TADAM is the big comeback of our five news in retro! We hope you were able to fully enjoy your weekend. We spent these two days checking the news (it was not easy…). And it's time to sum it all up.
1. Macron speaks at 8 p.m.
The speech is expected: the President of the Republic will address the country this evening (to follow live on our site of course). To say what ? This is the big question. No doubt draw up a first assessment of the health crisis, a few days before a new phase of deconfinement, scheduled for June 22, explains 20 Minutes in this article. Some, like the deputy Aurélien Taché, plead for the youth, asking for the extension of the RSA and the payment of the training courses from the first day (the detail here). On the Medef side, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux awaits the complete lifting of the containment, because "the faster we deconfigure, the faster we will save jobs," he said.
More info: Emmanuel Macron is going to England to celebrate the call of June 18. It should escape the fortnight set up by the British for all French nationals ...
2. Several thousand people gathered against racism and police violence in Paris
A new day of assembly in the capital and several large cities against racism and police violence was taking place this Saturday at the call of the Adama Traoré committee. “Our generation no longer wants to suffer, it's up to us to change things! "Said the protesters, who were around 20,000 in Paris. Our journalist was present in the procession, to collect the testimonies of these young people: his report is to be read here.
The info in addition: Saturday evening around midnight, several dozen police gathered under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to express their dissatisfaction. "We expected the minister to show support and we have the impression that he is letting go of the police," they explained.
3. PSA ordered to rehire its temporary workers
Calling Polish or Spanish employees, currently out of work, to help their colleagues at the Hordain factory in the North of France, who are drowning in orders for commercial vehicles, was PSA's plan. But the French manufacturer had to back pedal this weekend in the face of pressure from the government. No more European workers, but the return of temporary workers who had been sidelined during confinement. "In the current situation, companies must do everything to protect employment in France," said the government.
More info: A mask factory project about to emerge from the ground in Brittany. Lebanese-Swiss businessman Abdallah Chatila signed a promise to sell to buy the former Chaffoteaux site in Ploufragan.
4. Abi wins The Voice
This is Abi, from the team of Pascal Obispo, who was crowned on Saturday evening on TF1 by viewers. The singer won season 9 telecrochet: he goes to Universal Music to record an album. The evening was a real hit with an audience according to a press release from TF1 this Sunday. It gathered 3.9 million viewers. "The public has shown me that I deserve my place," said the winner, who confided in 20 Minutes at length after his coronation.
The additional info: After a few days doing his pub, Jean-Marie Bigard announces that he will not finally run for president.
5. Football is back in Spain and Italy
Juventus passing against Milan and will find in the final of the Italian Cup Naples, which got rid of Inter, Italian side. The mano a mano between Barça, easy winner of Mallorca (4-0), and Real, who plays tonight against Eibar, Spanish side. Two of the biggest European strongholds of football have resumed in turn this weekend, after Germany and before England. And already the first controversies: it had missed a lot of people it seems.
The info in addition: The championship also resumed in the country of rugby, New Zealand. But there, there was an audience in the stands, and that changes everything.
Bonus: video of the day, Pekin neighborhoods reconfigured because of new Covid-19 cases
- Psa
- Medef
- Liga
- The Voice
- Racism
- Emmanuel Macron
- Society