Winter is coming. Winter is coming in Franceand we head “ towards a lively Christmas “, title La Tribune Sunday. The specter of a strike resurfaces among farmers against the free trade agreement, still under negotiation, between the European Union and the countries of Mercosur ; on the side of civil servants against the will of the government to go from one to three days of waiting, as in the private sector; on the side of railway workers against the disappearance of SNCF Freight, planned for 1e January 2025. “ Will we live again, wonders La Tribune Sunday, an end of the year like in 2022, with France paralyzed, trains canceled and thousands of travelers unable to join their loved ones for the holidays ? “. In the weekly, the president of the SNCF group, Jean-Pierre Farrandou, calls for “ in the sense of responsibility of railway workers “, at the moment ” where France is experiencing a complicated economic situation “. An observation drawn up, also, by Marianne, who sees the reappearance of “ the specter of mass unemployment “. The magazine counts 183 business failures per day, “ national flagships » like Auchan and Michelin layoffs. And with a deficit of 6% of GDP, “ the government finds itself unable, according to Marianne, to intervene massively, as in the past, to plug the breach with public money “.
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Donald Trump, from Queens to the White House
Cast an additional chill on him after his victory: Donald Trump back in power in the United States. Since numerous analyzes have already been written to explain this victory, the vote of the Americans, the defeat of the Democrats, the countless consequences of the return of Donald Trump to the UNITED STATES and in the world… Why not simply return to the origin of evil? Paris Match traces the career of “ this kid, born in Queens » in New York, just after the World War IIin 1946, and “ who dreamed of glory while looking at the tall towers of Manhattan in the distance “. Donald Trump once toyed with the idea of studying cinema “, but he would have been prevented from doing so by his father, Fred, to whom he was not afraid to answer. His father “ made his fortune building public housing in Brooklyn », recalls Paris Match, but Donald Trump “ aim much higher “. “ He wants to be part of the big world that lives in isolation and looks down on him. » He therefore became a real estate tycoon, before coming close to bankruptcy and then finally becoming “ at the heights of fame » by participating in the reality TV show “The Apprentice”. We know the rest: elected President of the United States in 2016 before a failure in 2020 followed by the invasion of the Capitol, then his recent victory, at the end of an electoral campaign during which he knew “ play against the system “, ” attack constantly “, ” never admit your wrongs “, ” lie “. So many methods learned, tells Paris Match, alongside a sulphurous lawyer, Roy Cohn, whom he met when he was younger when entering a private club in Manhattan.
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Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Ukraine
Back at the White House, “ he knows what awaits him », “ he is prepared », ensures The New Obs. Everything is compiled, according to the weekly, in the more than 900 pages of “Project 2025”, a “ roadmap prepared by a hundred conservative think tanks “. On the menu, therefore, according to The New Obs : “ dismantle the administrative state, defend sovereignty and borders, put the family back at the center of American life, and guarantee individual rights to live freely ». Added to this is the desire to end the war in Ukraine, and on this point, “ Donald Trump will be better than you think »: this is what Boris Johnson wants to think. In The Express, the former British Prime Minister asks: “ Donald Trump, with all his egoall his pride, his determination to restore America’s greatness, will he let Russia humiliate his country ? Will he inaugurate his mandate by letting Vladimir Putin restore the greatness of the Soviet empire? ? “. “ I don’t think », replies Boris Johnson. Yet, The Point looks back on how the Russian president “ will attempt to exploit Donald Trump’s return to the White House to expand his global influence “. Washington is working on a peace agreement which could notably “ validate the Russian conquests, i.e. 20% of the territory of Ukraine “, and prevent kyiv from joining theNATO for 20 years. “ There remains an obstacle, adds The Point : Vladimir Putin’s demands », who go “ far beyond “.
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Already 100 days after the Paris Olympics
Donald Trump, who also attacked a completely different personality during his campaign: the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif. At the heart of a controversy this summer, during the Paris Olympics, accused of not really being a woman, the Olympic champion is on the cover of M Le Monde magazine. Back to the “ harassment » which she has suffered since « very small », without having prevented Imane Khelif “ to become a national idol in Algeria », reminiscent of the weekly and a fashion icon. The Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games were already 100 days ago. L’Équipe magazine therefore chose to celebrate this reverse countdown. To remember the good memories, with the Phryges, these “ mascots who sent Footix back to the locker room », notes the magazine. With the pole vault world record holder, the Swede Armand Duplantis, who slowly comes down from his 6.26 m. And then with this article on the good losers: those who finished at the foot of the podium, at the “ idiot’s place ». They too were received by the president, in Italy, and they were greeted, in Belgium, by the Olympic Committee. “ The fourths had increased visibility during the last Olympics », note The Team, explaining that “ commiseration tends to give way to de-dramatization, an approach specific to a generation of athletes attentive to their well-being ». For some athletes, it’s still difficult to know whether it’s better to laugh about it than to cry about it. But when it comes to the end of the Games, the little tear of nostalgia is never far away. It was summer and the railway workers had even decided to respect the Olympic truce.
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