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Put “France on hold”: this is the objective of the great day of mobilization against the pension reform. Truckers deployed filter barriers on Monday morning, adding to the expected disruptions in transport. SNCF and RATP have warned that traffic will be badly affected. Only one train in five will run for the TGV Inoui and Ouigo, the same for the TER, and two trains out of three on average on the international Thalys and Eurostar connections.
In Paris, metro traffic will be restricted on most lines, mainly at peak times, except for lines 1, 14 and 4. The RERs will have between one train in two and one train in three on the RATP side, and between one in three and one in five on the SNCF side. Production cuts continue in the electricity sector and 60% of striking teachers are expected in primary education.
Reusable periodic protection reimbursed
Guest of the show ” It’s up to you ” this Monday, Elisabeth Borne announced the reimbursement, as of next year, reusable periodic protections for those under 25 from 2024. The Prime Minister specified that it will be necessary to buy them in pharmacies “to be reimbursed by Social Security”. No prescription will be necessary.
In December 2020, the government announced that it would increase the budget devoted to the fight against menstrual poverty to 5 million euros.
Don’t Look Up. Greenhouse gas emissions due to the digital uses of the French could be multiplied by almost three by 2050 if no action is taken by then. This is the conclusion of a joint study by Arcep and Ademe, the third part of which was submitted to the government on Monday.
In this scenario, the digital carbon footprint (which weighed 2.5% of the national footprint in 2020) would jump by 187% in 2050. The consumption of metals and minerals would increase by 59%, and energy consumption by 79%. %. The expected growth in uses would also require the creation of new data centers which would represent 22% of emissions by this date.