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Will the French experience the same blockages as the Canadians? The question arises as a “freedom convoy” is active in France. This initiative launched in Canada by opponents of health measures, has been blocking the center of Ottawa for a week. Thousands of people, almost 278.000, according to the Facebook group “The convoy of freedom”, plan to do the same thing on Saturday in Paris, arriving by convoys of heavy trucks but also private vehicles to protest against the
vaccination pass. To arrive on time, several departures are planned from all over the country, including one to
Nice this Wednesday.
Times are hard for the French purse, and it’s not over. Inflation should indeed accelerate a little more than expected in the first half of the year to reach “between 3% and 3.5%,” estimated Tuesday the
Insee. In January, the price increase has already reached 2.9% year-on-year, and this movement is expected to continue with a reflection of increases in food and industrial production costs, driven by the increase in energy prices and
raw materials in recent months. For example, food prices are expected to rise by 2.5% in June year-on-year, compared to +1.5% in January.
From this Wednesday, the world will look at its seas and oceans. A
Brest until February 11, the One Ocean Summit is the first of a series of international events on the subject: a UN meeting on the environment at the end of February that will address the issue of an international agreement on plastic, negotiations in March on a treaty for the high seas, biodiversity and climate COP and a UN conference on oceans in Lisbon in June. In Brittany, NGOs will try to warn about the mining of the deep ocean. After decades of oblivion, there is indeed a renewed interest in the mineral resources at the bottom of our oceans today. Our journalist Fabrice Pouliquen takes stock of the situation for you just before the opening of the summit.
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