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After the cancellation by Canberra of a contract for the supply of French submarines and the establishment of a strategic partnership between the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, the diplomatic crisis continues. A meeting scheduled this week in London between the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly and her British counterpart Ben Wallace was thus canceled at the request of Paris, we learned Sunday from a source at the French ministry. On board the plane that took him to New York, where he is to attend the UN General Assembly and meet Joe Biden at the White House, Boris Johnson has however played the card of appeasement. The British Prime Minister thus underlined on Sunday the “immense importance” of the relationship between the United Kingdom and France, and the “ineradicable” love of London for Paris. But France, for the moment, does not understand it that way. .
France should take a new step towards the Harkis on Monday. Emmanuel Macron will indeed chair a reception at the Elysee Palace dedicated to these veterans alongside the French army during the Algerian War. In front of some 300 guests, the president’s speech, scheduled for 10:30, will “open the repair site”, according to the Elysee. Emmanuel Macron especially wishes to go further than his predecessor François Hollande who, in 2016, had recognized “the responsibilities of the French governments in the abandonment of the Harkis”. The reception is also held five days before the National Harkis Day, which has been celebrated every September 25 since 2003.
Will Justin Trudeau continue to lead Canada? Called to the polls in advance, Canadians will decide on Monday who will form the next government, during legislative elections with an uncertain outcome. The vote is expected to separate the Liberal Prime Minister, who is aiming for a third term, and moderate Conservative Erin O’Toole. If Justin Trudeau called these early elections in mid-August to try to regain the majority he had lost two years earlier, he is, according to the polls, losing his bet. With the erosion of power, he peaked at around 31% of voting intentions, at the same level as his rival Erin O’Toole, still unknown to the general public not long ago.