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Parliamentarians want to regulate influencers. After the National Assembly, the Senate is tackling this Tuesday a text aimed at better regulating the activity of influencers and fighting against excesses on social networks. Adopted unanimously at first reading at the end of March by the deputies, this transpartisan text, supported by Bercy and the Minister of SMEs Olivia Grégoire, gives a legal definition to influencers and prohibits certain practices. With an estimated number of 150,000 influencers in France, of which only 15% would carry out this activity full-time, this booming sector is in the sights of associations, but also of the government, which has initiated the accelerated procedure on this text.
Nothing is going well between Beijing and Ottawa. Canada announced on Monday the expulsion of a Chinese diplomat it accuses of seeking to intimidate a Canadian MP critical of China, plunging the two countries into a new acute diplomatic crisis. “We will not tolerate any form of foreign interference in our internal affairs,” said Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly. The response from Canada’s second largest trading partner was not long in coming. China announced on Tuesday that it would expel the Canadian consul in Shanghai in retaliation.
To save his head in Ligue 1, FC Nantes plays the card of the new coach. The Canaries have indeed chosen to separate from Antoine Kombouaré and to bet on internal solutions, we learned Monday evening from sources close to the club. Pierre Aristouy, coach of the U19s, will be in charge of leading the team for the last four games of the season, assisted by Oswaldo Vizcarrondo, current coach of the women’s team. Currently 17th and first relegated, two points from Auxerre (16th) and three from Brest (15th) and Strasbourg (14th), Nantes has not won in the league since mid-February. And the team has just suffered three heavy setbacks in just one week: a humiliation against Toulouse at the Stade de France (5-1) and two 2-0 defeats against Brest and Strasbourg, direct competitors for maintenance.