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In the name of “stability” and before speaking by the end of the week, Emmanuel Macron confirmed Monday evening the maintenance at Matignon of Élisabeth Borne, who now intends to make “adjustments” in his government. “To ensure stability and substantive work, the President of the Republic has decided to maintain the Prime Minister”, announced the entourage of the Head of State, who will explain “by the end of the week” in “recalling the clear course which is his,” according to the same source.
Immediately after this confirmation, Élisabeth Borne announced that she “wishes (to have) adjustments” for her government, according to Matignon, and that she “will propose them to the President of the Republic this week”.
The agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain, crucial for world food, expired on Monday evening, hours after a Ukrainian attack which partially destroyed for the second time the strategic bridge linking Russia to the Crimean peninsula that it annexed in 2014.
Moscow had previously made known its refusal to extend the agreement, signed in July 2022 with Ukraine under the aegis of the United Nations and Turkey, denouncing the obstacles to trade in Russian agricultural products. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres reacted to the Russian decision, stressing that “hundreds of millions of people are facing hunger” and that they will “pay the price”.
The mercury continues to approach, or even exceed, 40°C in several regions of Europe and in particular in Greece where several fires broke out on Monday leading to the evacuation of seaside areas, while a new temperature record was set this weekend in western China at 52.2°C. One thousand two hundred children had to leave summer camps threatened by flames fanned by strong winds near Loutraki, about 80 km west of Athens.
In France, seven departments are on Tuesday in orange vigilance: the Maritime Alps, Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud, Var, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Vaucluse and Pyrénées-Orientales.