Les Echos

The coronavirus epidemic is starting to decline, as the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, stressed yesterday.

Now is the time to prepare for deconfinement.

The question will be on the menu of the Defense Council, which will meet around Emmanuel Macron this Wednesday.

If the decline of the pandemic is confirmed, another Defense Council, scheduled for next week, should stop the deadlines for this new deconfinement, the second of the year.

'It will be progressive', already warns the Elysee, which wants at all costs to avoid a third confinement.

the Head of State should speak next week to outline the main stages of this second deconfinement. 

the date for the reopening of shops has not been decided,

Les Échos

, and is the subject of intense discussions between Bercy on the one hand and the Ministry of Health on the other.

The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, pleads for an opening as soon as possible (perhaps on December 1 or even before) in order to save the Christmas period.

For their part, traders affected by the closure are increasingly sounding the alarm bells

Black Friday

Liberation

: “the giants of the online sale, Amazon in mind, will they be the only ones to reap the benefits of this Black Friday, which has become a major phenomenon?

Physical stores are claiming to be able to reopen on November 27 to also save, thanks to this meeting, part of their turnover.

Liberation

62% of French people take the opportunity to buy at discounted prices electronics, fashion, beauty, household appliances or other products that can become a month later perfect Christmas gifts, totaling more than 6 billion euros in sales.

the government is looking for a miracle solution, but those put forward so far are unfair or dangerous,

Libé: it seems impossible to prevent Amazon from selling the millions of items it has already ordered from its suppliers in view of its fetish event, as it would be unthinkable to allow downtown stores to open for a day without creating hundreds of new clusters.

It would be fairer and more pragmatic for the government,

Liberation, to finally tax online commerce as it should, and to pay tax on Amazon's profits in France as compensation to the businesses it has forced to close on this sacred day of hyper consumerism.

Parisian

the restaurants be closed until January?"

(…) They are once again the big losers

While discussions are going well to reopen businesses on December 1, or even before if the epidemic recedes rapidly, the horizon of restaurant owners remains blocked.

As during the first deconfinement, these professionals will have to wait and watch the trains go by.

Yesterday,

Le Parisien, several media reported an opening at least after January 15 or February 1.

A calendar that the executive sweeps away with a wave of the hand, considering that nothing has been done. 

Le Monde

Will the French be able to celebrate Christmas with their families?"

The question raises as many questions in the population as at the top of the state, where it is admitted that the subject represents 'a huge puzzle'.

In the ministries, we have our hand that trembles in the face of this insoluble equation between the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic and social acceptability.

Le Monde

for the Christmas and New Years celebrations, we will have to reduce the sails.

Certainly, on the condition of an epidemic decline, businesses will be able to reopen with a strict protocol on December 1;

Admittedly, a second easing of confinement is envisaged by Jean Castex 'at the time of the Christmas holidays', so that the French 'can spend the end of the year holidays with their families'.

But extreme caution is required, and the bets are open on the physiognomy of the 2020 holidays. The only certainty, announced the Prime Minister: they will not be able to be held in the same way as usual '.