In the spotlight: in the face of variants, the European vaccine bet
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A health worker administers a dose of vaccine to a patient at a temporary vaccination center at the East London Mosque in the British capital JUSTIN TALLIS AFP
By: Sébastien Duhamel
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To counter the variants of covid-19, Europe is betting on vaccines
". Nothing new this morning on the front page of Le Figaro. The newspaper publishes an interview with Thierry Breton, the European commissioner in charge of industrial policy. At a time when "
Europe is launched in a chase against variants
", writes Le Figaro, Thierry Breton assures him: "
By mid-July
", the European Union should have "
doses needed to vaccinate 70% of its adult population
”. Brussels will provide them to the Member States.
Also by summer, "
production capacities should reach 200 million doses per month,
" says Thierry Breton.
He puts into perspective the European delay, much criticized in France, and prefers to insist on a fact of which
"the French are not aware
", namely that "
the vast majority of vaccines available have been developed by European researchers and funded by European funds
”.
Thierry Breton necessarily preaches for his parish…
The delay of the French vaccine
Not sure that this makes us forget, in any case, the delay of the French vaccine. It is the World which returns above this morning: "
The French industry remains lagging behind
", displays the newspaper in front. Yes,
“France is downgraded
” in this race: “
If the production of vaccines from other countries has now started, France is struggling to bring out its own
”. It remains "
confined to a role of subcontractor
". And as if to better show the French failure, Le Monde here takes the example of the Nantes biotech company Valneva. Its vaccine candidate has passed "
successfully the first phases of clinical study
", but the laboratory "
preferred to turn to the United Kingdom which assured him more orders
”.
It is now targeting a listing on the US Nasdaq.
Le Monde also returns to the promises of Emmanuel Macron, held on Sundays in an interview on CBS.
An “
optimistic
”
president
having affirmed that the European Union would keep its objectives and that the vaccine developed by Sanofi “
will be available soon
”.
A president already in the campaign
"
Already in the campaign, Macron police his thoughts
" one year from the presidential election, here is the analysis of
Liberation
. Word game on the theme of security, because it is on this one according to
Libé that
Emmanuel Macron launched yesterday "
a vast offensive aimed at the right-wing electorate
". On regal subjects, "
with a river interview at Le Figaro and a visit focused on safety in Montpellier
". To the point that Liberation sees Emmanuel Macron as
“the Little Nicolas
”.
"
Police, prison, drugs
", the president takes up Sarkozyste rhetoric.
On cannabis for example, he took up
"almost word for word the famous speech of Sarkozy held in 2003
against illicit drugs
".
But by thus closing the door to any relaxation of the legislation, "
even though a transpartisan parliamentary work was underway on the subject"
, well the Head of State seems to be going "
against the grain of what is at hand. works in many countries
”deplores
Liberation
.
It goes more simply, we can read, against "
doctors, actors in the field and elected officials
".
Risk alert for major European banks
Some do not learn from the mistakes of the past, or too little. This is obviously the case of the major European banks: alert relayed by
Les Echos
and launched yesterday by a report from the European Central Bank. After “
several years of investigation
” carried out with 65 institutions, the ECB is categorical: banks using their own model to assess their assets underestimate the risks by 12%. It's a bit technical, but concretely, to understand,
Les Echos
explain that this is an advantage enjoyed by the big banks in the euro zone: "
to calculate the amounts of equity they need, they can use internal models, which deviate from the so-called standard model, but the problem, for supervisors as well as for investors, is that each has its own recipe ”
, underlines
Les Echos
.
However, by underestimating the risks of their assets in this way, banks lower their solvency ratio and, therefore, the confidence that is placed in them.
It should be remembered that the 2008 financial crisis had already been caused by questionable banking practices.
Do the rich really want to do
“
separate football
”
?
This is what Liberation and many others think this morning, returning to this announcement which made the football planet tremble: The creation of a semi-private super league by 12 European clubs.
This shows "
The madness of grandeur
" and "
the insatiable appetite of the big cats"
for money, according to La Croix.
The Team is also
showing its opposition to the project this morning.
Le Figaro,
for its part, sees a real risk
of “football apartheid”
and above all “
the end of a dream for supporters proud of their flags
”.
And that is the saddest part.
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