Loh. The bill dedicated to renewable energies was adopted in the Senate at first reading in early November. This bill to accelerate the production of renewable energies is expected in the hemicycle of the Assembly this Monday, December 5. It aims to “catch up” with France in terms of wind and solar energy by lifting the “administrative and procedural obstacles to halve the time required to deploy projects”, described the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, in front of the deputies.
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Court case. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy is retried on appeal for corruption and influence peddling in the so-called “wiretapping” case, alongside his lawyer Thierry Herzog and former senior magistrate Gilbert Azibert. In March 2021, he was sentenced to three years in prison, including a firm one, making him the second president of the Ve Republic condemned by justice, after Jacques Chirac. The same sentence had been imposed on his two co-defendants in this case, which originated in the telephone interceptions of conversations between Nicolas Sarkozy and Mr.e Herzog in early 2014. The former president said he was the victim of a “deep injustice” and the right had shouted haro on the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office.
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Memory. Emmanuel Macron goes to Aix-en-Provence, to the Camp des Milles, ten years after the opening of a memorial in this former internment center from which thousands of victims were deported to Auschwitz, even before the invasion of the so-called “free” zone, in November 1942.
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Dead. Johnny Hallyday died of cancer at the age of 74 on December 5, 2017. Five years later, the releases of albums, books, boxes and shows are multiplying to revive the French rock star.
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Morandini trial. The Paris Criminal Court renders its judgment on Monday concerning TV host Jean-Marc Morandini, prosecuted for “corruption of minors” on three teenagers between 2009 and 2016, during electronic exchanges and a casting at his home. Alarmed by his “lack of awareness”, the prosecution demanded against the star host of CNews a year in prison suspended during the trial at the end of October.
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Terrorism. The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office presents its submissions to the trial of the Nice attack which left 86 dead and more than 400 injured on the Promenade des Anglais on July 14, 2016. The perpetrator of the attack, a 31-year-old Tunisian, had was shot dead by the police at the end of the murderous race of his truck. Since September 5, seven men and a woman have been tried in Paris, as members of his entourage or alleged intermediaries in the trafficking of arms intended for the assailant.
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Immigration. Promised since the summer, the future law on immigration finally arrives in Parliament for a first test: the government presents Tuesday to the National Assembly the main lines of its draft text on asylum and immigration, of which it wants to use to give a turn of the screw on the expulsions and some pledges on the integration. After a statement on its migration policy, the executive will give way to a long-awaited parliamentary debate, but without a vote, on a highly inflammable subject.
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Ceremony. The body of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin is in Beijing while people pay tribute to him everywhere in China, especially in his hometown of Yangzhou, after his death. A specially chartered plane transported the body from Shanghai, where the former head of state (1989-2003) died on Wednesday aged 96 from leukemia and multiple organ failure , to the Chinese capital, where Xi Jinping was present for the occasion. A ceremony of public meditation in tribute to the late leader will take place on Tuesday.
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Crash. The floor is for the prosecution at the Rio-Paris crash trial – the deadliest disaster in the history of Air France – in which 228 people died. More than 13 years after the crash off Brazil, the two prosecutors must seek a sentence against the manufacturer of the Airbus plane and the airline Air France, tried since October 10 for involuntary homicides.
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Strike. Just three days after a massive strike by its controllers which forced SNCF to cancel 60% of TGVs over the weekend, a new strike involving all staff is looming in the public company on Wednesday, the opening day of mandatory annual negotiations to discuss wage increases for 2023.
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COP15. After displaying their divisions at COP27 on the climate, representatives from around the world meet in Montreal on Wednesday with a new challenge: to resolve their differences in two weeks to approve a historic roadmap capable of safeguarding nature by 2030. The 15e conference of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known as COP15 biodiversity, opens on December 7 in Canada two years late, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and without any certainty on a credible agreement comes to an end on 19 December.
Docuseries. The documentary series awaited with trepidation by the British royal family on Harry and Meghan will be released on December 8 on Netflix. This six-part series will “share the other side of their love story and the challenges they faced.” In the trailer, soberly titled “Harry & Meghan,” black-and-white photos of the couple scroll through dramatic music. “No one sees what happens behind closed doors,” Harry said. “I had to do everything possible to protect my family,” he adds.
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End of life. Kick-off of the work of the citizens’ convention on the end of life, wanted by Emmanuel Macron, on the model of that on the climate. One hundred and fifty French people drawn by lot will work until mid-March to contribute to the reflections on a possible new change in the law. The President of the Republic revived this subject at the end of the summer, a possible major societal reform of his second five-year term, but has since seemed to stall, ahead of sensitive debates.