In the press - State visit of the Egyptian president: "France rolls out the red carpet to a dictator"

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On the front page of the press, the state visit to France of the Egyptian president, who today meets Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee.

Abdel Fattah al-Sissi's visit to Paris made the headlines of all the Egyptian press.

announces that the two leaders will discuss "strategic relations" between Egypt and France, and "regional affairs" in the Middle East.

specifies that these discussions will focus, in particular, on the situation in the Palestinian territories and the negotiations in Libya.

According to

, this state visit was prepared in advance by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian, who went to Cairo last month to call for "appeasement." », While France was the object of criticism in the Arab-Muslim world, after the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

According to the Lebanese daily, one of the challenges of the meeting between Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Emmanuel Macron will also be the “thorny” issue of human rights in Egypt, increasingly faced with the “systematic violation of fundamental liberties".

"A situation that risks making Paris' alliance with Cairo more and more cumbersome," according to the newspaper.

The visit of the Egyptian president to France is indeed criticized by several human rights NGOs.

"We are amazed that France is rolling out the red carpet for a dictator, while there are more than 60,000 prisoners of conscience today in Egypt", responded an official of the International Federation of Human Rights, quoted by

.

The Elysee ensures that Emmanuel Macron "will not fail to address this issue" but human rights defenders are calling for strong gestures and asking the president to "go from speech to action", by conditioning his military support to the release of political prisoners.

According to

, France is now ahead of the United States in arms sales to Egypt, which represented nearly 1.5 billion euros in 2017.

Emmanuel Macron, whose exchanges with the Citizen's Convention for the Climate have been strained in recent days.

The 150 citizens drawn by lot to propose measures intended to combat climate change fear that the president will finally give up keeping them in the arbitrations he must make this week.

Apprehensions caused by "the multiplication of setbacks" by Emmanuel Macron, according to

, which recalls that the president had promised to oppose only three "jokers", three "no", to the 149 proposals that would be made to him.

Has the president engaged in a game of liar poker?

"All this would undoubtedly be fun if the stake on the table was not the future of the planet", writes

.

Tensions also between the European Union and the United Kingdom, which are continuing their discussions today to try to avoid a Brexit without agreement.

After months and months of negotiations, there are only a few days left to find a solution, since this agreement - if there is agreement - will still have to be ratified by the British and European parliaments before January 1.

For the moment, many sticking points persist, in particular on fishing, which France says it is ready to defend by using its right of veto, according to

.

Is another lying poker game being played out?

In the United Kingdom,

asserts that European leaders, led by Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, are ready to reduce their demands to avoid a no-deal Brexit.

A scenario that the British Prime Minister says he does not fear, according to

,

which reports the latest threats from Boris Johnson: "There will be no agreement if the United Kingdom is prevented from regaining its full and entire sovereignty".

The European and international press has mobilized, through the Forbidden Stories collective, to continue the work of Mexican sisters and brothers murdered for their investigations into the drug cartels.

To show that "killing journalists will not kill articles", 60 journalists, notably from

, and from 25 countries, have joined forces to continue these investigations, which relate both to the cartels and their accomplices, which he it is about international trafficking, arms, money laundering or corruption.

Investigations that have caused the death of 119 journalists in 20 years in Mexico, where the assassination of Regina Martinez, in 2012, seems to have been the "prelude" to an "explosion" of this violence.

Regina Martinez, whose real sponsors of her assassination have never been identified, had notably accused, in her investigations, two governors of having allowed the cartels to take root in the state of Veracruz and denounced their looting of public funds .

We do not leave each other on this.

Before I tell you tomorrow, I suggest you take a look at the

, which reports that a candidate for next year's local elections in the state of Goa, southwest India, has made a A rather unusual electoral promise: he has undertaken, if elected, to make the nap compulsory between one and four in the afternoon.

Three hours of nap might be a bit much.

Especially since according to

, always, a quick nap, including at the office, can be enough to get back on your feet.

One study has even proven that "people find the same 'learning' abilities after a nap as after a good night's sleep."

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