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On the front page of the press, the decision of France, Spain and Italy to suspend AstraZeneca's vaccine against Covid-19, in the wake of a dozen other European countries, including 'Germany.
"Mario Draghi stops the vaccine, without explaining why", according to
Il Fatto Quotidiano
, which shows the president of the Italian council giant vial of serum in hand.
According to the newspaper, the Italian government is talking about a "temporary and precautionary suspension, pending the opinion of the European Medicines Agency", scheduled for Thursday.
"Who's afraid of AstraZeneca?"
: the daily
Libero
reports cases of blood clots, although no link has yet been established between these cases of thrombosis and the vaccine.
According to
Le Parisien / Today in France
, there is a "doubt", and this doubt is presented as "a new blow" for the vaccine campaign, of which the AstraZeneca is one of the three pillars in France , with Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
Liberation
fears, him, that the reversal on the Anglo-Swedish serum "further weakens the confidence" of the French towards vaccines.
"Astracadabrantesque", headlines the newspaper, which wonders if it is an "irrational runaway", a "precautionary principle taken to the extreme" or a "collective psychosis", reminding him also that for the moment, "no link has been proven between the vaccine and the problems of thrombosis".
"Nothing, nada, niente, nothing, nichts".
Other European countries have also chosen to continue their vaccination campaign with AstraZeneca, including Belgium.
"Astrazenechaos": "Belgium has chosen not to give in to panic", according to
Le Soir
, which is concerned to see "the uniqueness of European action undermined by the domino effect".
"After every man for himself for the borders, it is every man for himself in the management of the vaccine risk", regrets the newspaper, by evoking "a difficult dilemma for the political authorities".
In the United Kingdom, where the authorities have widely resorted to the Oxford vaccine, the attitude of Europeans baffles the British dailies: "What a shame! But what is the European Union playing!", Chokes the very Europhobic
Daily Express
.
The Guardian is
trying to understand European caution.
"The evidence for side effects is scant, but governments must take into account factors beyond science alone," said the newspaper, which notes that the authorities are also trying to keep their public opinions, quick to question the real intentions of the giants of the pharmaceutical industry.
The Guardian
also notes that it is "easier" for Europeans, who do not have many stocks of AstraZeneca, unlike the United Kingdom, to suspend their vaccination campaign.
Also on the front page, the Vatican's refusal to bless same-sex marriages.
La Croix
refers to a note published yesterday by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declaring "unlawful any form of blessing" tending to recognize homosexual unions.
A reminder that arouses "the anger and weariness" of the movements engaged in the accompaniment of homosexual Catholics.
According to the American television channel
CNN
, quoted by
Courrier International
, the Holy See explained its decision by the fact that homosexuality is a "choice" falling under "sin" - a statement "approved" by Pope Francis, however. "often praised" for its openness to the LGBTQ community.
In France, the national assembly yesterday voted for a text strengthening the protection of minors in the face of sexual violence.
Le Monde
reports that the deputies set at 15 years the age below which a child is considered non-consenting for a sexual act with an adult.
A threshold raised to 18 years in the event of incest.
Le Monde
, which also reports this morning the testimonies of eight women who denounce the past actions of the ex-star of the 8 pm, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, accused of having engaged in abuses of a dominant position ", "repeatedly." A young journalist, who had met him in the early 90s, remembers: "It was unthinkable not to go to the pan, but just as impossible to say.
I didn't say it.
I knew very well that if I said something, there was such an imbalance.
That I would be the whore and he the seducer ".
We do not leave each other on this.
The
Huffington Post
reports a controversy in Belgium which is not, this time, about vaccines, but about a song.
The site reports that the name of singer Annie Cordy was chosen to replace that of ex-king Leopold II, responsible for massacres during his colonial reign in Congo, to rename a tunnel in Brussels.
A priori, nothing serious, it seems, except that the choice of the name of the late Annie Cordy provokes the anger of some of her compatriots, who consider the lyrics of her song "Cho Ka Ka O" to be racist.
A song where the performer promises: "If you give me coconuts / I will give you my pineapples" ...
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