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The strategy of rebellious France against the pension reform does not please its allies. Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s movement suffered a salvo of criticism on Sunday, particularly from other opponents of the government’s text. In question, the choice of the disobedient to maintain until the end their thousands of amendments, which did not make it possible to examine, in the allotted time, article 7 which postpones the legal age of departure from 62 to 64 years old.
This obstruction divided even within the Nupes, ecologists, socialists and communists ending up withdrawing their amendments. And on Sunday, the boss of the CGT Philippe Martinez, in turn, strongly regretted this strategy on BFMTV: “The heart of the reform was 64 years old, and the fact that there was not a single debate and no vote is a problem. »
The tension does not fall around the Korean peninsula. Pyongyang fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Monday morning, Seoul said, information also confirmed by Tokyo. Shortly after, North Korea released a statement saying it had “twice fired multiple 600mm rocket launchers” into the Sea of Japan.
This launch comes especially less than 48 hours after Pyongyang carried out what it described as a “surprise” exercise to fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). In response, Seoul and Washington held joint air drills on Sunday. This Monday morning, the sister of the North Korean leader, Kim Yo-jong, warned that “the frequency of use of the Pacific as a firing range depends on the type of action of the American forces”.
Will the United Nations succeed in agreeing on the protection of the oceans? The UN indeed begins this Monday, and until March 3, negotiations to try to give birth to a treaty to protect the high seas and avoid new damage which would see the objective of preserving 30% of the planet by 2030.
After more than 15 years of informal and then formal discussions, this is the third time in less than a year that the negotiators have met in New York for what is supposed to be the last session. But this time, cautious optimism seems in order that this session will be the right one, encouraged by the historic agreement reached in December in Montreal during COP15 on biodiversity. All countries in the world then committed to protecting 30% of all land and oceans by 2030. An almost insurmountable challenge without including the high seas, of which only about 1% is protected today.