New health rules and controversy over the European flag under the Arc de Triomphe … Informed about the morning of January 3

Around Marc Fauvelle and Renaud Dély, to decipher the news of Monday January 3, Rosalie lucas, political journalist at Parisian-Today in France, and Jean-Jerome Bertolus, head of the political service of franceinfo.

The themes :

– The return of compulsory teleworking, the wearing of masks outside on part of the territory for children, a new test protocol in schools … new rules come into force in this return. But there is nevertheless an air of optimism on the side of the government, despite a peak in contamination linked to the Omicron variant. This Omicron wave could be the last, according to Olivier Véran, because “It is likely that we will all soon achieve collective immunity, by being either vaccinated or infected, or both”. Is the executive right to be so optimistic?

– The European flag was installed under the Arc de Triomphe Friday, December 31, for one day, to mark the start of the French presidency of the European Union, from January 1 to June 30. The replacement of the French flag by that of the EU created a controversy on the right and the extreme right. The European flag was withdrawn in the morning, Sunday January 2, in accordance with what was planned, assures the Elysee. The opposition on the right welcomes a decline in the executive.