Believing in a better tomorrow in a tormented world… This is the wish of many newspapers at the start of the year. To start with South West : “ so as not to always see the glass half empty, after all these anxiety-provoking years, it would be rational to note that everything is not so bad, by not depriving oneself of hoping that everything will go even better. To see that in France, our ‘civilization of a full stomach’ has been able to save 20% of energy in three months without worries; that our health system, even suffering, treats us as effectively as possible; that the job market is doing rather well, thank you for him… »
Free Charente adds…” A priori, nothing can encourage us to look to the future with a smile. But, it would be a mistake not to see under this fatal veil, signs of hope. The Ukrainians resist and even push back Putin’s roughnecks, the Iranian ayatollahs waver before the unveiled women. Bolsonaro has been removed from power in Brazil and Trump will have to face justice. All over, notes the Charente daily, young people are shaking consciences and powers in the face of the climate emergency. Faced with the difficulties of daily life, the French are organizing and acting as responsible citizens to achieve the necessary energy savings. More than by our political leaders, it is by the will of individuals to build or rebuild a world that hope points. She’s thin and fragile, but she’s there. »
The climate: not yet the top priority…
The climate: the main subject of concern for Release…
“ How not to be alarmed to start this new year in shirt sleeves, without shivering; how not to smile yellow looking at these January 1 bathers rejoicing at having barely more trouble taking a dip than in the middle of August (…)? They remind us more than ever, at the time of resolutions for 2023, that the fight against global warming is a vital imperative. Emmanuel Macron, during his televised intervention, of course mentioned “the climate crisis with spectacular effects” and this “battle” of the ecological transition that “we must win”. New government measures come into force at the beginning of January, point Release, from the introduction of low-emission zones to encouraging carpooling and the fight against thermal sieves. But once again, the Head of State missed with his wishes the opportunity to convince us that he was going to make these climate issues the top priority, says the newspaper. By preferring to pass on his essential message on pensions, by putting at the heart of his speech, until saturation, the value ‘work’, Emmanuel Macron confirmed that the ideological software which serves as his guide is of a sadly classic bill. And, it is to be feared, not up to the challenges before us. They are huge, difficult. All the more reason to highlight the missed presidential opportunity. »
The conditional RSA: a measure that makes people talk
Among the new social measures put in place at the start of the year: a new RSA, active solidarity income, which will now be conditional on hours of activity. Eighteen departments and the metropolis of Lyon will experiment with this new formula.
” An idea supposed to promote the return to work but which makes people talk “, point The Midi Dispatch. Indeed, says the newspaper, a malaise has set in with this reform of the minimum income which puts duties before rights and which takes up the old antiphon of the right on ‘the cancer of welfare’, as if the beneficiaries of the RSA were satisfied with their situation of precariousness, even though 600,000 eligible households do not take the steps to obtain it. This reform of the RSA poses a problem because the control of the resources and the obligations of the recipients, in particular in terms of training, already exist. »
And The Dispatch to notice that “ Germany, which cannot pass for a lax economy, takes the opposite path to that of France by giving precedence to rights over duties. »
Scientists progress…
Finally, science promises us incredible advances for 2023… The Parisian took inventory. “ The coming year will crown the infinitely small, especially in computing and its so-called ‘quantum’ computers, with a computing power so important that it could contribute to the development of vaccines, drugs or even fight against disruption. climatic. 2023 will (also) open the way to new therapeutic promises: nano drugs, antibodies against bronchiolitis, advances against HIV, new treatments against cancer. »
And then note again The Parisian“ this year will also make us touch the Moon where the first tourists are expected! And why not a trip to Mars… ‘We are not far away’, affirms the Nobel Prize in Physics Alain Aspect, who knows that yesterday’s fantasies can be tomorrow’s reality. »