2023-07-23 23:38:00
First government meeting at Matignon, funeral of Jane Birkin, Bayonne celebrations, second match of Les Bleues… What is planned for this week.
by LC, with AFP In Paris, Elisabeth Borne is to receive her new government and Emmanuel Macron will hold an interview from Noumea, New Caledonia. © LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP Published on 07/23/2023 at 11:38 p.m.
Macron and Matignon. The president is due to begin an official visit to New Caledonia for several days on Monday. From Noumea, the first stage of this stay, Emmanuel Macron will give an interview to the 1 p.m. television news, on TF1 and France 2. This interview comes after the reshuffle of part of the government, Thursday July 20. Elisabeth Borne must also host the first meeting of the new government on Monday. Eight new ministers, including Gabriel Attal, propelled to the Ministry of National Education, are expected at Matignon.
Jane Birkin. The funeral of Jane Birkin, who died Sunday July 16 at the age of 76, will take place Monday in Paris, in the Saint-Roch church. If access to the church is reserved for the family and relatives of the actress and singer, a giant screen will be positioned nearby to allow the crowd of fans to attend the ceremony.
READ ALSODeath of Jane Birkin: our Lady Jane is goneClimate. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is being prosecuted for “refusal to comply” after an action in mid-June in the port of Malmö, in southern Sweden. The case is due in court on Monday. The activist faces six months in prison, but prosecutor Charlotte Ottosen told the Swedish daily South Sweden that this charge usually results in a fine.
Diplomacy. On Monday, the American first lady Jill Biden arrives in France. Representing her husband, President Joe Biden, she must participate in a ceremony at UNESCO on Tuesday to mark the return of the United States to the institution. On the same day, China is to welcome Yuan Meng, the first baby panda born in France at the Beauval zoo. This departure, now official, had been postponed several times because of the Covid-19.
READ ALSOThe United States is back within UNESCOBayonne festivals. The city of Bayonne is preparing to launch the 91st edition of the Bayonne festivals. The festivities, which expect nearly 1.2 million people, begin on Wednesday and will last until Sunday. The streets will again be adorned with white and red, the color of the traditional scarf that festival-goers tie around their necks.
International. From Thursday until Friday, the man who wanted to kill Queen Elizabeth II with a crossbow in 2021, and was arrested near the late sovereign’s apartments, must know his sentence. It will be delivered during a hearing which is being held in London over two days. On the other side of the Atlantic, President Joe Bien is due to receive Italian head of government Giorgia Meloni at the White House on Thursday.
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Justice. From 2 p.m. Friday, the Court of Cassation must deliver its verdict on a case for “illegal taking of interests” targeting Éric Dupond-Moretti, the current Keeper of the Seals. The former lawyer appealed to the Court of Cassation to request that the referrals to the Court of Justice be stopped.
Sport. The French women’s football team will try on Sunday July 30 to finally enter the competition, by facing Brazil, their second opponent in the 2023 World Cup. After a draw against Jamaica on Sunday July 23, Hervé Renard’s Bleues must now prove themselves.
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