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For his second day in Marseille, Emmanuel Macron will mainly talk about education, a key objective of the “Marseille en grand” plan. After a first day devoted to the fight against drug trafficking, the Head of State will visit this Tuesday a school in renovation of the northern districts. The day before, he had already announced that the colleges would be gradually opened from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and kindergarten accessible from the age of two in priority education districts, starting with those of Marseille.
In Russia, Monday was the day for explanations of Wagner’s abortive mutiny over the weekend. Evguéni Prigojine, the leader of the paramilitary group, thus justified his revolt by the fact that he wanted to save his organization and not seize power. In the evening, Vladimir Putin spoke in turn. The master of the Kremlin posed as the guarantor of internal peace in Russia, ensuring that he had avoided a bloodbath. In his first public statement since the brief rebellion, he thanked the Russians for their “resilience, unity and patriotism” which he said showed that “all blackmail (…) is doomed to failure”.
The EU Court of Auditors is worried. The ambitious European climate objectives for 2030 have “lead in the wing”, she warned in a report on Monday, because “little evidence” proves that the actions and funding planned will be sufficient to achieve them. The EU’s climate plan foresees a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990 by 2030, accompanied by energy efficiency gains and a binding target of 42.5% of renewables in energy consumption. Admittedly, the EU has on the whole achieved the climate and energy objectives that it had set for 2020. But “it succeeded in particular thanks to external factors”, such as the 2009 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic. which have reduced fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.