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On the front page of the press, the standoff between Brussels and AstraZeneca, who mutually reject the responsibility for the delay in the delivery of vaccines against Covid-19.
According to
Les Echos
, the Anglo-Swedish laboratory maintains that the contract with the European Union does not guarantee a specific number of vaccines to be delivered by the end of March, while Brussels assures the contrary and asserts that UK factories are to be involved in producing vaccines for the continent, not just the UK.
Anyway, this disagreement has the unfortunate consequence of immediately delaying the vaccination campaign in Europe, and particularly in France.
And it also has the consequence of reviving tensions between the British and Europeans, after Brexit.
“Wait your turn!
The selfish European Union wants OUR vaccines ”, rants the very Europhobic
Daily Express
, who claims the UK "has ordered desperate EU leaders to line up and wait their turn, after Brussels tried to divert UK-made vaccines."
"The vaccine war", headlines
The Spectator
, where Morten Morland's drawing shows Prime Minister Boris Johnson entrenched behind his doses and syringes facing Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron.
According to the conservative journal, vaccination "is always a race against time" and if it causes "competition between nations", this competition has the advantage of "stimulating innovation or, at least, provoking a reflection on what did not work in the distribution of vaccines in Europe ”.
What hasn't worked since the jasmine revolution ten years ago?
In Tunisia, violent demonstrations continue to shake the country, against a backdrop of social and political crisis.
The approval, Tuesday, by the parliament, of the reshuffle of the government, only fueled a little more the tensions between the Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi, the head of state, Kaïs Saïed and the president of the parliament Rached Ghannouchi - that we all three find on the front page of the Arabic version of the newspaper
La Presse
, trying to avoid letting the Tunisian boat sink, each on his own.
A method that does not convince the newspaper: "Nobody will get away with it", warns
Assahafa
, who asks the Tunisian leaders to respond finally and above all to the demonstrators, who have been protesting for almost two weeks now against social inequalities and violence policewomen.
Demonstrations also in Lebanon, especially in Tripoli, in the north of the country, against health restrictions and the economic crisis.
In this city which was already one of the poorest in Lebanon before the epidemic, residents say they are suffocating since the last confinement, which deprives many of them of any income.
Anger which further degenerated last night, according to
L'Orient Le Jour
- which speaks of dozens of wounded, including within the police.
The violence of these demonstrations is worrying beyond Lebanese borders, in particular Amnesty International.
According to
Le Figaro
, the human rights NGO calls on France to suspend its arms sales to Lebanon, on the grounds that tear gas canisters, rubber bullets and French-made grenade launchers are used by security forces to suppress demonstrations and "commit serious human rights violations".
In France, a parliamentary commission of inquiry on the maintenance of order, calls for a drastic limitation of the use of the LBD, the launcher of defense balls.
This so-called "intermediate force" weapon, which propels rubber bullets at high speed, had been used a lot during the mobilizations of yellow vests, causing about twenty outbursts, recalls
Le Monde
, and their ban in demonstrations is requested for several months by several NGOs defending human rights.
Without going that far, the authors of this report believe that recourse to LBDs should be reserved for the most extreme cases, such as the risk of riot.
We do not leave each other on this.
See you tomorrow without looking at the Telegram, which looks back on the “incredible scenario” of the Vendée Globe, finally won by Yannick Bestaven, who crossed the finish line in third position.
The first to do so was Charlie Dalin, but Yannick Bestaven benefited from compensation for being sidetracked to help his competitor Kevin Escoffier, according to
Le Télégramme
.
Yannick Bestaven, who had these words on his arrival: “I have the impression of living a dream, of hallucinating.
We go from total solitude to partying.
I don't yet realize what's going on.
It's a childhood dream ”.
Yes, despite everything, you have to dream.
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