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Around Nicolas Teillard and Jean-Rémy Baudot, to decipher the news of Friday, December 24: Henri vernet, deputy editor-in-chief at the newspaper The Parisian-Today in France, and Fanny Guinochet, journalist and columnist on franceinfo for Le décryptage éco.
The themes :
– Emmanuel Macron’s economic record eclipsed by Omicron? A figure and a statement sum up these last hours: 91,608. This is the number of positive cases for Covid-19 on Thursday, a record since the start of the epidemic. Olivier Véran warns that “The milestone of 100,000 contaminations per day will be crossed in the coming hours”. Hence this warning from the President of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy: the Omicron variant risks disrupting the entire French economy from the start of the January school year.
– Merry Christmas or happy holidays? Very political wishes … “Happy Holidays to all”, this is Emmanuel Macron’s message. The right, for its part, is more fond of “Merry Christmas”, to the point of turning it into a political fight. “To dismiss Christmas is to dismiss our European heritage”, title of the column published by Valérie Pécresse in Le Figaro Thursday. In the same vein, the National Assembly is waging war against the European Commission, which recommended in an internal document to favor the formula “Happy Holidays” described as “more open and more inclusive”. Is this just a political debate, or does it echo a divide that exists in society?
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