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10.40 a.m.: While the German Chancellor does not want a “short cut” for Ukraine’s possible EU accession, we remember this warning from the European heads of state and government in Versailles (Yvelines) in March: There is “no procedure for quick accession “.
9:52 a.m .: Chancellor Olaf Scholz is not in favor of a “shortcut” for Ukraine’s quick EU accession.
09:10: Let’s go through the main titles again:
• Elisabeth Borne will make her first trip as Prime Minister to Les Mureaux (Yvelines) this afternoon on the subject of equal opportunities and emancipation. The composition of the new government is still pending. Follow our life.
• US President Joe Biden will meet with Swedish and Finnish leaders who have officially asked to join NATO. Yesterday Moscow claimed nearly 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers holed up at the Azovstal site in Mariupol had been “handed over as prisoners”. A figure not confirmed by Kyiv.
• The shortage of staff in hospitals is critical, warns Professor Rémi Salomon. “We have an imminent risk of access to care collapsing,” he told franceinfo.
• Temperatures are falling today as multiple May temperature records were broken or reached in the south-east, middle-east and south-west, notably in Albi (33.7°C), Toulouse (33.4°C) or Montélimar (33 .8 °C).
08:03: Speak in Dallas this afternoon, coach President George. W. Bush made a significant verbal slip when discussing the war in Ukraine. He tried to refer to what he described as a “completely unjustified and brutal invasion” – but said Iraq instead of Ukraine. https://t.co/tw0VNJzKmE
8:23 a.m .: The sequence has already been commented on many times. Former US President George W. Bush made an amazing slip of the tongue yesterday when he alluded to the war in Ukraine. He began by describing “one man’s decision to launch a totally unwarranted and brutal invasion of Iraq.” Before he grimaces and corrects himself: “I mean, from Ukraine.” George W. Bush was in the White House when the decision was made to invade Iraq in 2003, an operation that was quickly dismissed there as brutal and unjustified.
07:51: Roman Starovoyt, governor of the Kursk region, states that other people have been injured and are receiving medical treatment.
7:48 a.m.: One person was killed and one injured in an attack in a village in south-western Russia on the border with Ukraine in the Kursk region, the governor of that region said.
07:25: Le Figaro title about the situation in Ukraine, reminiscent of Kharkiv. The country’s second largest city in the east is the “scene of new Russian atrocities,” writes the newspaper.
7.03 a.m .: French diplomats expelled from Russia in retaliation: “This is a legacy of the Soviet Union,” explains Sylvie Bermann, former French ambassador to Russia, information service.” https://t.co/VbvDbABh2x
07:02: Russia has expelled 34 French diplomats. Nothing very surprising, explains on franceinfo Sylvie Bermann, former French ambassador to Russia until 2019, who is surprised at the delay.
07:32: Let’s do a first reminder of the main titles:
• US President Joe Biden will meet with Swedish and Finnish leaders who have officially asked to join NATO. Yesterday Moscow claimed nearly 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers holed up at the Azovstal site in Mariupol had been “handed over as prisoners”. A figure not confirmed by Kyiv.
• Temperatures are falling today as multiple May temperature records were broken or reached in the south-east, middle-east and south-west, notably in Albi (33.7°C), Toulouse (33.4°C) or Montélimar (33 .8 °C).
• When American actor Tom Cruise arrived by helicopter at the Cannes Film Festival for the screening of Top Gun: Maverick, he was surprisingly awarded the Palme d’Or.
• Majority candidate Jérôme Peyrat has withdrawn from the race in the 4th constituency of the Dordogne. It had been laid despite his domestic violence conviction.
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