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On the front page of the press, yesterday's unanimous decision of the American Supreme Court not to exclude Donald Trump from the Republican primaries.
Despite his role in the insurrection of January 6, 2021, the highest court in the United States considers that the ex-president has the right to participate in the campaign for the Republican nomination - an "unsurprising" decision, after
The Wall Street Journal
, which speaks of a "victory of the Constitution over partisan laws".
“The presidential race must be decided by voters, and not by supporters abusing the law to exclude candidates from the polls,” asserts the newspaper.
Same verdict, from the
Washington Post
, which believes that "the Supreme Court made the right choice in deciding to keep Donald Trump's name on the ballots", and that "the only way to prevent his return remains clear : vote. If this decision "dispels the uncertainty" around the Republican primaries, it does not calm the political climate across the Atlantic: according to
The New York Times
, the challenges to the candidacy of Donald Trump, initiated in particular by Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, would have only "reinforced partisan divisions and angered Republicans, who view these lawsuits as undemocratic."
This decision, on the eve of "Super Tuesday", seems to open an avenue for Donald Trump, which arouses the concern of part of the European press.
“SuperTrump”, headlines the Italian communist newspaper
Il Manifesto
, in reference to the legendary British group Supertramp.
The Belgian newspaper
Le Soir
announces, for its part, "a great week for Trump", in a "presidential campaign overheating and more polarized than ever", while the French newspaper La
Croix
sees him animated by a "spirit of revenge" , and invites Europeans to take advantage of "the long sequence of eight months of presidential campaign in the United States, to think about (their) own objectives": "Whoever the next guest of the White House is, the distance between the two shores of the Atlantic could deepen (and) we must prepare for it,” warns the newspaper.
Also in the press is Emmanuel Macron's visit today to the Czech Republic, to sell nuclear reactors and discuss Ukraine.
On this occasion, the president returned, for the first time, to his statements on a possible sending of troops to Ukraine.
In an interview with the Czech newspaper
Pravo
, cited by
Le Figaro
, Emmanuel Macron says he refuses to enter "into a logic of escalation" with Russia.
The head of state would also have supported the Czech president's initiative to buy ammunition for Ukraine outside the European Union, according to
Le Temps
.
The Swiss newspaper reports that Petr Pavel claims that nearly 800,000 shells "could be quickly purchased and rerouted to Ukraine", possibly from South Africa, India, South Korea or Turkey.
Petr Pavel knows what he is talking about, since he was chief of the Czech General Staff, then president of the NATO military command, until 2018.
Les Echos
tells how he built on this past military "to present himself as the man for the job", during the 2023 presidential election, by highlighting "his resolutely Atlanticist and Europhile positions".
In the United States, the Biden Administration's energy transition projects are denounced by several Native American leaders.
The Washington Post
reports how the White House's efforts to "restore the federal government's relationship with indigenous peoples" "conflict with another priority of the Biden Administration": the acceleration of several essential projects for the transition energy, to achieve 100% clean electricity production by 2035. The newspaper notably reports a $10 billion mega-project, called SunZia, whose ambition is to transport clean electricity produced in enormous wind farms, from New Mexico to more populated areas, such as California, via hundreds of kilometers of high-voltage lines crossing several indigenous territories, notably in southern Arizona, where several tribes denounce the destruction of hitherto intact “ancestral” landscapes and ask the courts to stop the work.
What
Le Monde
calls "the rush towards the wind", in reference to "the gold rush", also does a lot of damage in Brazil, particularly in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, in the north-east of country, where half of the country's wind farms are currently concentrated and where projects continue to multiply.
In an investigation in partnership with the Brazilian media "Reporter Brasil", the newspaper reveals how this rapid development causes both environmental and social damage, involving several French groups, including the Voltalia group, owned by the Mulliez family.
These groups would benefit from the lack of regulation of the sector in Brazil.
Le Monde recounts the hellish daily life of the inhabitants of Parazinho, a small rural town of 5,200 inhabitants, where "the tropical calm suddenly stopped in 2015", after the installation of 15 100-meter wind turbines with 49-meter blades. , which now surround the thirty small houses of this village, where some of these wind turbines are located only 150 meters from the homes.
We won't leave each other on this.
Without any transition, I offer you a look at
Matin
suisse, which reports a rather surprising request from the municipality of Dublin, the Irish capital.
She asks tourists to stop touching the breasts of a statue - a tradition deemed "misogynistic" and which also damages the work.
This statue is that of Molly Malone, who is not a historical character, but a figure from Dublin folklore, heroine of a famous song.
According to legend, touching Molly Malone's chest would bring seven years of happiness, hence the mania among tourists to have their photo taken groping the statue's cleavage.
For the moment, no fines are planned, but wandering hands could well be punished in the future...
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