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The government does not seem to want to change its schedule, as many protests have taken place this weekend against the health measures. The Council of Ministers is due to adopt the bill on Monday including the new measures against the coronavirus, including the extension of the health pass. It will then be scrutinized by Parliament, under the pressure of the resumption of the Covid-19 epidemic. To relaunch vaccination, the government hopes to obtain a favorable vote as soon as possible. The bill should therefore be presented Tuesday at the end of the day in committee in the National Assembly, before the hemicycle the next day. It will be Thursday the turn of the Senate, dominated by the right, with a view to final adoption by the end of the week.
Human rights activists, journalists and opponents around the world have been spied on thanks to software developed by an Israeli company, according to an investigation published on Sunday in several media, including The world, The Guardian and The Washington Post. NSO Group spyware Pegasus, if inserted into a smartphone, can retrieve messages, photos, contacts, and even listen to calls from its owner. Foreign correspondents from several major media, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, France 24, El País, or theAFP would thus have been listened to, as well as Edwy Plenel, Mediapart. Other names of personalities will be released in the coming days by the media consortium that conducted the investigation.
The emotion was palpable Sunday when Angela Merkel went to see the very heavy damage of the dramatic bad weather which hit Germany. The German Chancellor discovered the “surreal” devastation left by the floods, which killed at least 160 people in Germany and 31 in Belgium. A toll that grows every day with many people missing. The Chancellor took almost an hour to survey the village of Schuld, not far from Bonn, where the Ahr river turned into fury and destroyed part of the town. “I would almost say that the German language is struggling to find the words to describe the devastation that has been caused,” said Angela Merkel, who pledged that “the federal government and the regions will act together to gradually restore order In devastated areas.