Start of Emmanuel Macron’s tour in Africa, capping the price of gasoline in Total stations… All the news for this Wednesday.
By Valentin Dechambre for Le Point
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Visite. Emmanuel Macron began an important African sequence on Monday with a major speech at the Élysée devoted to France’s diplomatic and military strategy on a continent where its influence is disputed. The French president will begin this Wednesday a tour in four countries of Central Africa: Gabon, Angola, Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). During the first stage, in Libreville, he will participate in a summit on the preservation of the forests of the Congo River basin. In this region, and on the continent as a whole, the influence of France and Westerners is contested by China or Russia. Thus, three of the four countries that the French president will visit (Gabon, Congo and Angola) abstained last Thursday during the vote on a resolution of the General Assembly of the UN demanding the Russian withdrawal from Ukraine.
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Price. Negotiations between supermarkets and suppliers to the food industry end on Wednesday. Exchanges which have been complicated, and which raise fears of a significant increase in prices on the shelves. “Consumers will still see a lot of increases,” warned Michel-Édouard Leclerc on BFMTV, who also denounced the “enormous increases” demanded by their suppliers. The boss of E. Leclerc, however, thinks that a “red march” will arrive, but that the prices can “be passed on until July because it takes four or five months”. For the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, the hypothesis of a “red march” is not possible either.
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Ceiling. The boss of TotalEnergies, Patrick Pouyanné, announced it: a tariff shield will be put in place in all service stations, from this Wednesday 1er March ; 3,400 service stations are concerned. The price is set at 1.99 euros for diesel, except the Excellium, and gasoline, except the SP98. This cap has already been in place in motorway stations since February 25. The other companies offering gasoline did not align themselves with this offer.
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