News
All in all at EDF. Employees of the group will be on strike on Wednesday against the requirement of the state shareholder in the group to sell more electricity at low prices to its competitors in order to contain the electricity bill of households and businesses. The four main trade unions in the energy sector have launched an appeal. Read our interview.
Tension between Russia and the United States continues to mount in Ukraine. Discussions are continuing on Wednesday to find a way out of the Ukrainian crisis. While Moscow on Tuesday launched military maneuvers at the gates of the country, Washington insisted on the sanctions that Russia would suffer in the event of an invasion. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s allies are rushing to bolster its military capabilities.
The boss of the Ehpad Orpea group summoned by the government. the work the Gravediggers, which is due out this Wednesday in bookstores, shows how the obsession with cutting costs within Orpea retirement homes translates into serious “malfunctions»with elderly people “rationed” or left unattended for days. The Minister for Autonomy summons the CEO of Orpea to explain himself. Read our article.
The peak of the epidemic is long overdue. The number of hospitalizations due to Covid has risen above 30,000 for the first time since the end of 2020, but that of patients in critical care units is falling slightly, according to official figures published on Tuesday. Regarding new cases, the seven-day daily average is stable compared to the previous day with 366,000 cases. But with numbers so high, some wonder if the indicators for tracking the outbreak still make sense. And faced with the BA.2 and BA.1 sub-variants, the virologists, who predicted a decline in the epidemic last week, are back on their forecasts. Read our article.
To be continued today
French cinema makes its selection. One year after the coronation ofGoodbye Cons by Albert Dupontel, the list of films and artists nominated for the César should be announced in the morning. The Academy will then have one month to vote and decide between them.
Charcuterie on the Assembly menu. MPs are starting to debate a text this week to gradually ban charcuterie makers from using nitrites, controversial preservatives that give cooked ham a pink color. The text will be discussed this Wednesday in the Economic Affairs Committee, then in public session on February 3.
MPs want to facilitate the name change. Abandoning the name received at birth to take that of the other parent: the National Assembly is examining this Wednesday a text of “freedom” allowing to change surname more easily, once in one’s life. The text comes in the afternoon for first reading at the Palais Bourbon. It must be examined in the Senate on February 15, with a view to final adoption before the end of the legislature.
Investigation
The boom in child prostitution. In Marseille, Release met “Vanessa”, an out-of-school teenager who started prostitution at age 13 after being raped and running away several times. With lucidity, she confides in her career, her clients, the attraction of money and her feeling of being trapped. Read our article.
The report
Spanish villagers in the countryside. Exasperated by decades of depopulation and disengagement of the state, “the Spain of the void” invests the political field. In Extremadura, young people, elected officials, activists and associations are multiplying initiatives to revive their villages. Read our article.
Criticism
A Wednesday of political fiction. Cinematographic UFO featuring the true-false candidacy of an actor for mayor of Revin, in the Ardennes, Municipal, the film by Thomas Paulot, disturbs and ultimately seduces with its ability to overcome the disgust of politics. Read our article and our interview.