In the spotlight: the night of the stars

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Tonight, the semi-final first leg of the Champions League is played between PSG and Manchester City.

"Mbappé and Neymar who have never seemed so strong and so strong together", assures the daily Le Parisien.

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 They came, they are all there

, launches

Le Parisien

.

The night of the stars begins tonight at the Parc des Princes (at 9 p.m.) and the good news is that there is no need for a refracting telescope to observe this Milky Way, populated by the new galactics of football.

 "

In the semi-final first leg of the Champions League, PSG therefore welcomes the English Manchester City. “ 

A match of stars, of constellations at every corner of the field,

insists

Le Parisien (…): Mbappé and Neymar who have never seemed so strong and so strong together. Opposite, the Belgian de Bruyne and the English Foden, among others, can dream of a first European final and a destiny that changes. 

"

And then face to face, two coaches with radically opposed methods… Indeed,

Liberation

points out

, “an opposition between two philosophies

: on the one hand, Pep Guardiola,

“at the head of an XXL capital re-dressed in pushed almost Soviet collectivism ",

And on the other, Mauricio Pochettino, with a

" very Zidanian vision, indexing the value of a team on the superpower and the initiatives of its players

.

"

A little more than a football match

In any case, " 

this semi-final of the Champions League between PSG and Manchester City raises tremendous excitement 

," says

L'Équipe

. “

 Paris has just eliminated Barça and Bayern, 11 Champions League between them, and now he must overthrow a new rich, like him, to hope to challenge Real Madrid or Chelsea in the final on May 29. It would be a huge achievement.

 "

All the more so, underlines the sports daily, that this PSG-Manchester “

 is a little more than a football match.

They are two neighbors from the Middle East, owners of these clubs, who clash against a backdrop of geopolitical rivalry, or two managers who each have at least one revenge to take on the other.

But it is also, perhaps, a ticket for the next Ballon d'Or,

points again

L'Équipe, for which Mbappé and De Bruyne are, for the time being, favorites.

So many issues for a single evening: it promises to be explosive

.

"

Biden, a new Roosevelt?

Also in the headlines this Wednesday: the 100 days of Joe Biden. 

“ 

Surprise!

 »Exclaims

Le Figaro.

“ 

Joe Biden was only to be a transitional president, in other words passing through. An old gentleman no doubt sympathetic, but blundering and disconnected, who one could only hope that he would bring calm to an America left on the brink of civil war by Hurricane Donald Trump. In no case should a reformer be expected, much less a visionary.

"

And yet, so it is.

Some compare him to Franklin Roosevelt,"

point out

Les Latest Nouvelles d'Alsace.

Biden made the choice to help poor families and the middle classes, to invest in infrastructure, health, social and energy transition.

And to largely finance this effort of the nation by a taxation of high incomes and companies.

Republicans cry Bolshevism, Biden passes.

He bet on boldness, the one that Obama had not dared or known or been able to make, after the 2008 crisis. Biden, the convinced liberal split the armor and freed himself from dogmas.

At 78, he has become the most surprising president of the modern era.

 "

Fairer taxation

For

La Croix

, Biden's most spectacular measure is raising taxes for the wealthy and for businesses.

Of course, “ 

the impact of the pandemic on the economy requires finding new recipes to restore activity.

 "But there is also a structural reason, points out the Catholic daily:" 

the continuous reduction in taxes has led to a spectacular increase in inequalities in the United States and in many other countries.

What the Obama presidency had hardly tackled, leaving the field open to the populist demagoguery of Donald Trump.

By putting the interests of the middle and lower strata of society first, Joe Biden is changing the tax game globally.

 "

Francophonie: opaque management

Finally, read this

Liberation

survey

on the OIF, the International Organization of La Francophonie.

The newspaper “ 

had access to numerous internal documents, audit reports, balance sheets and legal notes which show serious failings within the organization: discretionary recruitments, lack of transparency, exorbitant expenses and representation fees, operations suspicious financials, the list goes on.

And the arrival of a new team at the head of the organization,

again points

Liberation, does not seem to have put an end to these abuses.

 "

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