Emmanuel Macron deprived of a state of grace at the start of his five-year term. According to an Ifop poll for The Sunday Journalthe first of its kind since his re-election five weeks ago, the president remains becalmed at 41% satisfaction rate among the French, a level identical to that of the end of the previous five-year term.
Emmanuel Macron maintains his ” electoral base (senior executives, seniors) emphasizes The JDD. But this weekly also notes that the president “ off hook ” among private sector employees and 50-64 year olds, “ those whose purchasing power is badly resisting the surge in inflation “.
Pap Ndiaye, wet firecracker
In the kiosks, however, the successor of Jean-Michel Blanquer is noticed on the front page of the weekly The Obs. However, the appointment of the new Minister of National Education ” is a nice political stunt of the Head of State, underlines this magazine. Which newspaper admits it is ” distressing that in France, in 2022, the accession of a black man to the head of a sovereign ministry like that of National Education is an event. But the fact is: it’s not nothing, after a second round of the presidential election marked by the presence of the far right “, point The Obs.
Pap Ndiaye follower of “wokism”? In this magazine, the historian Emmanuelle Loyer ensures that on several occasions, Pap Ndiaye warned against the ” sectarianism of certain decolonial struggles. He criticizes single-sex meetings, but admits in the magazine She in 2020 that we can consider them ” as moments through which, in their history, groups need to experience themselves as such “. He understands some unbolting of statues, but thinks that ” there are also other, more creative ways to do it. Like leaning on these monuments to make history », Reports The Obs.
Russian logic sotto voce
In Ukraine, the Russian noose is tightening in the Donbass region. And in the press, this week, the Russian vision of this conflict is also progressing? This is the case in the weekly The Expresswhere Stephen Walt, professor of international relations at the American University of Harvard, believes that ” it was a mistake to start expanding NATO eastwards in the 1990s, even though Russia was very weak and could do nothing to oppose it (…) At some point, this process was bound to cause trouble, believes Stephen Walt in The Express. The realists kept saying that Russia, like any major power, could not remain indifferent as the world’s most powerful military alliance continued to move its forces and members on or near its border. And, of course, that’s precisely what we’ve seen happen “.
” Time and time again, we have simply ignored Russia’s concerns. And if you’re a Russian leader watching this happen for twenty years or more, you’re bound to worry about what the United States and its allies might do in the future. I believe it was this mindset that helped convince Putin that he needed to use force in Ukraine. It was a big mistake on his part, but he thought he had no choice “, regrets Stephen Walt in The Express.
In the eye of the storm
Now it is nothing less than a global crisis that many fear. ” All economic actors would agree, a crisis is coming, but no warning signs are visible, notes the weekly Point. ” Many of us are concerned, there is a muted concern, but we do not see anything materializing on the ground “, said thus to this weekly Laurent Mignon. Chairman of the management board of the Banques Populaires et Caisses d’Epargne group, this expert depicts the situation ” like a great calm before the storm “.