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This Wednesday is the start of the winter sales, and yet the traders are not celebrating. It must be said that between the Covid-19, the competition of sales on the Internet and inflation, they fear that consumers will not rush into the shops. Buyers now have until February 8 to show sellers they were wrong to worry.
Attention, transplantation: for three days, the heart of the European Union will no longer be in Brussels but in Brest. The Foreign Ministers of the 27 will meet on Thursday and Friday in the Breton city to discuss security on the continent in particular. The heads of diplomacy are due to meet for an informal meeting, with France assuming the rotating biannual presidency of the EU since January 1. They will also be preceded in the city this Wednesday evening and Thursday morning by their counterparts from Defense.
To have a chance to see his participation in the Australian Open definitively recorded, Novak Djokovic decided to keep a low profile. The world tennis number one admitted on Wednesday to having made “mistakes” in filling out his entry form in Australia and in his behavior after testing positive for Covid-19 in December. In a post on Instagram, he also said his team had provided additional information to Australian authorities, who are considering canceling his visa again and deporting him. While waiting to know if this mea-culpa works, Djoko continues to train before the tournament which will start on Monday.