In the press - Emmanuel Macron: "I will not change my law because it shocks elsewhere"

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On the front page of the press, the trade agreement concluded yesterday between China and 14 countries in Asia and the Pacific, after eight years of negotiations.

"A historic victory for multilateralism and free trade":

specifies that this agreement concerns the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, but also Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

An XXL agreement, "the most important ever concluded so far", trumpets the official Chinese daily - which sees in its conclusion "the proof of the increasing marginalization of the United States".

"A historic agreement and a victory for free trade":

, the British daily newspaper, announces the creation of a "gigantic free trade area representing more than two billion inhabitants and 30% of world GDP" .

The French newspaper

, meanwhile, evokes an agreement that allows Beijing "to drive a wedge into the logic of the blocs and into the American pivotal strategy towards the East, started under Barack Obama" - an agreement whose idea emerged in 2012, and which was thought of as a response to the transpacific treaty launched by the United States ", before it was scuttled by Donald Trump, just after taking office".

Donald Trump, who continues to refuse to concede victory to Joe Biden.

The president still claims to be a victim of "electoral fraud" and that he "concedes nothing" to his Democratic opponent - a refusal to recognize his defeat which worries the

a little more every day

, alarmed at the consequences of this attitude on unfolding of the next two months, the duration of the transition with the future Biden Administration, prevented from getting to work, preparing its fight against the coronavirus, and starting to manage national security.

“Damn, two months!”: In France, Donald Trump's “blatant denial” also alarms

, anxious to see his “white-hot” supporters and Republican Party officials continue to “deny the obvious”.

It is in this context that the US Secretary of State is due to meet with President Emmanuel Macron today.

According to

, this interview should be "short enough", so that Mike Pompeo is received "with dignity, but without adding unnecessarily".

The newspaper explains that France has admittedly accepted to receive at its request "this very zealous faithful of Donald Trump, the first to support him in his stubbornness in refusing to recognize his defeat", but that she finds herself "embarrassed in the backs" faced with this "diplomatic puzzle".

In the diplomacy section, always.

In an interview with the magazine

, Emmanuel Macron returns to another angry subject: the lack of international support received, according to him, by France after the assassination of Samuel Paty - this professor who had mentioned in class cartoons of Muhammad.

In this interview, the president notes that "5 years ago, when we killed those who made caricatures (in the weekly Charlie Hebdo), the whole world marched in Paris and defended these rights", but this time , “Many condolences were modest”.

"I am for the respect of cultures, of civilizations, but I am not going to change my law because it shocks elsewhere", he concludes.

In France, again, Catholics gathered again yesterday in front of churches to ask for the authorization of masses, prohibited during confinement - like all religious celebrations.

In Nantes, in particular, nearly 300 people found themselves in the rain to ask for the return of Sunday masses - a demonstration authorized but which did not have the support of the diocese, according to

.

Asked by

, a faithful argued: “the message sent by the State is that it is more essential to go and buy DIY tools (DIY stores have received authorization to remain open), than to prepare his salvation is contempt ”.

According to the newspaper, an appointment was set this morning "to assess the sanitary conditions under which a resumption of worship would be possible" between the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, and those responsible for all religions.

An appointment where the president of the episcopate should find himself isolated, since only the Catholic Church asks for the lifting of the ban on masses.

The other cults, Judaism, Orthodoxy, Protestantism, Islam and Buddhism, will wait until the end of confinement to resume public celebrations.

We do not leave each other on this.

Finally, I suggest you take a look at the

, which reports that Kakapo, the largest and oldest parrot in the world, was named "bird of the year 2020" in New Zealand, where he had previously done. around the country, to raise awareness of the fate of its species, threatened by predators.

We learn, in passing, that the beast had already achieved world fame in 2009, after trying to mate with the head of a zoologist during the filming of a documentary.

The video of the incident - and the scientist's comment: "He's really going!"

- had recorded, at the time, more than 18 million views ...

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