49.3 monopolizes European television channels

On the ARD, German channel, the astonishment after the use of 49.3 in France to pass the pension reform without requiring the vote of the National Assembly. The correspondent in Paris evokes a real tumult when La Marseillaise prevented Élisabeth Borne from speaking: “It’s something you don’t often see in a Western parliament (…) One thing is certain, Emmanuel Macron and his government come out of these events seriously weakened.”

49.3 opens the newspaper in Belgium

For the TVE, in Spain, the government exposes itself to a new motion of censure. “It’s the only thing we have left”, says Rodrigo Arenas, deputy La France insoumise (LFI). On the RTBF, the tension in France makes the opening of the newspaper. A few meters from the National Assembly, the Belgian correspondent testifies: “6,000 people who gather with cries that we heard a lot in the demonstrations: ‘Let’s resist, we are here’ (…). It shows the isolation of Emmanuel Macron who probably did not perceive this that this 49.3 would have the effect.” In Italy, the RAI insists on tear gas against spontaneous demonstrations and the presence of numerous police forces.