Did you miss the news early this Wednesday morning? We have put together a summary to help you see things more clearly.
This is an exercise that the Head of State has not undertaken for five years, outside of his re-election campaign. Tuesday evening, from the Elysée village hall and in “prime time” on television, Emmanuel Macron held a major press conference presented by his entourage as a “new stage” of his “meeting with the Nation “. The president especially took the opportunity to decline his theme of “rearmament”, which he had started during his wishes of December 31. And this is clearly on a fairly conservative axis, with a mix of: the school uniform test which will be generalized if it is conclusive; a pro-natalist policy via a new birth leave and a major plan against infertility; the continuation of the policy of prohibition against drugs; no more police presence in the streets or even the compulsory learning of “La Marseillaise” at school. But in the end, the head of state did not convince many people outside his political family, not even at LR, with Éric Ciotti who denounced “a long exercise in self-satisfaction”.
Part of France will be cold this Wednesday and will have to be vigilant. Freezing rains and snowfall are falling on a northern third of France. A total of 36 departments going from Haut-Rhin to Finistère have been placed on orange snow-ice or rain-flood vigilance, according to Météo-France’s vigilance bulletin from 6:04 a.m., with traffic expected to be complicated “possibly for a long time relatively long. So to find out everything about this difficult weather episode, the editorial staff of 20 minutes mobilizes all day long with a Live and articles.
French athletes now know how they will be dressed in less than 200 days. The official outfits of the French team made by Le Coq sportif for training, strolling in the Olympic village and climbing on the podiums of the Paris-2024 Olympic Games, were unveiled Tuesday evening at the headquarters of the French Olympic Sports Committee. In total: more than 1,100 models to dress nearly 800 athletes, in 63 Olympic and Paralympic disciplines. These outfits, 80% of which will be entirely manufactured at the historic factory based in Romilly-sur-Seine in Aube, were designed by stylist Stéphane Ashpool, with “mixity as a guideline” and a nod to those of the 1924 French team.