What's new: a new disability plan

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By: Frédéric Couteau Follow

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" 'This is an issue that is close to his heart, important, essential, even a priority,' swears a close friend of Emmanuel Macron. This morning at the Élysée , Pointe Le Parisien, the head of state presides over a audience of 500 people in charge of associations, business leaders, citizens, elected officials and school directors of the national disability conference. In particular, improving schooling and creating places in specialized establishments. "

“ Twelve million French people with disabilities, one in five, recalls La Nouvelle République. You, perhaps, after a life accident, as the expression goes. And after that ? Help yourself and heaven will help you. It is a bit that still today, deplores the newspaper , despite a generous and ambitious law adopted under President Chirac fifteen years ago. Generous, but above all in words. Modestly revalued, the benefits wind through administrative and procedural meanders. Two million of our fellow citizens add to the constraints of their handicap those of misery. "

Liberation recalls the words of Emmanuel Macron in May 2017, between the two rounds of the presidential election: " 'I do not want more people living with disabilities who are without solutions, he had said. Because today, there are tens of thousands of our fellow citizens who are without solutions, left to their own devices, to a daily newspaper where there is no answer. ' Suffice to say, comments Liberation, that the announcements of the day, focused mainly on support, school and access to assistance, are expected at the turn. 'The President has shown us strong and concrete measures for far too long. The bond of trust is already damaged, 'warns Meryem Duval, vice-president of the Collectif citoyen handicap. "It will not be enough a beautiful speech to convince us," warns Arnaud de Broca, president of the Handicaps collective. And it is neither the symbolic date of February 11 (fifteen years after the adoption of the Chirac law), nor the ceremonial with great pomp of this 'National Disability Conference' (500 guests will attend the presidential speech), that will make you forget past tensions. "

Coronavirus : stop or again?

Also in the newspapers, the coronavirus epidemic. " The coming days could be decisive, both health and political ": this is what Le Monde says .

" According to official figures, the number of new cases registered daily begins to decrease in both Hubei and the rest of China. (…) A tendency to stabilize more than to improve. "But," one of the reasons for fear, continues the evening paper, is that the Lunar New Year celebrations, which were extended to delay the return to work, were, despite everything, to end the day before yesterday. Both employers and employees need, for obvious economic reasons, to resume their activity. Suddenly, the Chinese confined to their homes should gradually start going out and traveling. "So wonders Le Monde :" can we prevent this return to a certain normalcy from leading to a further worsening of the epidemic outside Hubei? This is the whole question for the authorities, who are increasing the number of checks throughout the country, in order to quarantine any person with a fever. "

Xi Jinping will he release ballast?

At the same time, the challenge is growing against an opaque power which has been slow to react…

" Chinese social networks are in turmoil ," says Le Figaro. The Internet police no longer know where to turn, as Chinese internet users are inventive to circumvent its censorship. The Chinese do not go out on the streets but they still protest, en masse, armed with their only computers and smartphones. They can no longer bear to suppress the truth. They no longer trust the party to govern them. The absolute authority of its leader, President Xi, is now questioned. "So, Le Figaro wonders," to save its future, is the Chinese Communist Party ready to let go? Will he force Xi Jinping to return to a more collegial exercise of power? Will it encourage decentralization based on a real rule of law? Will he finally apply the human and citizen rights provided for in the Constitution? On the contrary, are we going to witness a hardening of the regime, once the alert of the epidemic has passed? Xi Jinping is now faced with a crucial choice. "

Germany in crisis

Germany is running out of steam ... both economically and politically.

" Bad pick," exclaims Le Figaro. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the runner-up chosen by Angela Merkel to succeed him, threw in the towel fourteen months after being elected on the wire at the head of the CDU. It has never succeeded in establishing its authority over Christian Democrats who are deeply divided between the social current of the Chancellor, who anchored her party in the center, and a conservative wing which accuses her of having thus opened up space to the 'far right. (…) After more than fourteen years in power, Angela Merkel verifies a brazen law, already undergone by Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl, points Le Figaro: the fourth term is always the term too many. Tired, passive and without new ideas, the Chancellor sails by sight on an increasingly fragmented political scene, under the clouds of a skating economy. The election of the CDU's next boss, announced for the summer, will seal his legacy: either another centrist in his image, capable of forging an alliance with the Greens, or even leaving the Chancellery to their popular leader, Robert Habeck; or his intimate enemy Friedrich Merz, liberal conservative who wants to hunt on the right and recover the disappointed with migration policy, gone in numbers to the AfD. "

Finally, notes Le Journal de La Haute Marne , “ the fragmentation of the political class is not a French specialty. It crosses many European countries, with the rise of the far right. Germany seemed to escape this disintegration. She has just plunged into the cauldron of uncertainty. "

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