In the spotlight: Calais still in the migratory deadlock

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Near a makeshift camp in Calais on October 14, 2021. The associations have around 1,500 people on site.

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By: Johanne Burgell

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The French state wants at all costs to avoid a new"

jungle

",

 " says the daily 

Le Figaro

, while the makeshift camps, dismantled by the police keep reappearing. The associations have around 1,500 people on site. Didier Leschi, boss of the French Office for Immigration and Integration (Offi) and state mediator in this case went again to Calais on Tuesday, November 2, 2021. He assured that the migrants “ 

Will be systematically accommodated

 ” if they so wish. But in the columns of

Figaro

, Didier Leschi warns: " 

we cannot share this idea that people would have an absolute right to settle in the worst conditions by refusing the accommodation offered, under the pretext of remaining within reach of smugglers.

At the risk of dying while crossing the Channel

.

"

The same policy for 20 years

A policy made up of powerlessness, repression and humanitarian action,"

continues

Le Figaro

On the one hand, an association mandated by the State feeds the migrants, on the other, a police bus monitors operations, photos are taken, we want to avoid any overflow.

 "" 

Outstretched hands and closing arms.

For its part,

Liberation

 qualifies as " 

sterile

 " the dialogue between the State and the defenders of migrants. The associations and 3 activists on hunger strike demand that the evacuations cease completely. The prefect of Pas-de-Calais continues to order it regularly, to avoid " 

fixing points ... Understand a potential new jungle

.

The associations denounce harassment.

Complicated start of "PMA for all"

Le Monde

wonders: " 

Will PMA babies for all see the light of day before the end of the five-year term?"

Nothing is more uncertain, to observe the first acts of the deployment of the bioethics law in hospitals.

Three months after its vote, one month after the publication of its implementing decrees, support for single women and female couples began timidly

.

"In question,

Le Monde

tells us

," 

an influx of new requests that had not been anticipated.

 "

In Lille, for example, women are put on a waiting list for a sperm donation.

The delay is about a year.

New demands have exploded: 3,500 in 2021, against the 1,000 expected by the government.

At Montpellier University Hospital, a doctor protested in the columns of

the World

 ' 

J

'

have a secretary who continues to answer calls, but I did not care staff to support women nor the necessary equipment

.

"

Tech giants leave China

The former internet flagship, Yahoo, and the game phenomenon Fortnite, will withdraw from China, following in the footsteps of LinkedIn.

"Announcements that occur, we learn the newspaper

Les Echos

, while" 

Beijing has beefed up its arsenal in favor of data protection

. »A law has been in force since September 2021 and another is planned for November 2021, modeled on the general European GDPR regulation. The new regulations, details the

Figaro Economy

, “

is forcing Western digital companies doing business in China to new demands.

Such as the need to be accountable to the surveillance agencies of the country.

Personal information stored in China cannot be transferred to countries with lower regulatory standards

.

"

In Beijing's sights, the United States, which has no national data protection law.

Video games, the last sector to fall under Beijing's ax

The Chinese authorities have in fact prohibited those under 18 from spending more than three hours a week behind their console.

“ 

The administration has also erected new barriers around the content of games, to limit the presence of effeminate male characters, homosexual romances or even stories that would come, says Beijing, to distort historical facts.

 "

The coup de grace for the online game Fortnite which had already had to exclude “ 

violent, obscene or politically sensitive content

 ” from its Chinese version.

As we recall, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram YouTube and Wikipedia have been totally blocked in China for more than ten years.

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