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07:54: Enjoyment is over for netflix. The American streaming giant announces that it is conducting tests in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru to charge its customers for transferring their passwords away from home.
07:54: Gerald Darmanin begins his second day of discussions in Corsica to talk about the path to his eventual autonomy. To better understand why the government hastened to visit the island, we have just published this article detailing the causes of the fire following the attack on Ivan Colonna in prison.
(PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP)
07:38: While fuel prices are rising, the government has announced a 15-cent rebate on refueling starting April 1st. A measure that provoked many political reactions. The effectiveness of the measure, the tax share, the evolution of fuel prices… I deciphered and checked four recent gas station price declarations.
(BASTIEN MARIE / HANS LUKAS / AFP)
7:54 am: According to an Ipsos-Sopra Steria poll for France Télévisions, more than seven out of 10 respondents believe that immigration is not the main cause of all the country’s problems. More than half of the respondents (54%) are in favor of keeping the family reunification introduced in 1976, while two far-right candidates (Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour) want it to be abolished and Valerie Pecresse (LP) wants it to be tightened up. Find details in our article.
07:26: With Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin visiting Corsica, it’s hard not to mention the Corse-Matin daily in this press brief.
07:22: Special mention of Liberation “everything in comics” today on the occasion of the Angouleme festival.
7:19 am: Daily L’Opinion focuses on the “coming food crisis” due to the war in Ukraine.
07:17: “Workers should not pay for the war,” says Philippe Martinez, leader of the CGT, in one of the “Humanita” on this new day of mobilization.
07:53: What will you find on the newsstands this morning? Le Parisien / Today in France is the title in Corsica, on the second day of the visit to the island of Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin. The newspaper notes that “the flu is back.”
7:07 am: CGT, FSU, Solidaires, Unsa and several high school organizations call for new day of strike and interprofessional demonstrations. Revealing candidate Emmanuel Macron’s plans for pensions, with a gradual transition of the age of majority to 65 if he is re-elected, could inflame the ire of demonstrators.
07:03: Justice authorizes extradition to the United Statesformer President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandezwho held this post from 2014 to 2022. He will be tried for drug dealing. This decision is subject to appeal within three days.
(ORLANDO SIERRA / AFP)
06:57: 🔴🗣 Autonomy of Corsica ➡️ “We have gone through a phase of violence, we want to get out of it, but this can only be done through dialogue and, of course, quick results,” says Pierre Savelli. https://t.co/1w57zpqQPX
7:52 am: Pierre Savelli, mayor of Bastia (Haute Corsa), a nationalist, answers Franceinfo after an early afternoon of talks between Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and local elected officials.
07:52: Media North Korea remain silent about Pyongyang launching a rocket the day before, which exploded shortly after launch. Normally, North Korean state media are quick to publish reports of successful weapons tests. There they didn’t mention the test the day before. “North Korea constantly praises the leaders for their excellent work. They don’t want to highlight failures,” said Cheong Sung-chan, a researcher at the private Sejong Institute. The North Korean media is sparse (daily newspaper Rodong Sinmun and news agency KCNA) and is in the hands of the regime.
7:51 am. Deeming the “sustainability plan” proposals “insufficient”, the Organization of European Road Carriers is calling for mobilization on Monday 21 March. OTRE is requesting, in particular, “direct and additional financial assistance per vehicle” within a “very short” timeframe, the only assistance “capable of meeting the expectations of member companies”.
6:34 am. A massive 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, killing four people and injuring 107, according to the Japanese government. The quake was originally declared to have a magnitude of 7.3, but its magnitude has been overestimated.
6:30 am: 🔴LIVE – 🗣 Sustainability plan announced by Jean Castex ➡️ “We think it’s big enough, we can’t expect everything from the government. These measures are targeted, they seem relevant to us. expensive,” says Patrick Martin, president of Medef. https://t.co/jEA9U6Dnfm
6:30 am: Patrick Martin, president of Medef, welcomes the set of measures presented yesterday by Jean Castex. “It seems to us that this is good (…) These measures are targeted, they seem to be relevant for us,” he evaluates on Franceinfo.
6:23 am. Last month, about 1,400 scientists on the Franceinfo website deplored the lack of debate on the climate and environmental crisis during the presidential campaign. At the forum, members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or the Supreme Climate Council urged presidential candidates and the media to abandon “speech of inaction”. You can (re)read it here.
(NICHOLAS TUKAT / AFP)
06:20: Omnipresent in our daily lives, transport dominated by private cars is a major source of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions contributing to global warming in France. In trying to highlight this topic in the campaign, Franceinfo pays special attention to it.
(ELLEN LAUZON / FRANCE)
07:50: Purchasing power has become a major French concern. However, housing, the main item of expenditure for households, is little mentioned in this campaign. To do its part to put this topic at the center of the debate, Franceinfo decided to give it special attention.
(ELLEN LAUZON / FRANCE)
07:49: Staff flight, overwork, budget constraints… After two years of a pandemic that bled it dry, the public hospital is more fragile than ever. Franceinfo decided to dedicate one of its four focuses to this so that this crisis becomes more of a presidential campaign.
(ELLEN LAUZON / FRANCE)
07:49: With the Covid-19 pandemic, French mental health has worsened. Nearly one in four adults now experience anxiety, according to Public Health France. However, the topic is missing from the campaign and remains taboo. That’s why Franceinfo is exploring this issue, which confuses the intimate and the collective.
(ELLEN LAUZON / FRANCE)
6:10 am: Less than a month before the first round, franceinfo launches an operation called “Les focuss de franceinfo”. We invite you to explore four topics that deserve to be the subject of public debate, even if they don’t necessarily manage to impose themselves at the heart of this campaign. Reports, testimonials, transcripts… Follow the instructions.
07:48: A little after 6 o’clock, let’s do the first reminder of the main titles:
• A theater housing “hundreds of civilians” became the target of a Russian airstrike in Mariupol. “It is impossible to immediately determine the number of dead, because shelling of residential areas continues,” the mayor’s office of this city in southeastern Ukraine writes. Yesterday Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” for the first time.
• Jean Castex presented a range of measures yesterday afternoon to mitigate the effects of the invasion of Ukraine on the French economy, including assistance to businesses, fishermen and even farmers. Here is a summary of the announcements.
• In the closing phase of this election campaign, Franceinfo has decided to focus on four main topics that are as close to your interests as possible: the cost of housing, the crisis in public hospitals, the carbon footprint of transport and the taboo on mental health. Check out our reports, reviews and transcripts here.
• Turning point in the campaign. Emmanuel Macron will hold a press conference this afternoon to present his program.
07:47: Hello everyone! We are together until noon to follow all the news this Thursday, March 17th. As always, feel free to email me if you have a question, comment, or link worth a detour.
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