Libya: "Egypt ready to cross the Rubicon"

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In the press, this 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, among others - 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, and that of the United States. "Cairo has the right to ensure its security and to defend its borders", pleads the newspaper, with reference to the coastal city of Sirte, which is still under the control of Marshal Haftar, and which is a strategic lock towards the is from Libya, and the Egyptian border. "In Libya, the specter of an Egyptian intervention takes shape": the Lebanese dailyOrient Le Jour evokes "Egypt's temptation to cross the Rubicon", in particular since the conclusion, last November, of a maritime agreement between the government of Fayez el-Sarraj and Turkey, which allows Ankara to 'extend its maritime borders in violation of international law, to explore new hydrocarbon deposits,' a plan that thwarts Egyptian plans in the Mediterranean '.

The Libyan crisis worries many neighboring countries, starting with Tunisia, whose President Kaïs Saïed begins today a two-day visit to France. On the menu of this first official trip 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 crisis- 19, according to La Presse . Regarding 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 pass 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 transmitted its proposals to the government yesterday. French people drawn to find solutions to the climate crisis want to see them brought 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, while employers already denounce "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": the newspaper specifies that the president will speak on June 29 on these questions.

In France, still, cinemas reopen their doors today, after 100 days of closure. Finally "light for dark rooms": La Croix reports both the optimism and the doubts of the operators, who are worried that after two months of confinement and the return of sunny days, the French don't rush into theaters. Between the resumption of interrupted films and the novelties, the public will in any case be spoiled for choice. According to 20 minutes , around forty films will be on screens today.

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