” What a spectacular change of foot!exclaims Le Figaro. In his wishes to the nation, on December 31, Emmanuel Macron affirmed that he was “resolutely optimistic for the year to come” and those that follow. Eight months later, with Churchillian accents, he suddenly paints the future black. Last week, speaking about the war in Ukraine, he called on the French to agree to “pay the price” for their freedom and their values. To drive the point home, in such a dark register, he decreed, yesterday Wednesday, before his government, the “end of abundance and carelessness” in the face of climate change. We are living, according to him, “a great shift”. »
Electroshock?
So why this exit from the Head of State? Response from Parisian : cause an electric shock in public opinion…” and show that the captain is at the helm », deciphers one of his lieutenants, while in recent weeks, internally, many have criticized him mezza voce for not setting a clear course at the start of his five-year term. (…) At the top of the state, however, the idea of an alarmist tone is rejected. ” The French see what is changing in their daily lives, the president has just made a lucid observation », insists an adviser. ” Lucid. Confident in our strengths and respectful of everyone. We must stand together », this is even the title of the column published last night by the Head of State on the website of the weekly Challenges to detail the background of his thought…
Not very clear…
A clear course? No, answer Free Charente for whom, precisely, Emmanuel Macron’s words were not very clear…
” Let’s be clear, we did not really understand what he meant and especially what would be the consequences of the end of abundance and the carelessness that our society would be experiencing. First of all, point La Charente Libre, because it lacks a definition of the abundance or carelessness that would have guided our lives until then. The abundance of public money? Fossil fuels or water that we use as inexhaustible resources? That of the record dividends that the shareholders of large groups have just obtained? Or the abundance of consumer goods that every capitalist society seeks to make growth both the means and the goal to be sought? This release brings more questions than answers. »
” We dream ! »
For its part, the left is also wondering, raises Releaseand ” boomerang the presidential punch line back. “End of abundance”? Millions of French people, below the poverty line, badly heated, badly housed, don’t they already know this regime? “No, but we are dreaming!”, strangles the number 1 communist, Fabien Roussel. “As if the French had run out of worries and had stuffed themselves too much”. corrects Jean-Luc Mélenchon, while Europe Ecology-the Greens, Sandrine Rousseau, considers that instead of abundance, “there has been enrichment, destruction, extraction beyond the limits of the planet and of many humans. One of the main culprits of this is called liberalism”. »
TotalEnergies pinned
Also on the front page, the investigation of the World on the gas activities of TotalEnergies in Russia…” The French oil giant co-exploits a deposit in Russia whose product, transformed into kerosene, supplies Russian bombers “, reveals the evening daily. As a result, to raises with seriousness the question of the maintenance of the activities of TotalEnergies in this country engaged in an iniquitous war against Ukraine “says The world. “ TotalEnergies, the only Western oil major to maintain its activities in Russia, is playing with fire, again denounces the newspaper, and seeks to hide behind ignorance of the use made of the products it puts on the market. »
And “ the question applies not only to the energy giant, but to the French state, concludes Le Monde: how can Emmanuel Macron claim to both put pressure on the ex-Total to obtain fuel discounts in France, spare the juggernaut from a tax on its superprofits indirectly linked to the war in Ukraine and continue to turn a blind eye to his contribution, however unwitting, to Russian aggression? »