“ Nuclear is back at the heart of the energy strategy » : this is the great title of the Figaro. “ After going through first reading in the Senate, then an adoption in committeethe bill aimed at promoting the revival of nuclear power arrives in the Chamber on Monday, point to the newspaper. A text that materializes the statements of Emmanuel Macron during his speech in Belfort, a year ago : the President of the Republic then announced the construction of six new EPR 2 reactors. The bill provides in particular for a simplification of administrative procedures in order to accelerate the construction of nuclear power plants. »
“ Nuclear : time for general mobilization exclaims Opinion on the front page. The challenge is colossal both technically and financially. : there is the problem of the maintenance of the power stations, that of the cracks, of the corrosion… There is the problem of the coordination between the various actors of the sector and there is of course the problem of the financing… “ All avenues are being studied, point L’Opinion, in order to find the 150 billion euros needed over the next twenty years. The idea of digging into the woolen sock of booklet A is well under consideration. »
An unrealistic plan ?
Liberation is skeptical…” In its eagerness to relaunch nuclear power, the executive did not answer an essential question: how to do it, very concretely ? How to build 14 new reactors, or even more, while extending the current 56 beyond forty years (their originally planned lifespan), up to fifty or even sixty years, while new cracks “non negligable” were updated last week on two of them ? With what money, what labor but also what water, when climate change promises to worsen droughts ? »
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Comment by Freed : “ Emmanuel Macron may be humming La Java des bombes atomics by Boris Vian : “There’s something wrong with that / I’m going right back”. »
pensions : the reform with the forceps ?
Also on the front page, the pension reform project… Last straight line this week.
“ What if the hardest part only begins now for the government ? », wonders The Parisian. “ After the vote by the Senate on Saturday, the Way of the Cross continues at the start of a potentially decisive week for the final adoption of the text… as for Élisabeth Borne, whose authority could be seriously weakened in the event of recourse to the 49.3. »
For Release, “ this is the kind of week that deputies and ministers begin without knowing if they will finish it at their post. “A lot of the five-year term is played out in the pension reform vote”, dramatizes a member of the government, his eyes riveted on Thursday’s ballot in the National Assembly. With a clear majority or with 49.3. »
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Humanity warns : “ If after the closed-door negotiations of the joint joint committee, this legislative ordeal were to end on Friday with yet another 49.3, the very credibility of the text would clearly be in question. Behind this desire to anesthetize the debate, it is the conception of democratic life that is at stake. »
In fact, consider Free Charente, “ social movements are part of the mechanisms of counter-democracy essential to the functioning of the political system. The responsibility of those who govern is to take them into account under pain of reducing popular expression to a simple vote every five years and ultimately leaving the democratic framework. »
On the side of the street, precisely, despite a weaker seventh day of demonstrations on Saturday, the unions and the opposition are keeping up the pressure and warning of a rise in anger », raises The cross. “ “The match is not yet played”. As Laurent Berger of the CFDT still assures, the unions are not letting their guard down. […] With the next day of mobilization scheduled for Wednesday, the social partners can hope for a social boost, at the very moment when the parliamentarians will be meeting in a joint joint committee. »
Too many children stuffed with painkillers !
Finally, “ our overdosed children » : a folder to read in The Parisian. “ In its latest survey, the High Council for the Family, Childhood and Age reports a worrying increase in the consumption and prescription of psychotropic drugs among the youngest. […] This overmedication, which makes them drowsy and sometimes apathetic, does not concern isolated cases, is alarmed The Parisianbut “tens of thousands of children” aged 6 to 17 to whom doctors often prescribe treatments reserved, in France, for adults. “In question, the lack of personnel and structures…” While child psychiatric care needs have doubled in twenty years, the offer is disappearing. It takes six months on average in France, denounces Le Parisien, to consult in the adapted medico-social centers. »