In China, the time is Valentine's Day. But in times of coronavirus, Cupid will not have an easy task, being also subject to temperature control. If the China Daily has chosen a certain lightness, the Global Times pays tribute to all the lovers among the healthcare workers who will be hand in hand on the frontline of the epidemic. In France, Le Parisien observes that everyone is addicted to dating sites. Sixteen million French people have already tested. A phenomenon that particularly appeals to women and those over 50.
In the United Kingdom, the surprise resignation of Sajid Javid - pushed towards the exit - had the effect of a thunderclap. The British press castigates the "brutal Boris Jonhson", now described as "iron man" by the Daily Express . Sajid Javid refused the conditions linked to his continuation which forced him to separate from all his advisers and replace them with a group led from the cabinet of Boris Johnson. For the Daily Mirror , Dominic Cummings is the one who pulls the strings of this reshuffle presented as "a bloodbath". This special adviser to the Prime Minister is behind "the first crisis of Boris Jonhson", headlines La Vanguardia . The Catalan newspaper believes it has detected a "British Rasputin" out of obscurity in favor of Brexit who was only a simple advisor to the Ministry of Education ...
In France, the liberal press welcomes the decline in unemployment in France by 0.7 points last year to settle at 8.1% of the working population. The newspaper Les Echos estimates that "Emmanuel Macron is comforted by the fall in unemployment". The newspaper l'Opinion welcomes the end of unemployment fatalism, while Le Figaro wonders: why has unemployment been at its lowest for 12 years? The credit goes, according to Gaëtan de Capèle, to a "supply policy initiated by Nicolas Sarkozy, extended by François Hollande and amplified by Emmanuel Macron".
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