Did you miss the news this early morning? We’ve put together a recap to help you see things more clearly.
Since Wednesday, the subject of the atomic bomb has returned to the news of the conflict in Ukraine. During a meeting in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin indeed blew hot and cold on this issue. “The threat of a nuclear war is growing,” thus estimated the president, but temporizing at the same time: “We haven’t gone mad, we know what nuclear weapons are. According to him, Russia will use this weapon “first under any circumstances”. Unsurprisingly, these statements were not at all to the liking of the Americans. The United States has thus described as “irresponsible” the words “lightly” of the Russian president. In an interview with German media group Funke and West Francepublished this Thursday, Olaf Scholz judges on the other hand that the risk of recourse to nuclear weapons by Moscow has diminished because the international community, including China, “has drawn a red line” to Russia.
The Minister of the Interior continues his fight against Salafism. Gérald Darmanin has banned the coming to France of a Yemeni Salafist preacher, we learned Wednesday evening from his ministry. Sheikh Al-Mohammedi was to take part on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in conferences at the Chilly-Mazarin mosque, in Essonne, as part of a European tour which took him to Rotterdam, Cologne and Molenbeeck. The Minister of the Interior issued an administrative ban on territory (IAT) to prevent his arrival.
Will the Schengen area expand? The answer should be known this Thursday. The European Ministers of the Interior must indeed decide on this question for Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania. The European Commission, like the Parliament, has been calling for a long time to include these three countries in this vast zone within which more than 400 million people can travel freely, without internal border controls. Croatia, a member of the EU since 2013 and which will join the euro zone next January, expects a positive response, barring any surprises. But Romania and Bulgaria, which joined the EU in 2007 and have been knocking on Schengen’s door for more than ten years, are faced with the reluctance of certain States. However, the unanimity of the 26 members of this space is necessary.