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Emmanuel Macron put on his environmentalist clothes on Sunday. The Head of State has announced that he wants to develop an equivalent of the Ile-de-France RER in ten French cities as an alternative to the car, with in particular the desire to accelerate existing projects. “The RER is not just in Paris”, pleaded the president in a sequence posted on YouTube, in which he answers questions from Internet users on ecology. “It’s a great objective for the ecology, the economy, the quality of life” in cities “where there is thrombosis, too much traffic”. Emmanuel Macron, on the other hand, limited himself to setting the objective, without giving a timetable or quantifying the necessary investments. It is Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, in charge of ecological planning, who will have to detail and then supervise these major works.
Anger is rising in China over health restrictions. The country is even experiencing gatherings of an unprecedented scale for decades. And, unsurprisingly, these demonstrations are not at all to the liking of power. The censorship of the Chinese authorities is therefore at work this Monday to erase all traces of the dispute that arose the day before against health restrictions and for more freedoms. On Sunday, a crowd of demonstrators, responding to calls on social networks, expressed their anger in particular in Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan, catching the police off guard. Among the slogans chanted in unison: “No Covid tests, we are hungry! », « Xi Jinping, resign! CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Withdraw! “,… Monday morning, a police presence was visible in Beijing and Shanghai, near the places of gatherings the day before. The police also made arrests.
From this Monday, the deputies will look into the problem of illegally occupied dwellings. The Assembly will indeed begin the examination of a sensitive anti-squats bill, which could be adopted with the votes of the LR and RN deputies, and despite the opposition of the left and associations. Carried by the groups of the presidential majority Renaissance and Horizons, the text proposes to triple the penalties incurred by the squatters up to three years in prison and a 45,000 euro fine. He also wants to comfort donors in the face of unpaid debts, by planning to shorten procedural deadlines. Right to Housing is headwind against this bill. The association thus held a rally on Sunday against the text which presents “the squatters as delinquents as they seek shelter”.