Have you picked up the news? We summarize the main information of the last two days.
Purchasing power: the government ready for a discount of 30 cents per liter of fuel
In a compromise with the deputies Les Républicains (LR), who called for going ” further away ” to help the French in the face of soaring fuel prices, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, said he was in favor of increasing the discount at the pump from 18 to 30 centimes per litre, on Saturday July 23. “The discount could increase from 18 to 30 euro cents in September and October, then increase to 10 in November and 10 in December”, he detailed. With the discount of 20 cents at the pump announced Friday by TotalEnergies, “you would have in some service stations in France a fuel at 1.50 euro” – a threshold defended by LR, he continued.
In addition, despite the opposition of Renaissance deputies (ex-LRM), the National Assembly decided, on Saturday evening, to allocate 120 million euros to the departments which pay the RSA (active solidarity income) in 2022. , to fully offset the 4% increase in this benefit programmed by the State. An amendment to this effect to the draft rectified budget for 2022 was adopted by 125 votes to 98, by the conjunction of favorable votes from the left, the RN, LR but also – for the first time – from the deputies of the Horizons group, ally of the majority.
In the morning, the abolition of the fee which finances public broadcasting, a promise by Emmanuel Macron, had however passed without incident, although it raised many questions about the independence of the media concerned. LR and RN voted for, the left alliance Nupes, unanimously against. Amendments have been adopted to affect ” a fraction “ VAT to the public media, for an amount of approximately 3.7 billion euros, with the aim of responding to concerns about the financing of this sector.
kyiv accuses Russia of not respecting the grain export agreement
Russian missiles targeted the Black Sea port of Odessa on Saturday, Ukraine said, accusing Moscow of jeopardizing the implementation of the agreement signed the day before for the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports blocked by war . “The enemy attacked the port of Odessa with Kalibr type cruise missiles. Two missiles were shot down by air defense », announced a spokesman for the administration of the Odessa region, Sergey Bratchuk, in a statement posted on social networks. Moscow, for its part, claims to have targeted military targets.
This strike came the day after the signing in Istanbul of an agreement initialed separately by the two belligerents which should allow the export of between 20 and 25 million tonnes of grain blocked in Ukraine. “It took less than twenty-four hours for the Russian Federation to call into question, with missile attacks on the territory of the port of Odessa, the agreements and the promises it made to the United Nations and the Turkey in the document signed yesterday in Istanbul »said Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko.
“If the agreement reached is not respected, Russia will bear full responsibility for the worsening of the world food crisis”, warned the spokesperson. This agreement should relieve the countries dependent on the Russian and Ukrainian markets, which together represent 30% of the world wheat trade.
Monkey pox: WHO triggers its highest level of alert
This is only the seventh time that the WHO has used this level of alert, the highest in the organization, which is supposed to trigger a whole series of actions by member countries. Faced with the outbreak of monkeypox, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), announced on Saturday that he was declaring a public health emergency of international concern (USppi).
Mr Tedros explained that the committee of experts had failed to reach a consensus, remaining divided on the need to trigger the highest level of alert. In fine, it is up to the general manager to decide. The latter specified that the epidemic already affects nearly 17,000 people in seventy-four countries and that the risk in the world was relatively moderate, except in Europe, where it is high.
Detected in early May, the unusual upsurge in monkeypox cases outside central and west African countries, where the virus is endemic, has since spread across the globe, with Europe as the main center . Monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted disease but, outside endemic areas, it affects, with rare exceptions, relatively young men who have sex with men, living mainly in cities, according to the WHO.
Government bans open door air conditioning and reduces illuminated advertising
leave the doors open, “it’s 20% more consumption and (…) it’s absurd “explained the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher in The Sunday newspaper. Several cities in France had already launched the movement. The Minister of Energy Transition finally intends to generalize it with a national decree: the obligation for air-conditioned stores to close their doors.
Agnès Pannier-Runacher also announced on Sunday the reduction of luminous advertising, drawing inspiration, in large part, from already existing and poorly applied regulations. The current regulations thus distinguish between agglomerations of more or less 800,000 inhabitants: illuminated advertising is prohibited between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. in France in those with less than 800,000 inhabitants. In more populated ones, the rules depend on the local advertising regulations (RLP), if there is one.
The current law also already obliges to turn off illuminated signs and shop windows from 1 am. The ministry could not specify on Sunday the content of the next decree, but explains that it will aim to “harmonize the rules”without specifying the number of agglomerations today covered by an RLP or concretely how the controls and sanctions, up to 1,500 euros, will be implemented.
Tour de France: the expected coronation of the Dane Vingegaard
The wearer of the yellow jersey Jonas Vingegaard and the whole peloton took the start of the 115.6 kilometers of the 21e and last stage, Sunday July 24, in the district of Defense, in the west of Paris. The route describes a loop west of the capital followed by the traditional circuit until the conclusion on the famous Parisian avenue of the Champs-Elysées. The arrival of the race is expected around 7:34 p.m., for the expected crowning achievement of Dane Vingegaard.
The Belgian Wout van Aert, wearer of the green jersey in the points classification and winner of three stages so far, could add another success to his personal account, a year after his victorious tumble on the Champs-Elysées in front of his compatriot Jasper Philipsen .
In addition, the Tour de France Women started on Sunday in Paris. Dutch sprinter Lorena Wiebes won the 1re stage and wears the first yellow jersey of this Grande Boucle women’s version. Wiebes was more powerful than her compatriot Marianne Vos to win on the Champs-Elysées, where Belgian Lotte Kopecky took 3e place du sprint final.
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