In the News: unemployment fell in France last year

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By: Norbert Navarro

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With 8.1% of the unemployed, France has returned to its lowest level of job seekers in twelve years.

But according to Le Figaro , even if we have to " beware of any triumphalism ", even if with 8.1% of the unemployed, " there is nothing to get on the tables, especially when our neighbors sometimes do it twice better than us ”, this result is“ anything but a coincidence ”, because it is the consequence of the obstinate reduction in the“ cost of labor ”.

Okay, admits L'Humanité , but " the 'big drop' touted in the press needs to be qualified ." Because, the communist daily notes, " if unemployment falls, the number of poor increases ."

Of course, also concedes The Republic of the Pyrenees , unemployment is falling, " but France is still at the bottom of the pack with Italy, Spain and Greece, while Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain prance "of full employment in Europe. And not just a little.

In any case, La Presse de la Manche objected, " unemployment and the weather are the same. There are the numbers, and there is the feeling. (...) This encouraging result obtained, remains the feeling of the population which, of course, between unbelievers and suspicious, does not always feel concerned ”.

Rififi in French cinema

Two weeks before the César ceremony, the management of the Academy that distributes these awards announced it last night: she resigned en bloc.

It is a real " coup de théâtre ", points out the newspaper Liberation , according to which the current management of the Académie des César has simply decided to " scuttle ", and the evening of the awards ceremony for French cinema, on 28 next February, looks " sporty ", he warns.

Being reminded that it is because of the twelve nominations of the film " J'accuse ", by Roman Polanski that a wind of sling rose in the world of French cinema against the academy of César, Liberation indicates that a part of the "highly contested board of directors of the institution had tested the idea of ​​collective resignation on Wednesday". Note that this excitement followed the publication on Tuesday in the newspaper Le Monde , of a text signed by 400 personalities denouncing serious " dysfunctions " within the Academy, chaired by producer Alain Terzian.

" The Polanski affair " in French cinema, therefore, but not only ... The literary world is also shaken by the " Matzneff affair ". With a search at the Parisian home of this writer publicly accused of pedophilia:

The newspaper Le Parisien revealed it. As part of the investigation for " aggravated rape " on minors under 15 years old which targets the 83-year-old writer, the Parisian home of Gabriel Matzneff was searched yesterday Thursday. " This is the first search carried out on the writer's, " said Le Parisien.

In addition, this week, the American daily newspaper The New York Times had revealed the “ support ” which would have brought to Gabriel Matzneff the former socialist of the 4th district of Paris, Christophe Girard.

Deputy mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, with whom the interested party is in charge of culture, Christophe Girard declares this morning in Le Parisien that Gabriel Matzneff " is not a close friend " and that he has " read none of his book (s) ", that he" does not intend to read them ", even if he has" almost all of them "in his library (being nevertheless specified that Gabriel Matzneff dedicated one to him). As Le Parisien points out, "one month from the municipal elections", Christophe Girard, " questioned for the support he gave to the writer accused of pedophilia ", is " in turmoil ".

In the Middle East, on several occasions, Turkish and Syrian armies have clashed in recent days in the province of Idlib

Bashar al-Assad's troops attempting to regain control while Ankara, which supports the rebels present in this region, demands an immediate end to the offensive.

And this confrontation between Damascus and Ankara deeply worries the newspaper Le Monde. " There is no good solution for Idlib," he admits. But the continuation of the supposedly “final” military offensive is certainly the worst for all the protagonists. Not only would it precipitate the forced displacement of populations towards Turkey (…), but it would cause a dissemination of jihadists and their weapons in Syria but also in Turkey ”. This is why the evening paper advocates a " real cease-fire including all the rebel groups ". Le Monde sees little other solution to " prevent a final bloodbath with incalculable consequences ".

A little sweetness, finally, with the saint of the day in the Christian calendar, Valentine's Day, patron saint of lovers

Because a French daily celebrates it ... in its own way: it is Le Figaro , which for the first time, offers its readers' loves a national edition printed on pink paper!

Why pink? Don't look, it's not because pink is supposed to be the color of love, no, no! - for the rest, until proven otherwise, Valentin is the patron saint of epilepsy, a nuance - but because Le Figaro is thus participating in the launch of a new perfume whose trade name refers to pink (and which be the rose, who knows?). But hey, Valentine's Day sells. Paper, already, was it pink. And Le Figaro , once is not custom, this morning sees life in pink, also via a visit to Saint-Valentin, a village of 300 inhabitants located in Berry, province of central France, and which “ welcomes 3000 visitors every February 14, ”reports this daily!

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