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Flying could prove to be almost impossible this Thursday. Thousands of flights will in fact be canceled during the middle of school holidays despite a last-minute agreement with a union of French air traffic controllers. Air traffic therefore promises to be extremely disrupted in France and indirectly in Europe. More than 2,000 flights in Europe have been canceled and 1,000 risk having to divert to avoid French airspace, according to the main association of airlines on the Old Continent, Airlines for Europe. Three out of four flights will be canceled departing or arriving from Paris-Orly, 55% at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, 65% at Marseille-Provence and 45% on all other platforms in mainland France.
Without officially saying it, Emmanuel Macron enters the battle for the European elections this Thursday morning. For the occasion, the Head of State will deliver a speech on Europe at the Sorbonne. The place is not insignificant. It is at this same university that the tenant of the Élysée gave a speech in 2017, on exactly the same subject. So before knowing the text of this “Sorbonne 2” at 11 a.m., our political journalist Rachel Garrat-Valcarcel takes you back seven years to the heart of the first presidential episode on Europe.
It is a political earthquake in Spain. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced Wednesday to everyone’s surprise that he was “considering” a resignation after the opening of an investigation against his wife for influence peddling and corruption, the result according to him of a destabilization campaign orchestrated by the right-wing opposition. “I need to stop and think” in order to decide “if I should continue to be at the head of the government or if I should renounce this honor,” wrote the socialist leader in a letter published on X. The head of the Spanish government, in power since 2018, specified that he would announce his decision on Monday and that he would suspend his activities until then.