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With the announcement of the unprecedented slippage in the public deficit, the government is looking for money and unemployment insurance could well pay the price. Gabriel Attal brings together the entire government this Wednesday morning at a time when social spending is in his sights. According to Matignon, the seminar will focus on encouraging people to return to work, including the contested reforms of the RSA and unemployment insurance, on “de-employment” or low wages, and on new forms of work. like the four-day week, still at the experimental stage. To reveal the first thoughts and talk about the unemployment insurance reform, the Prime Minister will then go on TF1 to be interviewed on the 8 p.m. news.
The toll of the tragedy in Baltimore promises to be heavy. Rescuers on Tuesday evening suspended searches around the bridge which collapsed the previous night after being hit by a container ship, with US authorities believing that the six missing people were now presumed dead. “Based on the duration of the searches carried out […], from the temperature of the water, at this time we do not estimate that we will find these individuals still alive,” said Coast Guard Vice Adm. Shannon Gilreath. The victims are believed to be public works workers who were working on the Francis Scott Key Bridge when it collapsed, with an official from their company telling local press that six of them were presumed dead.
The cost of the consequences of climate change turns out to be particularly steep. In 2023, climate disasters in France will cost 6.5 billion euros to insurers who are worried about the “change of scale” and the acceleration of these devastating events, Florence Lustman, president of France Assureurs, said this Wednesday. . According to her, 2023 was even “the third most serious year in terms of climate disasters after 1999 and 2022”. The year 1999, marked by storms Lothar and Martin, remains the worst so far with an estimated cost of 13.8 billion euros in constant euros, followed by 2022 whose climatic events cost 10 billion euros to insurers. In the years 2000 to 2008 “we were on average 2.7 billion euros per year”. Then between 2010 and 2019 “we rose to 3.7 billion. And if I take the average over the last four years, including 2022 and 2023, I am at six billion,” she added.