In the spotlight: the sovereignist temptation

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The front page of the French daily Liberation, this Monday, October 18, 2021. © Liberation

By: Frédéric Couteau Follow

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Sovereignism: the European Union on edge 

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Liberation.

“As in Poland, where the superiority of national law over Community law has just been confirmed, the temptation of a Europe of everyone for themselves is being emulated in France and within several Member States.

 "

First of all, Poland,

Liberation

point

 : 

The shock wave caused by the judgment of the Polish Constitutional Court of October 7 affirming the preeminence of national law over European law is such that the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, has decided to come and explain himself to Parliament tomorrow Tuesday. European, meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg. Faced with strong internal opposition following this judgment rendered by judges on the orders of the ultraconservative party in power, Law and Justice, and under the threat, agitated in particular by the European Parliament, of no longer having access to European funding, prelude to a "Polexit" of fact, he will try to put out the fire which he himself started.This is all the more urgent as the European summit of 27 heads of state and government on Thursday and Friday put the Polish subject on the agenda.

 "

Bumping into Brussels ...

Beware also of the sovereignist temptation in France, notes

Liberation

again 

:

knocking on Brussels is always profitable in the eyes of certain presidential candidates.

Six months before the election, many have already started hostilities.

 »From Arnaud Montebourg, to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, via Éric Zemmour, or even Michel Barnier, however, former European commissioner and Brexit negotiator.

So “ 

the EU is doing nothing?

 ": No, exclaims

Liberation.

The Covid crisis has again shown this to be wrong.

Has the ECB not lifted its fiscal rules and supported member states?

What do we do with the 750 billion euro recovery plan?

But these facts are no longer enough,

sighs the newspaper,

so sovereignism is in the air, on the right as on the left.

It all depends on the definition that suits you.

As for Europe, it is à la carte.

And you have six months to find yours in an ocean of nuances, because the question will not leave the debates of this presidential election, even less with France at the head of the Council of the Union from January.

 "

Covid-19: Bolsonaro accused of crimes against humanity

To read in

La Croix

,

this file on the

"

bankruptcy of Bolsonaro

": "

in Brazil, a commission of inquiry must deliver a report tomorrow on the disastrous management of the president in the face of the Covid. We already know the main features. This report goes so far as to speak of a "crime against Humanity"

. "

The Covid-19 killed 600,000 in Brazil, recalls the newspaper. It is the second country most damaged by the coronavirus, just behind the United States. And " 

the questions to which the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry claimed to answer were numerous: why no containment was decided on a large scale to contain the spread of the virus? Who are responsible for the collapse of the country's health system? Was there corruption in the purchase of overpriced vaccines? At the end of five months of investigation, at least 40 politicians and business leaders should be implicated by the commission,

points

The cross.

This work of parliamentarians "is important, underlines this professor at the Foundation of Political Sciences of Sao Paulo interviewed by La Croix. It will allow public opinion to know the responsibility of the government in a concrete way".

And that of President Bolsonaro in the first place,

exclaims the newspaper.

His speeches denying the severity of the epidemic, the effectiveness of masks, containment, and even vaccination, have helped spread the virus.

The Commission of Inquiry proved it: his blindness killed.

Randolfe Rodrigues, senator and vice-president of the commission, has already announced that the Brazilian president was accused of 11 crimes, including that of crimes against public health, charlatanism and against humanity

 ”

A meteorite in its bed

Finally, on the

Figaro

website

, this incredible meteorite story in Canada… “ 

On the night of Sunday, October 2, Ruth Hamilton, a resident of British Columbia, was awakened by an explosion: a meteorite had passed through her ceiling and landed in his bed, right next to his pillow.

She came out unscathed.

 "

Le Figaro

specifies that “ 

hundreds of meteorites would reach the surface of the Earth each year, but rarely in places where they can be easily recovered.

The chances of a meteor hitting your house are about one in 4 trillion ...

 "

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