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What will be the consequences of the protest against the pension reform? For the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the France is threatened withparalysis with the multiplication of sectors on strike (energy, transport, education, etc.). The German newspaper observes that the protest of the last few days is no longer only about pensions but also about the link between the French and the government, a broken link that could undermine any hint of future reform. Hence the question posed by The Independent: "Can Emmanuel Macron survive a wider protest movement?" The British newspaper said it was worried that a French president would be "stubborn" and "deaf" to protests, with the risk that anger could be transformed at the ballot box by a victory for the far right in the years to come. Seen from Quebec, this "battle of pensions" sounds like a warning for Le Devoir. "There is the right to demonstrate... and also that of being heard." "To bury his head in the sand, Emmanuel Macron is missing an opportunity to set an example in the face of illiberal regimes that he claims to be fighting."
In this context, King Charles III will arrive in Paris on Sunday evening for a three-day state visit. A visit that turns into a "puzzle", writes Le Parisien. Descent of the Champs-Élysées, travel to Bordeaux, crowd baths, "everything can still move to avoid any overflow". "It would be politically and diplomatically devastating for the France," said a person close to the French president. It is above all the symbol of the state dinner in Versailles that crystallizes all the tensions. "No red carpet for King Charles III," writes the Guardian in reference to the strike of the staff of the national furniture. "Months of preparation to get to this point," writes the very Francophile Stephen Clarke. "They want to go to Versailles even though it reminds us of 1789." The sting is mainly directed against the French president, accused by some of behaving like a republican monarch. With all these uncertainties, is it really necessary to maintain the visit, wonders The Daily Beast. "Maybe we should think twice, majestically," wrote the British correspondent of the American newspaper.
The other major issue of the week is the publication of the 6th IPCC report on global warming. Among the issues raised is the issue of water becoming scarce in some parts of the world. In France, the use of mega-basins used in agriculture is fuelling tensions because they are fed by groundwater, at an already very low level this year. Illustration in the Deux-Sèvres, in a report to read in La Croix. How to make agriculture more responsible? What happens when there is no more water? "The exodus," writes Libération through a report in Ethiopia, which follows herders in the south of the country. "It started three years ago," says one of them. "Not a drop of rain", "We kept moving until there was nothing left anywhere". Usually, this region experiences regular rainy seasons, but global warming has turned everything upside down. In this area, 85% of the population lived directly from livestock.
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