While the scientific council announces that "the epidemic is under control in France", the government is preparing the response to the arrival of an unprecedented economic crisis. Will young people, on the front line facing unemployment, be the sacrificed generation of the Covid-19?
"I had a permanent contract and the confinement shook everything": the daily Liberation collected the word of these young people, the first victims of unemployment and whose horizon has suddenly darkened. What future does France reserve for its 700,000 new graduates arriving on the job market, and for those under 25 already looking for a job? At a meeting Thursday at the Élysée with social partners, Emmanuel Macron and the government announced the first measures to stem the precariousness of youth.
To meet the challenge of employment and the aftermath, Emmanuel Macron must "reinvent himself without denying himself", believes Le Figaro. More than an act III, a new era of marcronism is brewing. The newspaper lays out the agenda of a president who consults to set the course for the post-crisis period and which will be revealed after the second round of municipal elections on June 28.
Still according to Le Figaro , the head of state will not go back on the achievements of the beginning of the mandate, such as the abolition of wealth tax or the reform of the labor market. The future watchword will be: sovereignty and decentralization, predicts the daily.
In the United States, to the economic crisis is added a political crisis with the "mutiny of military leaders", according to the title of the Parisian .
Languages have been loosening there for several days. Several senior officers contest President Donald Trump's policy, including his threat to deploy federal forces in the country in the wake of the riots sparked by the George Floyd affair. The current Minister of Defense, Mark Esper, like one of these predecessors, James Mattis, openly contested this possibility, even accusing Donald Trump of wanting to divide America.
A "bond between Donald Trump and the army which could well dissolve with the test of the street", warns the New York Times . If during the first three years of his mandate, the generals tolerated a president with threatening diplomacy, it is because they approved of the increase in military spending. But today, warns the newspaper, "this tolerance has frayed".
A very critical American press also on the occasion of the anniversary of the massacre of Chinese students in Tiananmen Square in 1989. The cartoonist Bill Bramhall of the New York Daily News finds himself imagining a Donald Trump at the head of an army of tanks rushing at peaceful American citizens.
Seen from China ... not a word about Tiananmen in the official press, but there too, Donald Trump is adding fuel to the fire. The China Daily represents Donald Trump trying to ignite the semi-autonomous territory of Hong Kong, while the America house is burning…
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