French press review
In the spotlight: the fiasco in the export of "made in France"
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France's trade deficit reached 71 billion euros this semester, a record.
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By: Norbert Navarro
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71 billion euros is France's record half-yearly trade deficit!
This is all the more serious since, in the month of June alone, the trade deficit plunged by 13.3 billion euros, "
a new monthly record
", alarmed
Le Figaro
.
Of course, gas and oil, the prices of which flared up as a result of the war in Ukraine.
Of course, the fall in the euro against the dollar has increased the oil bill.
But not only… and “
the symbolic bar of 100
billion euros in annual deficit should logically be crossed at the end of the year
”, warns
Le Figaro
.
“
There are indeed two Frances
”, remarks this daily.
“
On the one hand, hyper-profitable multinationals, on the other an arch-deficit trade balance.
The France of the big industrialists who sail on globalization, defy crises with their factories all over the planet, and, further, the battalion of SMEs who produce everywhere in the country and struggle to sell beyond our borders (…) the "made in France" has lead in the wing.
»
What to do ?
“ It
's up to Jupiter to become Hercules, and to work for our factories,
” says
Le Figaro
.
The works are not lacking
!
".
Mélenchon the Chinese puts the Nupes under tension
Public dispute within the French left.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon having described the recent visit of the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan as a “
provocation by the USA
”, some of his Nupes partners have publicly denounced this position.
Mélenchon's support for China "
which had the effect of raising the hairs of its partners
" within the left, summarizes
Le Parisien
.
This is how the national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens Julien Bayou expressed his disagreement with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, when the leader of the Insoumis wrote that "
Taiwan is an integral part of China
" and that Westerners must let "
the Chinese
“settle it”
between them
“.
Position with which the First Secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, has also distanced himself.
“
Jean-Luc Mélenchon will end up becoming a problem for the Insoumis,
predicts, in
Le Parisien
, a tenor deputy from the left.
Their position will become unreadable.
They support the Kurds, the Yemenis, condemn the authoritarian excesses of Erdogan (the Turkish president), of
Mohamed ben Salman
(the Saudi crown prince) but are blinded by the anti-Atlanticism of Mélenchon.
»
For the time being, the Insoumis "
are united behind the leader
", underlines this daily.
“
The legislature that opens will say if the Insoumis group allows itself to deviate from pure and hard Melenchonism.
To claim, politically, a small part of independence
, ”wonders
Le Parisien
.
When justice challenges Darmanin
Failure for the Minister of the Interior.
The Paris administrative court yesterday
suspended the expulsion of a preacher
deemed close to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Expulsion that Gérald Darmanin had however announced.
“
Weeks ago, like that…
”, sighs
Le Parisien
ironically , a way of underlining the disavowal inflicted by justice on the Minister of the Interior.
Reminder of the facts, as recorded by this newspaper: “
Tuesday August 2, during questions to the government in the National Assembly, Gérald Darmanin replied to the deputy RN Sébastien Chenu by announcing that Morocco had issued a “consular pass” ( …), to
“expel manu militari” Imam Hassan Iquioussen
(…) Three days later, the Minister of the Interior suffered a setback
”, notes
Le Parisien
, after the first instance, the administrative justice considered that the expulsion of the imam would infringe his right to lead a normal private and family life.
Gérald Darmanin having immediately announced that he would appeal to the Council of State
,
Le Parisien
underlined that, "
behind this case, an intense political battle is also being played out
", the minister's entourage warning that if the law, in the current state of things, did not allow him to expel a preacher of hatred, Gérald Darmanin would not hesitate to propose a "
change in the legislation to allow this expulsion
".
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