procedures for some 150 “complex” welds, within the main secondary circuit of the reactor, explained to the press the director of the Flamanville 3 project, Alain Morvan.

The problem appeared this summer, when it was necessary to carry out the heat treatment of "stress relief" of these welds: the process used revealed a "non-conformity of behavior" of sensitive materials nearby, affected by too high temperatures.

How the nuclear lobby is trying to win the battle of ideas

“We had valve temperature behavior that did not conform to what was expected,” explained Alain Morvan, hence the resumption of “studies to define a method (…) making it possible to guarantee the correct level of achievement of these heat treatments”.

These modifications "have been presented to Bureau Veritas, which analyzes them, and by the end of the year we will have the authorization to resume the so-called complex heat treatments", assured the project director.

Another shutdown planned by the end of 2024

These operations should therefore be able to resume at the start of 2023, but the entire project schedule is upset, with fuel loading now announced for the 1st quarter of 2024. The reactor will send its first electrons when it has reached nearly 25% of its power. , "about three months later", so by mid-2024.

Flamanville EPR: "We can imagine the possibility of sabotage"

The additional 500 million euros announced this Friday are mainly related to the maintenance of personnel and subcontracting companies on site.

In addition to these technical hazards, a shutdown of the reactor is already planned to change, by the end of 2024, the lid of its tank which presents anomalies, recalled Alain Morvan.

However, "the Flamanville EPR has taken new strategic steps in recent months, in its pre-operation phase", welcomes EDF in a press release, citing the resumption of certain welds or the testing of electrical equipment.

Macron announced the order of six or even 14 new EPRs

Since 2007, the site of this reactor, designed to offer increased power and safety, has been accumulating disappointments, whether it be anomalies on the steel of the lid and bottom of the vessel or welding problems.

The latest come as Emmanuel Macron announced the order of six or even 14 new EPRs and that Parliament must decide on France's energy model.

In the absence of the Flamanville EPR next year, France should therefore once again face tensions over its electricity supply during the winter of 2023-24.

The current winter gives a taste of these tensions, with Friday, December 16, 2022, 41 reactors in operation only out of 56.

THE SHAMELESS LIES OF POWER

ON ELECTRICITY PRICES

AND ON NUCLEAR POWER IN FRANCE

The President of the Republic wanted to reassure the French about potential power cuts, while explaining that it was not necessary to panic and that it was only a question for the government of preparing "an extreme case", thus suggesting that the probabilities of large cuts were low.

However, for Philippe Murer, economist, specialist in the environment and energy, “it is almost certain that we will have electricity shortages lasting several days in France. Also, this period will be synonymous with strong restrictions for European populations, according to the economist who recalls that our leaders, by their decisions, sometimes their absence of decisions, are responsible for the current situation: "Our politicians do not know how to solve the problems, because they make communication, they never work in the concrete. »

he argues on the FranceSoir set of April 14, 2022. To Loïk Le Floch-Prigent to add in an interview on Atlantico: “As a former boss of GDF, I can tell you, the government plan in the face of the risk of power cuts is not one".

“Do you realize that we are in the 21st century, in the 6th world power, and that we are being told that we are going to return to the Stone Age because we will no longer have electricity? “, In particular criticized the president of the RN group in the National Assembly, Thursday, December 8, on RTL. And it's not wrong. France is indeed one of the countries most at risk for this winter. However, she is not the only one.

"It's European economic suicide" Philippe Murer

The report of the European Association of Electricity Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-e) published at the beginning of December explains that "the European electricity system is under greater tension than in other years" and this, due to "exceptional circumstances such as the war in Ukraine.

The organization relies in particular on the results of several simulations. Thus, it estimates that in the scenario of “normal demand”, France would indeed be one of the countries most affected.

“Energy curfew” in Italy

Concrètement, le rapport indique que nous pourrions manquer de 20 heures d'électricité pour couvrir tous nos besoins cet hiver. Mais l'Irlande est également ciblée. D'après le rapport de l'ENTSO-e, c'est le 2e pays le plus à risque juste derrière la France puisque les Irlandais pourraient manquer d'un peu plus de 14 heures d'électricité. La Suède et la Finlande pourraient également rencontrer des difficultés, principalement à cause d'une plus faible production issue du nucléaire et des conséquences de la guerre en Ukraine.

Beyond this report, many countries have also prepared more or less severe plans in the event of a lack of electricity. In the United Kingdom, for example, as early as October the main energy supplier warned the British that in the event of a shortage, they could be without power until 3 a.m. on certain weekday evenings, between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. . In Italy too, the government has already prepared minds and anticipated a possible “energy curfew”. Thus, stores could in particular be forced to close an hour earlier.

We are replaying the Covid a bit in this story.

The operation of companies, services or industries will suffer: if consumption drops, this means a drop in production, the shutdown of factories as well as bakers' ovens or butchers' fridges, and this is not good news because it is the decline, the deindustrialization and not only the end of abundance but that of the prosperity of the country which is based on its agricultural and industrial production... a real "European economic suicide"

European carelessness

However, if the energy market has not been hit by such a powerful shock for more than half a century, it is not the war in Ukraine which is at the origin of this danger, but the European carelessness added to French carelessness.

Government propaganda asserts that the war in Ukraine, which multiplies by five the price of gas in Europe, should (according to RTE, an appendix of the executive) lead in France to a rise in the price of electricity by 35%.

But in its generosity, the French government has put in place a “shield” which will limit this increase to 4% in 2022, and 15% in 2023. . In reality, a fivefold increase in the price of European gas has only a very limited effect, practically negligible, on the cost of production of our electricity, as reported by a specialist at our colleague whose analysis follows.

“The reasons for the cost of producing our electricity

They are at least four in number.

The first is that the weight of gas electricity in the French electricity mix is ​​low: 6% in 2021. Most of our electricity is of nuclear, hydraulic and renewable origin. The production costs of these forms of electricity are completely independent of the gas and its price. The cost of 94% of our electricity production is in no way affected by a rise in the price of gas.

The second reason is that (for these 6%) the cost of the fuel (the gas) represents only 10% of the cost of producing electricity using gas. The rest corresponds to the cost of capital, salaries, maintenance, all expenses which are obviously unrelated to the price of gas and its evolution.

The third reason is that for electricity in general and therefore also for gas-fired electricity, the cost of production only accounts for 50% (48% exactly) of the price paid in France by the household or business. The other half of this cost consists of marketing, transportation, distribution and tax expenses. These expenses and taxes are also completely independent of the price of gas.

Finally, the gas imported and used in France (to produce electricity and for other uses) is only 17% Russian. The price of Norwegian or Qatari gas that we consume is not directly affected by the war in Ukraine and the embargo on Russian gas. However, it can be argued that it is indirect, insofar as there are world or regional gas markets.

Putin's embargo on gas sales to Europe may have contributed to a fivefold increase in gas prices but certainly not led to a dramatic threat of a 35% increase in electricity prices in France.

European carelessness...

What turns this small +1.5% into a terrible +35%?

The European market is a rent factory

To understand this, you have to look at Brussels rather than Moscow.

There was a time when the price at which EDF sold electricity in France (we said: the tariff) was equal to the average cost of production of this electricity by EDF (plus an honest dividend paid by EDF to the State ). When these costs fell, tariffs fell, as happened during the period 1988-2008. Since these costs were largely capital costs, the rates were reasonably stable.

But “ideologists who idolize the market and Europe have postulated that a market was always preferable to a monopoly and that Europe was always preferable to France. They replaced an enlightened French monopoly with an unsuitable European market. »

Simplifying a complex system, we can say that the current price of European electricity is equal to the marginal cost of electricity in Europe, which is in practice the marginal cost of Russian gas electricity in Germany. When Putin's Russia reduces or ceases its gas deliveries to Germany, the price of gas in Germany jumps, dragging down the price of electricity in Germany and by contagion elsewhere in Europe and therefore in France.

What a boon for all infra-marginal electricity producers! They produce their electricity (nuclear or even renewable) at its usual cost and sell it at this European price, pocketing extravagant profits. In theory, a market, a functioning market of course, eliminates rents; in reality, the European electricity market generates rents.

The appearance of this rent has little to do with Putin.

The embargo of Russian President Putin, as we have seen, causes a 1.5% increase in the cost of electricity in France, which would have, in the time of EDF, led to an increase in the price of this order of magnitude . It is the European electricity market that generates an additional increase of 33.5%, leading to the 35% increase estimated by RTE.

Where does this European market come from? It was forged and set up on the initiative of the European Commission, with the support of the European Parliament, in decisions taken by European ministerial councils. »

...to French negligence since the Holland years

French nuclear power has missed the opportunity to stand out as the tool for energy independence and available and inexpensive current.

Indeed, the so-called “Energy-Climate” law of 2019 sealed the fate of these power plants: all were to be shut down in 2022 and their operation strictly limited in the meantime. Those responsible for this exit from the road are for the occasion the last two Presidents of the Republic, Hollande and Macron, both of whom, under pressure from the green lobby, will have had no rest, or almost, only to please him.

Very imprudent decisions, but the wise decision-makers of the time are still in power, better still, in the same niches: the only visible urgency was to precipitate a bill on the acceleration of the construction of wind and solar installations which we knows that in the best of the cases they will have no result on the problem posed by the next winters since the wind and the sun, intermittent, do not meet the needs especially in January/February at the times when one could wish it!!

In France, however, it is nuclear power and hydropower that have accounted for more than 87% of consumption for twenty years, so this is where the problem must be dealt with so as not to panic for the coming winters, and it is the action that reassures, not the word, asserts Loïk Le Floch-Prigent

However, the number of nuclear reactors currently shut down (twenty-seven out of fifty-six) is worrying, it is also worrying for professionals in the sector who have to take up a major challenge for the country's economy and its citizens, and for the credibility of their industrial tool.

And we are not even preparing for the future since after closing the Astrid program in 2019, that of fast neutron generators (RNR), the 4th nuclear generation, the one that uses waste, we don't even talk about it anymore while all our competitors are making great strides. Yves Bréchet, member of the Academy of Sciences, whose hearing before the parliamentary commission of inquiry aimed at shedding light on the reasons that presided over the loss of France's energy sovereignty, delivers a statement in the form of an indictment without appeal.

On the termination of the "Astrid" program, the objective of which was to develop the new generation of reactors of the future, a decision recorded in 2018, the former head of the CEA evokes "a decision emblematic of the disappearance of the strategist State and the transition from a strategist state to a talkative state”...

To stem the ten years of mistakes of the successive governments of François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron, we must, like Spain and Portugal, distance ourselves from the straitjacket of the European energy market.