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Ukrainian crisis: towards a drop in tension? Suggest a “path of de-escalation” to Vladimir Putin. Such was the delicate mission of Emmanuel Macron this Friday. The Heads of State spoke at the end of the morning about the crisis in Ukraine. Unsurprisingly, Putin repeated that he was not happy: he allegedly told Macron that the West “did not take into accountRussian concerns about NATO expansion. On the Elysée side, it is said that the discussion has “allowed to agree on the need for de-escalation”. Later in the day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the West not to stir up “panic” by drumming the risk of war so as not to precipitate an “internal destabilization” of his country. For weeks, Russia has been holding Ukraine hostage because Putin would feel threatened by the extension of NATO to its doors and is opposed to Kiev joining the Alliance. More than 100,000 Russian soldiers have been massed on the Ukrainian border since the end of 2021.
Bac specialty tests postponed to mid-May. Jean-Michel Blanquer has chosen the middle way. After consultation with elected high school students from the National Council for High School Life, teachers’ unions and parents’ federations, the Minister of National Education announced that the baccalaureate specialty tests, scheduled for mid-March, have been postponed to May 11, 12 and 13 due to the Covid-19 epidemic. The two previous days will be devoted to revisions of these subjects for general and technological high school students, the other courses will not take place. In the Covid news of the day, we also note the massive reinvestment plan for the pharmaceutical laboratory Sanofi announced by Jean Castex. Find all the news of the pandemic in our live of the day.
Hand: a semi-final of miracles for the blues. In the last four after a heroic success against Denmark, the Blues lean this Friday in Budapest at 8:30 p.m. on a Sweden which had dismissed them at the same stage during the 2021 World Cup. “A game of miracles”, laughs the goalkeeper of the Blues, Vincent Gérard, when asked his opinion on the semi-final which awaits his people, so much we believed that the access match for the final of this curious Hungarian Euro of handball would oppose the Iceland to Norway. Two comebacks, each as unexpected as the other, have upset the situation and offer the bill to France and Sweden.
After the military putsch, Burkina suspended from the Community of West African States. The virtual summit will have lasted three hours. Three hours after which the heads of state of the Community of West African States (ECOWAS) decided to suspend Burkina Faso. After the military coup experienced by the country on Monday, it demanded the release of overthrown President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, placed under house arrest, as well as other arrested officials, said a participant in the meeting on condition of anonymity. . The Heads of State will meet on February 3 in Accra to once again assess the situation in this country. The virtual summit also decided to send a mission to Ouagadougou on Saturday by the chiefs of staff of the ECOWAS armies, which will be followed on Monday by a ministerial mission.
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Yannick Jadot and the end of thermal cars: “This transition must be fair”. Mobility manager at the Foundation for Nature and Man, Marie Chéron returns to the proposal of the environmental candidate to ban the sale of new vehicles with fossil fuel by 2030.
Orpea: after the scandal in France, nursing homes of the group inspected in Belgium. At the heart of the turmoil since the revelations of the French journalist Victor Castanet, the establishments of the operator Orpea will be inspected in Wallonia, Belgium.
Great Barrier Reef: a small plan for the reef, a big plan for Australia. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison proudly announced new investments on Friday to try to save this area very weakened by global warming. While continuing to invest massively in fossil fuels.