Headlines: July 14 dreamed of Emmanuel Macron

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By: Norbert Navarro

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The president hopes that the French will be able to come out of confinement and celebrate the National Day:

It is a hope "  caressed in secret  " by the Head of State, reports Le Parisien : that of July 14 and its traditional parade, "  which could symbolically mark the resumption of events  ".

"  It is a psychological date  " that the president "  actually has in mind  ", confides to this daily a close friend of Emmanuel Macron, who "  would dream that July 14th is a celebration of liberation from generalized confinement  ".

Reason why the president "  does not mean today that there will be no July 14," explains an adviser to the Parisian . He wants to remain open on this question, because he realizes that it is a strong symbol  ”. A relative confirms to this newspaper, "  for him, the symbolism is this one, even if there is no guarantee (that July 14) will be able to stand  ."

Until then, the deconfinement will have to be set to music. The site is actively preparing, the French government having already defined its directives to prepare it

"  Rarely have ministers been subjected to such pressure,  " said Le Figaro. The Prime Minister's services having asked the other ministries to prepare "  action plans  " in view of May 11, this newspaper reveals the main lines.

Seventeen plans have been defined "  in the priority areas  " and distributed among the members of the government, announces this daily, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran finding himself "  without surprise in the front line  ".

It is up to the interdepartmental delegate responsible for de-containment, Jean Castex, to summarize it, a "  first draft  " to be ready on April 22. Last night, the ministers concerned were to transmit an "  exhaustive list of questions  " posed by de-containment. "  We are returning our copies this evening !" ", Laughed a minister a few hours ago in Le Figaro.

After being forced by French justice to assess the risks for its employees, the multinational Amazon is stationary in France. But everywhere else in the world, containment is a boon for this American retail giant

Amazon has closed all of its distribution centers in France and is unable to say when they can reopen. But indeed, in the rest of the world, the multinational is operating at full speed.

Enough  to be worth a nickname to his boss Jeff Bezos, who becomes "  covet's greedy " on the front page of Liberation. Because the confinement did not weaken his group, "  it is even the opposite," notes Libé: his model seems made to take advantage of the crisis  ", supporting investigation.

This daily newspaper thus affirms that, "  for weeks  ", in Amazon's warehouse stores, there were "  no safe distances, nor hydroalcoholic gel  ".

A temporary worker approached by this newspaper showed him photos which he said he had taken at the end of March, and on which "  we see employees agglutinated in long queues  ". "  Amazon is a virus box, we are all stuck constantly  ", said this employee at Liberation , being supplemented that, even admitting that everything was not "  perfect  ", the management of this group claims to have taken provisions to protect its employees.

Liberation therefore finds that Amazon "  did not understand the situation  ." Because according to this daily, the modernity and the dominant position of this American giant on the virtual economy “  are too often coupled with a very bossy archaism in the management of its employees. Amazon has sales methods adapted to the 20th century; we often work there as in the 19th century  ”. No, consumer service "  does not excuse everything, states Libé, (...) economic modernity must go hand in hand with social modernity  ".

He is anything but Covid's greedy, it's Jean-Paul Agon. Consequences of the coronavirus crisis oblige, the CEO of the French group L'Oréal, world number one in beauty products, will cut his salary

"  In this crisis, this seems normal and legitimate,  " says Jean-Paul Agon to Le Figaro. The boss of L'Oréal will "  reduce by 30% (his) overall salary in 2020  " and, at the same time, Mr. Agon will "  give up all of (his) performance actions  ", being also stressed that the L'Oréal group did not request any deferral of charges and did not want to benefit from the partial unemployment scheme set up by the government, "  so as not to resort to state aid  ", says Jean-Paul Agon in Le Figaro .

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