French press review
In the spotlight: The new setbacks of Italian politics…
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Italian Council President Mario Draghi during a press conference in Rome, July 12, 2022. AP - Mauro Scrobogna
By: Sébastien Duhamel Follow
4 mins
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Like an air of bis repeated.
Italy “
on the threshold of a political crisis
”, says
Le Monde
: “
Mario Draghi's coalition threatens to collapse
”.
Following the defection of the Mouvements 5 Étoiles, the Prime Minister presented his resignation refused by the president, recalls
Le Monde
.
From now on, Italy has five days to "
find a way out
", develops
Le Figaro
which tells us about the "
major maneuvers to retain Mario Draghi
".
He must “
explain himself with the parties of his majority on Wednesday before Parliament
” and “
the supporters of the President of the Council count their forces, with the hope of making him return all his resignation
”.
Concern for Europe
The press sees this with a worried eye, for Italy and more broadly for Europe.
“
The Italian bomb
” is how
Le Figaro
describes this situation.
But if "very
often, the label of providential man betrays the ego of the one who decks himself out with it, with Mario Draghi it is quite the opposite: the President of the Italian Council believes himself to be so little indispensable that he has decided to resign.
However, those who observe the situation in his country cross their fingers so that he overcomes the current psychodrama and remains in control”
, analyzes
Le Figaro
.
"
The simple truth is that our neighbor cannot afford the luxury of a crisis
," the newspaper said.
“
It straddles a public debt of 2,500 billion euros which exceeds those of Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Spain combined.
Rome currently depends on the 200 billion line of credit granted last year by the Europeans”
.
So, "
in light of such issues, the small interests of the 5 Star Movement find it difficult to move us"
, underlines
Le Figaro
.
“
The urgency for its leader is to get noticed before the elections scheduled for spring 2023... Bravo, it's a success!
But was it worth lighting a bomb that can blow up all of Europe
?
Le Figaro
...
In Gironde, "the fire of the century"
And meanwhile in France, the fires continue to disfigure the south, the Gironde in particular.
"
1800 firefighters mobilized
" for a "
hand-to-hand fight
", headlines
Today in France
.
"
Faced with the gravity of the situation, President Macron supervised a crisis cell and the European solidarity mechanism was activated
," it read.
“
Never had the Gironde experienced such a devastating episode
”.
Since Tuesday, nearly 7,700 hectares of forest have gone up in smoke in two gigantic fires.
"
It's the fire of the century, clearly",
testifies Carles Cosse, Unsa trade unionist for the firefighters of Gironde.
More than 11,000 people have been evacuated, says
Today in France
, and it's quite simple: “
If we hadn't made the decision to evacuate, we wouldn't be talking only about the material assessment,”
says Ronan Léaustic, the sub-prefect of Arcachon.
The ParcourSup galley
This is the story of the galley slaves of ParcourSup, told by
Le Monde today
.
"
The fate of students without a master's still pending,"
the newspaper tells us.
The problem is that “
good candidates are stuck in waiting lists
”.
"
The main phase of assignment in higher education is coming to an end, but baccalaureate holders with honors are still waiting
", deplores
Le Monde
.
“
In the summer of 2021, Minister Vidal had nevertheless promised to create additional places”
, but “
today the ministry does not give any details”
.
It's very simple, "
there are fewer places than in 2010, when there are 500,000 more students,”
underlines the creator of a student platform...
Result, in total today: more than 94,000 candidates remain without any assignment, out of a total of 936,000.
Or nearly one in 10 students, says
Today in France,
which is also interested in their fate this morning.
So for them, it is now time for the next phase, warns the newspaper.
The summer can be very long for these galley slaves from Parcoursup.
The case of the spy who is not one…
He is not a spy after all, but his crossing of the desert must have been long too... "
A candid in the sulphurous country of the Kims
".
It is
Liberation
which presents him to us as well, him and his somewhat crazy story: Benoit Quennedey, enarque and official of the Senate.
His wrong?
To be "
passionate
", "
fascinated
" by North Korea, where he made 8 trips, to the point of having been arrested by the DGSI in 2018, "
accused of treason and intelligence on behalf of the regime
".
He was finally cleared by the courts in April so, for the first time, he gave himself up in the media.
"
This arrest was so crazy that I first thought it was a kidnapping
“, he says.
He still has a real fascination for Pyongyang today that he is cleared, he also says he is "torn" by the fact of returning there.
In short, it is the story of a "
naive ",
Libé
makes us understand ,
not that of a "
spy
".
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