Sud-Ouest

“yesterday, despite an absent crowd and massively armed National Guards, American democracy showed itself in its best light.

[…] Joe Biden gave the speech that was expected of him in these very special circumstances: an ode to tolerance, to national unity, to the virtues of democracy, rejecting with words the specter of what he aptly termed an

driving back into darkness the continents of disinformation and so-called alternative truths.

[…] What a contrast,

Southwest, with this other Wednesday, two weeks earlier, where a factious populace invaded the Capitol and threatened the parliamentarians!

It is this contrast that Joe Biden will have as his first task to mitigate so that the United States does not relive such a day. 

Trump was absent, but the chaos he embodied was in fact omnipresent,

Ouest France

The inauguration of the 46th President of the United States was not that democratic ritual that we usually celebrate a little mechanically, as we repeat the obvious.

In the gravity of the moment, even before the new president's program, democracy itself was the dominant theme.

Joe Biden even expressed it very clearly.

did he declare.

 And Biden concludes this message, both to Americans and to the world:

The presence of Mike Pence, the outgoing vice-president at odds with Trump, was proof. 

“Joe Biden is an old-school liberal internationalist, coupled with a realist who is skeptical of major interventionist projects.

Despite his "moral compass", he is not a missionary of democracy.

The new president will have far too much to do domestically.

If he re-engaged the United States in multilateralism, it will always

Le Figaro, to defend the interests of "America first".

In order to have "a friend" in the Oval Office, Europeans will do well to help.

America today is waiting for Europe to help it as much as it will help it.

Le Courrier Picard

by leaving his throne vacant in the White House, it is not certain that Trump has flushed out

Les Echos

"

America has become the epicenter of global instability," he

And the effective arrival of Joe Biden in power does not rule out the risk of seeing the American extreme right continue to act against American democracy.

On the contrary.

And Trump may well continue to encourage them from his new place of opponent.

symbolic measures

The hope of a peaceful memory

Liberation.

There will be symbolic gestures […].

In the coming months, Emmanuel Macron will commemorate three dates: the day of national homage to the harkis, September 25;

the repression of a peaceful demonstration by Algerians on October 17;

and the Evian Accords, on March 19.

"the historian proposes the establishment of a commission" memories and truth "common to France and Algeria, the recognition of the assassination by the French army of the lawyer Ali Boumendjel during the battle Algiers in 1957 or the entry into the Pantheon of Gisèle Halimi, a figure of feminism and anti-colonialist activist.

Emmanuel Macron is from a generation that can allow himself this work,

He considers that he can look history in the face.

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“This is the whole point of the Stora report.

It is to a strategy of small memorial steps that France, and Algeria with it, is invited to demine one after the other, conscientiously and modestly, so many sources of resentment and tension.

Since memory always hurts, excuses are irrelevant: they do not close the chapter and would open to further indignation.