In the headlines: the coronavirus is in retreat and makes Olivier Véran optimistic
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Olivier Véran announces in Le Parisien Dimanche this Sunday, September 19: “We are clearly on the right track (…) there are reasons to be optimistic”.
Photo taken on August 26, 2021, in Paris.
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By: Norbert Navarro
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The French Minister of Health is now hinting at the beginnings of an end to the health crisis in France.
“
We are clearly on the right track (…) there are reasons to be optimistic
,” Olivier Véran told
Parisien Dimanche
.
After Emmanuel Macron hinted at it, the Minister of Health mentions in this newspaper the possibility of "
gradually easing the restrictions
", relief which "
could include the health pass
".
Small alert for Emmanuel Macron.
The president's popularity sagged this month
According to an Ifop poll for
Le Journal du Dimanche
, Emmanuel Macron loses three points in this monthly barometer, going from 41% to 38% satisfied.
"
It's a small alert, but still significant,
" said
Le JDD.
Prime Minister Jean Castex loses four points, dropping from 40% to 36% of favorable opinions.
Political again, with the renowned very Europhile Michel Barnier who surprised more than one by recently declaring that France had to recover its "
legal sovereignty
" then by writing in a tweet that he no longer wanted the French to be "
subject to the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union or of the European Court of Human Rights
”.
The former Chiraquian minister, candidate for the nomination of LR for the next presidential election, thus surprised the weekly
Mariann
e
. Which magazine is astonished at the "
sudden conversion
" of the former European Commissioner Michel Barnier, and that he had to "
blow out his 70th birthday to begin to discover the reality of the European trap
".
Marianne
is still astonished that the former Minister of European Affairs of the Juppé government "
denounces the abandonment of sovereignty that he negotiated
" and recalls that, "
until recently, the same Michel Barnier was among those who called all names those who said what he says today
”.
Of course, this pavement in the European backwater thus launched by Michel Barnier can be understood in the light of his candidacy for the nomination of the Republicans for the next presidential election.
But as
Le Canard Enchaîné
underlines
,
its "
about-face caused consternation in Brussels
".
Also, in the event that Michel Barnier's candidacy does not prosper, the satirical weekly suggests that he "
try his luck in London, where Boris Johnson, not resentful, will find him a small job
"!
Lionel Jospin talks about the French presence in the Sahel
It is in this same magazine that Lionel Jospin is back this week.
The former Socialist Prime Minister mentions in particular the question of France's departure from the Sahel.
Her word being rare, she carries all the more.
For Lionel Jospin, French military interventions outside "must take
place within a limited period of time and obey clear and accessible war goals
".
According to the former socialist prime minister, France "will have" to leave the Sahel.
"We
will have to leave, choosing the right moment and weighing all the consequences of our departure,
" he said to
Marianne
.
Heritage Day in France
This weekend in France is heritage days.
The opportunity for the French to visit sites that are inaccessible to them the rest of the year, and of which they are often proud.
And even more, because, as
L'Express
remarks
, heritage is a “
highly inflammable subject”
because it touches
“
a sensitive, even intimate area of the common identity
”.
It is a "
testament
"
which
"
binds its heirs, old and new, and thereby contributes to cementing peoples
".
After its fire, should we rebuild Notre-Dame de Paris identically or add a post-modern spire? As
L'Express
explains
, "
the endless quarrel between ancient and modern, conservatives and innovators (…) shapes the flesh of nations through a constantly renewed game of tension and balance
".
The French, this weekend, visit the palaces of the Republic or the old stones?
Le Figaro Magazine is
interested this week in those who, permanently and not for a weekend, "
live in a historic monument
". Here, a professional astronomer who, stars in his eyes, has lived for forty years at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence; there, the curator of the Abbey of Port-Royal des Champs, who lives in this Jansenist high place where the shadow of Jean Racine and that of Blaise Pascal still loom; further on, this couple who watch day and night over the dead in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris… In Le
Fig Mag
, the list is long of these heritage sentries who have made their life a monumental adventure.
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