Jacques Serais 9:17 a.m., February 23, 2024
Every day on Europe 1's morning show, Jacques Serais scrutinizes and analyzes the day's press.
Today, CNews and the Council of State, “The Uprisings of the Earth” and the night of the Caesars.
Jacques SERAIS… You went through the newspapers for us…. And one article particularly piques your interest…
It is on page 8 of Le Figaro.
“At the Council of State, these “political” decisions which are controversial” headlines the daily…
A full page for an investigation which reveals the dark side of the highest administrative jurisdiction of our country….
Paule Gonzales takes us through the corridors of the Palais Royal…
Where senior officials took the decision to force Arcom - the audiovisual policeman - to tighten its control in terms of pluralism of opinions on the CNews channel.
And what is described is staggering.
That is to say Jacques?
A state councilor, who requests anonymity, makes the following observation about his colleagues:
“For a long time, our only compass was the defense of the State at all costs.
Today, certain young people - notably those who returned to Science Po when Richards Descoings was its director - defend more of a vision of the world ranging from the defense of minorities to that of the environment, including intersectionality. dear to wokism."
This same State Councilor goes so far as to speak of “a generational incomprehension between the oldest members of the institution and the youngest”.
They are “confident in progressivism like cherries in alcohol” reports this source at the heart of the reactor of the Supreme Administrative Court…
This is a worrying state of affairs that is being made there…
The Council of State's desire to gag CNews actually threatens all media...
This is what Master François-Henri Briard denounces in the columns of the daily newspaper.
For this "fine connoisseur of audiovisual law", this decision constitutes "a first step into a nightmarish, Orwellian and sanitized world, where all thoughts would be identified and monitored by public authorities."
This same Council of State which had annulled the decree dissolving the Earth Uprisings…
Yes you know, this environmentalist collective was at the origin of the demonstrations in Sainte-Soline where around forty gendarmes were injured….
The judges of the summary proceedings considered that the government's decision to dissolve them was “a serious attack on freedom of association”.
But this collective clearly still finds favor in the eyes of Emmanuel Macron, who invites them to the Salon de l'Agriculture...….
The President “invents the big unpacking” notes the newspaper L'Opinion.
“He has decided to make Porte de Versailles a sort of happening. If all the guests respond, the sequence risks turning into a fistfight”
This will not be the case since we have just learned that the FNSEA will not participate in any debate on site with the Head of State, despite the withdrawal of the invitation to the Earth Uprising.
Meanwhile, in Le Parisien, a former Prime Minister sends a Jacques postcard…
Page 8 of Le Parisien is not stamped… But it is signed.
Political journalist Olivier Beaumont recounts his journey in Edouard Philippe's luggage on Reunion Island.
The former tenant of Matignon is in shirt sleeves, boxing gloves on his hands and... He hits!
“We will not make French agriculture stronger by responding only to emergencies.
We will make it stronger by asking what we want to do with it in the next thirty years.
Today, we lack a national agricultural strategy.”
Yes, these words are indeed those of the former Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron.
And the missive is not only addressed to the President…
The mayor of Le Havre actually drops a few barbs at his rival - Norman like him - Bruno Le Maire, who, as a reminder, announced this week a savings plan of 10 billion euros.
“When I look at all the countries of the European Union, we are the one which takes the longest to return to a controlled budgetary situation” tackles Edouard Philippe.
"The real issue is that we have public policies that are expensive and don't work. Housing policy, for example, costs 40 billion, but it doesn't work."
The postcard could well remain a dead letter on the Bercy side.
It doesn't matter for Edouard Philippe who only wants one thing: the Elysée in 2027.
“Three years to prepare is short.”
he declares.
“I know where I’m going, that’s pretty thoughtful.”
Jacques, the press is also devoting significant space this morning to the war in Ukraine…
Tomorrow will be two years to the day since Russia invaded Ukraine...
The Parisian fears “the specter of an endless conflict”.
We must “give up nothing” insists Nicolas Charbonneau.
“Defeatism prohibited” presses Le Figaro…
"We have not done everything to support the Ukrainians, far from it. Invincibility is decreed. Europe faces an existential choice" analyzes Philippe Gélie in his editorial.
For Le Figaro, 2024 will be the year of the “clash of wills”.
“The fate of kyiv’s army depends on Western support and the mobilization of its population.”
But Opinion points to another conflict… “An information war” writes Jean-Dominique Merchet.
Moscow is using all means to convince Westerners to let go of Ukraine.
It is not without effect.
The liberal daily cites the Study of the European Council for International Relations: today, only "10% of respondents consider a Ukrainian victory likely, compared to 20% a Russian victory. This remains no less than 82% of French people still have a bad opinion of Russia."
according to the IFOP.
In the culture pages, at the end of the daily newspapers, completely different predictions are made... This is cinema...
The 49th César ceremony to follow live on Europe 1 and unencrypted on Canal +... “The Césars against a backdrop of MeToo storm” headlines Le Parisien for whom “the subject of sexual and sexist violence will undoubtedly be widely discussed, particularly through a joke from Judith Godrèche.”
In the meantime, the daily newspapers are establishing their own rankings.
Le Parisien would thus award the César for best film to “Animal Kingdom” and that of best first film to “Scrapyard Dog” by Jean-Baptiste Durand.
For Le Figaro, it is “Anatomy of a Fall” which deserves the César for best film… And Cédric Kahn the César for best director for The Goldmann Trial…
Now it’s up to you… Start of the ceremony at 8:45 p.m.…