A box with doses of AstraZeneca vaccine. – Peter Dejong / AP / SIPA
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The contract between the European Union and AstraZeneca will be arbitrated by the courts. A hearing is being held this Wednesday before a Belgian court devoted to the alleged violation of the obligations of the laboratory which has not delivered the quantities of vaccines against Covid-19 promised to the Twenty-Seven. The lawyers of the two parties must plead from 9 a.m. before a summary judge of the French-speaking court of first instance in Brussels. Another hearing will take place if necessary on Friday. The decision of the summary judge should be rendered within a few days.
A year ago, on May 25, 2020, George Floyd would die below Derek Chauvin’s knee. Tributes followed one another on Tuesday in Minneapolis, the city of drama, but also at the White House. Joe Biden met George Floyd’s family there. She took the opportunity to call on the US Congress to pass a vast law on police reform to “protect people of color.” Because on the legislative front, things are moving slowly. During his first major speech to Congress at the end of April, Joe Biden called on elected officials to adopt the “George Floyd Justice in Policing Act” by the first anniversary of his death. But it is still under debate in the Senate.
Georges Tron will no longer run the town hall of Draveil, in Essonne, from his prison. Sentenced on appeal for rape and sexual assault in February, the former Secretary of State finally resigned Tuesday from his mandate as mayor, said the first deputy Richard Privat, and replacing the mayor “prevented”. In a letter addressed to the prefecture of Essonne and
cited by the Parisian, Georges Tron affirms that it is about “a very painful decision”.