In the News: another world

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By: Frédéric Couteau Follow

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Is another world possible after the coronavirus epidemic? Yes, answer the French, through a poll published this morning by Liberation and the Viavoice polling institute.

" There will be an after-coronavirus , the newspaper points out. If it will be a question of drawing lessons in terms of health strategy in the face of such an epidemic, the aspiration of the French to the emergence of "another world" is already in the majority . "

Indeed, specifies Liberation , “ if the political leaders, like a number of intellectuals, struggle to reinvent their 'software', the French, them, have already launched the update and the post-crisis of the Covid-19 is good gone to weigh on the next presidential ”.

Rethinking Europe

So, " from this" other world ", certain lines of force appear , points Libé . In this study, "collective sovereignty", therefore European, "going beyond the market society", therefore competitive before being united, and the defense of "common goods", therefore public service, are themes that meet strong adhesion. In matters of sovereignty, for example, there is no fall back on the only French nation: 70 % of those questioned believe that it is necessary to "resume European construction and create a real European power" and 84 % that it is necessary "to relocate to Europe the maximum of production chains which were until now delocalized in Asia ". All with "much stricter economic protectionism". "

In addition, observes Liberation , "when asked about" going beyond the market society ", 69 % of French people consider it necessary to" slow down productivism and the perpetual search for profitability ", for example in defiance of workers' health, and 70 % of "reducing the influence of finance and shareholders on the life of companies". These are all statements that are no longer the preserve of only left-wing voters. "

Finally, notes Liberation , " to move towards a world" with new rules of governance and economics, better able to face crises such as the coronavirus ", Nicolas Hulot is the one who generates the most confidence among personalities tested by Viavoice, with 39 % favorable responses, ahead of Emmanuel Macron (33 %) and Édouard Philippe (32 %), for whom it is difficult to predict in which political state they will emerge from the current crisis. "

Helping Africa

Also on the front page, Africa also hit by the coronavirus. Be careful, warns La Croix, “ the pandemic is spreading on the continent. The day before yesterday, 46 African countries were affected by the virus. Containment measures are becoming more widespread as the African Union and WHO try to organize the response to the pandemic. Many fear a disaster to come. "

And it is absolutely necessary to help Africa, exclaims Le Monde , for it and for us. " Europeans, flabbergasted by their own situation, must find the means to support the neighboring continent if they want to avoid suffering the repercussions of an unprecedented shaking," says Le Monde. "The disease will return from the South to the North. So it is in the interest of the countries of the North to make this massive investment in Africa," warns Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary general. The question of the cancellation of bilateral debts and the suspension of repayments due to the IMF must therefore be asked, said the evening daily. Developed countries will not emerge from the nightmare if the virus continues to thrive on their doorstep due to a lack of solid international cooperation. Europe needs a common health strategy, Le Monde concludes , to remedy the weaknesses of African states. "

" Our Pope is dead "

Finally, the disappearance of Pape Diouf. " The shock " exclaims La Provence. “ Affected by the coronavirus, Pape Diouf died yesterday evening in Dakar, when he was preparing to be repatriated to France. Five days after Michel Hidalgo, OM mourns another of its legends. "

" Our Pope is dead, " sighs L'Equipe on the front page.

" His personality will have marked Africa and France," continues the sports daily. He was the first black president of an elite club in our country, the one who, in his way will have cleared the way. He was proud to have shown the way, to have been a pioneer. Of a rare intelligence, of an immense culture, he wanted to be a kind of model of integration, one which had resisted all the difficulties, which had faced adversity, in an environment where the standard was not with the opening. "

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