In the press - "Lebanon, justice in the wrong direction"

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On the front page of the French press this morning: the examination, Tuesday, in the Senate, of the bill for the acceleration of nuclear power, to facilitate, in particular, the construction of new reactors.

After the bill on the acceleration of renewable energies, the government wants to do the same with nuclear power, according to the Minister for Energy Transition, who defends her text in

.

According to Agnès Pannier-Runacher, achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 means both reducing energy consumption and producing much more of it – hence the revival of nuclear power, also presented as the "key" to independence. French energy.

“We cannot waste a minute to produce more,” pleads the minister, who will have to rely, in particular, on the Communists, to have her text adopted.

The latter and some socialists should support the bill, while environmentalists and "rebellious" want 100% renewable energy and the exit from nuclear power.

But

warns that the ambitions displayed by the government risk colliding with the realities of an aging nuclear fleet and the state of a sector "weakened", for years, by "the loss of industrial skills".

L'Humanité from Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at newsagents and from this evening 10 p.m. on the computer.

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While the government is working on nuclear power, Emmanuel Macron is active on the diplomatic scene.

indicates that the president will be in Barcelona on Thursday to sign a bilateral friendship treaty with Spain, before celebrating, three days later, the 60ᵉ anniversary of the Élysée treaty signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer - a " diplomatic feast (which) risks being tainted by a new wave of social unrest", according to the British daily, which reports criticism, in France, on the fact that the president would take "a huge risk by pressing for a reform" whose urgency would not be proven.

"But Macron aims to be the leader who put France back to work and stopped its slide into the abyss of budget deficits," the newspaper explains.

Emmanuel Macron, who will perhaps console himself for his internal difficulties by looking across the Channel, to the United Kingdom, where Rishi Sunak is facing social unrest unprecedented since the Thatcher years, hence the drawing by Christian Adams which shows the Prime Minister at his desk facing a calendar where every day turns out to be the most depressing day of the year,

, etc.

France and the United Kingdom, or "Entente Cordiale", version 2023: the two countries are currently going through similar social movements, with the same demands, against inflation and austerity, in a drawing by Patrick Blower, posted on

.

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— Christian Adams (@Adamstoon1) January 16, 2023

In Lebanon, European magistrates arrived on Monday to investigate the actions of the governor of the central bank.

Nicknamed "the Lebanese Madoff" by a World Bank report, at the head of the central bank for three decades, Riad Salamé claims to have nothing to reproach himself for, while he is the subject of legal proceedings in "at least six European countries", according to

.

The newspaper evokes the "still hypothetical" cooperation of Lebanon, where certain media have also relayed accusations of undermining national sovereignty.

A lack of goodwill attributed by Karim Bitar to the "sprawling protection relay" which Riad Salamé would always have in Lebanon.

"He is the man who knows too much", declares this researcher, who affirms that the governor "ended up being let go by France", after Emmanuel Macron "became aware of the extent of the alleged financial embezzlement ".

If Riad Salamé has never been worried by the authorities of his country, William Noun, he was briefly arrested last week, after threatening to "blow up the courthouse" in Beirut.

tells how this brother of one of the victims of the gigantic explosion which destroyed entire districts of the Lebanese capital in 2020, became the hero of the Lebanese press.

She hailed her anger, deemed "healthy" against a power that would do everything to protect itself from prosecution.

"William Noun has become the 'symbol' of this contradictory Lebanese justice. The one that detains the relatives of the victims and releases the political and security officials involved in the affair" of the explosions in Beirut, denounced in particular

.

Buongiorno!

Ecco the prima pagina di oggi, 17/01/2023.

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— La Stampa (@LaStampa) January 17, 2023

A look, finally, at the Italian press, which returns to the arrest, Monday, in Sicily of Matteo Messina Denaro, the most wanted mafioso in the country for thirty years.

The images of the arrest of the "last godfather" make the front page of almost all Italian daily newspapers, including

, which states that Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested while he was in a clinic where he was being treated, under an assumed name, for colon cancer.

The mafia boss steals the show from actress Gina Lollobrigida, who died Monday at the age of 95 and relegated to the background this morning.

"The worst murderer": according to

, Matteo Messina Denaro had boasted, in the past, of being able to "fill a cemetery" with all his victims - again, the godfather eclipses Gina Lollobrigida.

But the actress receives all the honors she deserves from Le

.

"Gina Lollobrigida, an Italian epic": "It is said in the Peninsula that Gina is 'the best thing that has happened since the invention of spaghetti'", writes the Swiss daily nicely.

Beautiful tribute, too, from the Italian Paulo Callieri to the one who embodied Pauline Borghèse, the Queen of Sheba and Esmeralda, the heroine of Notre-Dame de Paris, in a drawing showing her great love, Quasimodo, waiting for her in paradise .

A drawing published by

.

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