France. “Favelas on the edge of the territory”: why summer crystallizes tensions between mayors and travelers
The summer soap opera plays its new episode every year. Laneuvelotte (Meurthe-et-Moselle), Yssingeaux (Haute-Loire), Rumilly (Haute-Savoie), Mothern (Bas-Rhin)… The scene changes almost every day, the cast does not move: travelers looking to settle in on…
Cameroon. After 73 days of absence, Paul Biya returns to the presidential palace
Paul Biya, president of Cameroon since 1982 and oldest head of state in the world, returned Thursday evening to Yaoundé after more than two months of absence, which reignited a lively controversy in the country regarding his ability to lead the country.…
Besançon. Want to give your point of view on what the city is doing?
The name could be less forbidding but it is like this: the participatory democracy body of Grand Besançon Métropole is called “participative development council” (CDP). The structure can have up to 150 members, including residents of the city,…
Presidential election 2027. French debt: Le Pen denounces “record rates” and the “record” of macronism
The National Rally’s presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, was alarmed on Wednesday by the “record rates” of French debt, the highest in almost twenty years, and promised to “clean out the Augean stables” of public finances…
Company. The law on assisted dying promulgated by Emmanuel Macron
The law creating a right to assistance in dying was published Wednesday in Official Journal in the wake of its promulgation by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, after several years of debate. This text, validated by the Constitutional…
Disappearance. Yvette Roudy, former socialist minister of women’s rights, died at 97
Yvette Roudy died this Tuesday at the age of 97. Feminist activist, European socialist MP and first Minister of Women’s Rights, she considered feminism and socialism as “inseparable” struggles. Born on April 10, 1929 in Pessac (Gironde) in a…
Policy. Eight months before the presidential election, the partial freeze of pensions once again in the debate
Last Thursday, the Minister of the Economy, Roland Lescure, considered that “the question of the contribution of well-off retirees to the recovery effort, for example through a more moderate indexation of their pensions, deserved to be…
The editorial eye. Editorial. From the Chernobyl cloud to the smoke from fires: pollution always knows no borders…
Pollution knows no borders. It was true on April 26, 1986 around Chernobyl, it is still true today with a giant fire in Belgium whose smoke is making eastern France cough. There is a size difference, however. Forty years ago, the authorities preferred…
Digital. Cyberattack against the tax authorities: commissions of inquiry and complaints in preparation
France strainer. On social networks, the expression is declined endlessly by Senator Nathalie Goulet (Orne, UDI), who has been calling since the spring for a commission of inquiry into cyberattacks and data leaks, the latest having affected nearly…
The editorial eye. Editorial. Hacking of tax data: a breach and a bankruptcy
As of this Monday, the 678,000 individuals and businesses whose data has been hacked on the impots.gouv.fr site will be informed by the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) of the damage they have suffered. The stolen data relates, for…