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On the front page of the press, the examination, Monday, March 20, in the National Assembly, of the two motions of censure filed against the government, in reaction to the recourse to 49.3 on pension reform.

Tabled by the National Rally and the independents of the Liot group, do these motions have a chance of succeeding? According to L'Humanité, the government would be "in the hot seat" and Elisabeth Borne and Emmanuel Macron "under the threat of a stinging disavowal". If the motion of the RN has almost no chance of being adopted, that of the group Freedoms, Independents, Overseas and Territory (Liot), on the other hand, "worries the government more", according to Le Figaro, which specifies that this motion is also supported by the Nupes and part of the Republicans. "An alliance of opposites", criticized by the newspaper, very upset in the face of the divisions of LR. If the president of the group, Olivier Marleix, hammers that associating with the far left "makes no sense", several LR deputies say they are "ready to vote for censure", like the deputy of Moselle Fabien Di Filippo, a close friend of Laurent Wauquiez, who says he is "against the unbearable denial of democracy" that constitutes the use of 49.3.

Olivier Marleix on the motion of censure: "Associate ourselves with the far left would make no sense"

For the president of the LR deputies, the right will have more time to build common positions on the other texts to come. https://t.co/jToNqyxFaO

— Le Figaro (@Le_Figaro) March 20, 2023

The French press is already projecting itself into the post-motion of censure. The free 20 minutes believes that Elisabeth Borne "should save her head", but that it is "not sure" that her government "remains in place for a long time". Regarding the opposition to the pension reform, the economic daily Les Échos evokes "the government's obsession with a return to a movement of the Yellow Vests type" and worries about the risk of "radicalization" of the movement. In an interview with Libération, Laurent Berger, the boss of the CFDT, calls, in any case, for the continuation of the mobilization and asks Emmanuel Macron not to promulgate the law, even in case of rejection of the motions of censure. "This is not a failure, but a shipwreck," the union leader said.

On the front page of @Libe Monday: Pension reform: "It's not a failure, it's a shipwreck"

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— Libération (@libe) March 19, 2023

The social and political crisis in France is still closely scrutinized by the foreign press. In the United Kingdom, The Financial Times says that the "mess" around the pension reform was "predictable", but regrets that Emmanuel Macron has resorted to 49.3, rather than submitting the text to the vote of MPs. The Spanish newspaper El Pais already sees the president "weakened for the rest of his mandate" and facing a "permanent malaise in the street", until the end of his five-year term. Confronted, also, with the risk of finding himself "like Barack Obama", the president "who gave the keys to the White House to Donald Trump", "like the one who gave the keys (of the Elysee) to Marine Le Pen".

#Portada | Joven y precario, el nuevo perfil del español que se siente solo; Macron afronta su peor crisis con la calle en tensión; Trump dice que será detenido el martes y llama a la protesta, en EL PAÍS este domingo 19 de marzo

🔗 https://t.co/dxID0xSAfq pic.twitter.com/PjP9Udrs7c

— EL PAÍS (@el_pais) March 19, 2023

In the press, too, the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the American invasion of Iraq. Many analyses and comments are published on this subject in the international press. I have simply retained for you the op-ed by the Iraqi poet and novelist Sinan Antoon in The Guardian, a text entitled "A million deaths later, I cannot forgive what American terrorism has done to my country, Iraq". He sums up the mindset of many of his compatriots: "The 'new Iraq' promised by warmongers brought neither Starbucks nor start-ups, but car bombs, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group," writes Sinan Antoon.

THe original title was:A million lives later: #American_Terrorism and Iraqi Lives
I cannot forgive what American terrorism did to my country, #Iraq | Sinan Antoon https://t.co/ufITFJkhXl

— Sinan Antoon سنان أنطون (@sinanantoon) March 19, 2023

The indelible scars of the American intervention, which is also mentioned in a report in the newspaper La Croix, in Fallujah. This city west of Baghdad has experienced al-Qaeda and Daesh, but it is the deluge of American bombs with white phosphorus and depleted uranium, which has made this city a laboratory of horror. Twenty years after the American invasion, many malformed babies are still being born there, and cancer cases have exploded. If Washington has finally acknowledged the use of white phosphorus and depleted uranium weapons on Fallujah, the US authorities still deny that these weapons can cause such effects on the population. The newspaper's special envoy recalls that some components of depleted uranium have a half-life equal to 4.5 billion years. "The fear is therefore great that Fallujah and its people will be contaminated for eternity."

20 years later, the deluge of US white phosphorus and uranium bombs still has consequences: many malformed babies are being born in Iraq.https://t.co/7K6gOLZv1B

— La Croix (@LaCroix) March 20, 2023

We do not leave each other on that. On the occasion of the Day of Happiness, Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France asked philosophers to give him some tips to find it, to feel better on a daily basis. For Fabrice Midal, author of "Everything that prevents us from being happy and what we need to know to be happy", it would be above all a question of not hesitating to break one's loneliness, to go to others and recognize that we love them.

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