On the front page of the press, Monday morning, threats by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi to intervene in Libya if the government of national unity continues its advance towards the east of the country.

Since the beginning of the month, forces loyal to the government of Tripoli, supported by Turkey, have accumulated victories against the troops of Marshal Haftar, who has benefited from the support of Egypt, in particular. Hence the warning of President Sissi, whose Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al-Youm assures that he has the support of "several Arab countries", including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as States -United. "Cairo has the right to ensure its security and to defend its borders", pleads the newspaper, referring here to the coastal city of Sirte, strategic lock towards the east of Libya and the Egyptian border, which is still under the control of Marshal Haftar's men.

"In Libya, the specter of an Egyptian intervention is taking shape," warns L'Orient-Le Jour . The Lebanese daily talks about "the temptation of Egypt to cross the Rubicon", especially since the conclusion, last November, of the maritime agreement concluded between the government of Fayez el-Sarraj and Turkey. It allows Ankara to extend its maritime borders, in violation of international law, to explore new hydrocarbon deposits, and "which thwarts Egyptian plans in the Mediterranean".

The neighboring Libyan crisis worries many neighboring countries, starting with Tunisia, whose President Kaïs Saïed began a two-day visit to France on Monday 22 June. On the menu of this first official visit of the Tunisian president to a western country there is, precisely, the Libyan file. But also the financial support of France, Tunisia's first economic partner, to get out of the Covid-19 crisis, according to La Presse . With regard to recent controversies over France's colonial past, the Tunisian daily warns that Kaïs Saïed will not be "the messenger of populist debates on colonial crimes": "The head of state does not seem willing to spend his time on futile questions belonging to the past and it is a relation of equal to equal and equitable that Kaïs Saïed wants to materialize "announces the newspaper.

In France, the Citizen's Climate Convention sent its proposals to the government on Sunday. French people drawn to find solutions to the climate crisis want to see them carried by the government or parliamentarians, but not by referendum, according to Les Echos , who also report "differences with the executive on the issues" to ask the French. For its part, employers already denounced "a vision of ecology more punitive than incentive". Is consensus on the fight against global warming impossible?

"The ball is now in the government's court", with a majority there again extremely divided, according to Liberation . "Macron to participate", defies the newspaper, which specifies that the president will speak on June 29 on these questions.

Still in France, cinemas reopen on Monday, after 100 days of closure. Finally "light for dark rooms", for La Croix , which reports both the optimism and the doubts of the exhibitors. The latter are concerned that after two months of confinement and with the return of sunny days, the French do not rush into the rooms. However, between the resumptions of interrupted films and the novelties, the public will be spoiled for choice: according to 20 Minutes , around forty films will be on screens today.

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