"Rusty, angry and disconnected." The baptism of fire by Michael Bloomberg turned to failure despite its billions, sums up Politico . During his first debate against the other contenders for the nomination of the Democratic party, the billionaire was the target of innumerable attacks of his rivals. According to the American site, the vulnerabilities of a candidacy based on television spots and advertisements appeared in broad daylight live on television. A campaign waged through his personal fortune, misogynist comments, a controversial security policy when he was mayor of New York, the New York Times spells the arrows fired by his rivals.

For its part, the European press, and in particular the French press, fears this extraordinary European summit devoted to the European budget, the first post-Brexit, which opens Thursday. La Libre Belgique devotes its front page to this first major test for the chairman of the board, Charles Michel. It must try to adopt nearly 1,100 billion euros of budget over seven years or 1.074% of European gross national income. But the time has come to settle scores, warns Liberation , between two camps: on the one hand, the rich selfish people who want to cut into the Community budget - in the first rank, Germany but also Austria, Denmark, the Countries Bas and Sweden - and on the other, those who push to increase it in order to develop a European project including France.

Les Echos anticipates a "summit to reconcile the irreconcilable" and a "battle for patronage dividends", the countries of the East clinging to their cohesion funds while other countries cling to the common agricultural policy (CAP) . A battle that promises to be complicated because between Paris and Berlin, writes Le Temps in its editorial, the hour is at "the urgency of a European project". The Swiss newspaper believes that the budget is European ambition: "Without a budgetary strike force, Europe will find itself ill-equipped in the face of Chinese and American technological offensives".

In this context, Paris and Berlin highlight their mergers. The future Franco-German fighter plane will take another crucial step on Thursday, headlines Les Échos . France will award a first study contract of 150 million euros to develop a flight demonstrator in 2025.

The 70th edition of the Berlin Film Festival opens Thursday against a backdrop of controversy. La Croix returns to the revelations concerning its founder in 1951, Alfred Bauer. Die Zeit described him in late January as a studious member of the SA, the Nazi paramilitary organization. This year, the award bearing his name since 1987 has been suspended.

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