What has happened in the last forty-eight hours? Our editorial team has selected five news items for a quick recap of the weekend’s news…
1. The XV of France crushed England
English rugby players had never suffered such a rout on their land. By winning 53 to 10 at Twickenham during the “Crunch”, the XV of France entered the history of its sport on Saturday. In front of a record audience, Fabien Galthié’s men, very moved at the end of the match, got their hands on the match from the start, Ramos scoring a try in the 2nd minute. They will not return it, scoring six more, for a victory that maintains the slim hope of a final victory in the Six Nations Tournament.
More info: Discover in a few figures the unique character of this brilliant victory. For the occasion, we took out the bullet points, it’s more serious.
2. No 49.3
“We don’t want 49.3. “Speaking Sunday evening, after a meeting in Matignon, the spokesman of the government, Olivier Veran, traced the path. “We want to transform our relative majority into an absolute majority and we have given ourselves the means to do so by gradually developing our project”. The day before, the Senate, with a majority on the right, adopted the reform by 195 votes against 112 after ten days of debate, while in the streets, the mobilization seemed to be marking time, bringing together 368,000 demonstrators in France according to the police, a million according to the CGT.
From Wednesday, a joint joint committee (CMP) bringing together senators and deputies will seek to develop a compromise text. If agreed, it will be submitted Thursday for final adoption in the Senate and then in the National Assembly, where the vote should be very close.
More info: In Rennes, the former L’Arvor cinema has been occupied since Saturday evening and the arrival of several opponents of the pension reform. A general assembly was organized there on Sunday. Discover our report.
3. Banking concerns
The financial markets are closed during the weekend but few investors have been able to take the opportunity to rest. The bankruptcy approved on Friday of Silicon Valley bank (SVB) in California is creating a stir. The prospect for start-ups who had their funds on deposit in the establishment of only finding the 250,000 dollars guaranteed by insurance worries observers.
In London, where SVB also officiated, the government expressed its concerns while in the United States the Secretary of the Treasury evoked a “wide range of solutions” while ruling out the possibility of a bailout by the authorities. On the open 7/7 cryptocurrency market, it was the USDC, a token whose value must be modeled on that of the dollar, which unscrewed, losing up to 12% before recovering later in the weekend. end. The reason ? A small portion of the issuing company’s funds were deposited with SVB and some investors worried about the health of the company as a result. The reopening of stock exchanges on Monday is eagerly awaited.
4. A counter-offensive in Bakhmout?
The Ukrainian army continues to defend Bakhmout on Sunday, with the aim of “buying time” in this city in eastern Ukraine which Moscow has been trying to seize since the summer at the cost of heavy losses. “We need to gain time to accumulate reserves and launch a counter-offensive, which is not far away,” said Ukrainian ground forces commander Oleksandre Syrsky. Evguéni Prigojine, the boss of the Wagner group, claimed for his part a new progression of his men who are fighting on the front line in Bakhmout. If observers doubt the strategic importance of the city in itself, this battle has acquired a symbolic value, both for kyiv and for Moscow, which would like to obtain a victory there after several humiliating reverses.
5. The Oscars are tonight
Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Banshees of Inisherin, Top Gun: Maverick Or Avatar 2… Who will come out on top at this 95th Academy Awards? Answer tonight. To wait until then, you can for example follow on our site the live commentary of the Ligue 1 match between OM and Strasbourg with a very particular tifo. Good evening !