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Après la reprise tendue de la mobilisation des lycéens ce lundi, le gouvernement redoute les manifestations prévues le 6 octobre où pourrait s’opérer une convergence des colères. Sébastien Lecornu a ouvert dimanche une série de chantiers pour répondre à certaines revendications des lycéens. Ce changement de ton et de stratégie sera-t-il suffisant pour amorcer un apaisement ? Marcelo Wesfreid en discute avec Anthony Lattier, co-auteur de la newsletter Playbook Paris de POLITICO.Des questions ? Des commentaires ? Ecrivez-nous sur Whatsapp au +32 494 07 69 41.
A defeat for Pedro Sánchez could reshape the balance of power inside the EU institutions and further weaken the centrist majority that has traditionally underpinned European integration. The loss of the last centre-left government in a major member state could strengthen conservative forces and make progressive lawmakers less willing to cooperate across the aisle. On Monday, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a snap general election for 29 November, after parliament rejected two housing decrees on Friday. His government, widely seen as the last major bastion of progressive policies in Europe, was already under pressure from corruption scandals, the unresolved migration…
Talks between US Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby and five European countries have raised concerns among NATO experts who warn the format risks dividing the alliance as Washington presses Europe to take greater responsibility for its own defence. Known as the Bergen Group after its inaugural meeting in Norway last year, the format brings together Sweden, Finland, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. The UK, France and the Baltic states were not invited. “The bottom line is this is very toxic for an alliance that relies of collective play,” said Fabrice Pothier, CEO of geopolitical consultancy, Rasmussen Global. “Clearly this is…
Published on 05/10/2026 – 16:13 GMT+2 A new study on how people interact with AI agents in the workplace has found that those with a female appearance or presenting as female would get paid less than their male-presenting counterparts for the same work, revealing that gender can influence interactions with artificial intelligence. The findings come just as AI agents are entering the mainstream, with almost 79% of companies reporting the use of AI agents this year and a further 40% of applications using them too, according to IT consulting firm Accelirate. This means that if you are not already working…
“Without delaying the full use of the existing set of instruments, we need a comprehensive framework to complement our toolbox with new legal instruments — in a lean and non-bureaucratic way,” they wrote. The leaders of the EU’s two largest economies want a new tool that would empower Brussels to exclude imports from certain countries. The proposal arrives before Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič flies to Beijing for talks on Thursday, the final round of a four-month process in which Brussels hopes to rebalance its trading relationship with China. The Anti-Coercion Instrument, also known as the EU’s trade “bazooka,” in theory gives…
France and Germany have proposed new powers for the European Commission to counter market distortions as the EU confronts mounting trade pressure from China. In a letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday, accompanied by a policy paper on global economic imbalances, Paris and Berlin called for tools to restrict access to the EU market, diversify supplies and prepare for possible retaliation. Brussels describes its economic relationship with Beijing as unsustainable, with the EU’s trade deficit reaching an estimated €1 billion a day in 2025. It has given China until this month to offer concessions. The issue…
By Serguei Doubine & Euronews Russian Published on 05/10/2026 – 15:02 GMT+2•Updated 16:29 Russian health authorities said on Monday that a laboratory assistant at an anti-plague institute in Siberia who died last week did not have plague, even as quarantine restrictions remained in place across multiple hospitals in the region. Daria Shipilova, 28, a staff member at the anti-plague institute in Irkutsk, may have contracted pneumonic plague after a test tube broke in the laboratory, regional outlets reported, citing unnamed sources close to regional security services. Authorities placed more than 60 institute employees under isolation inside the building from Friday. A relative of…
If you’re heading to Japan for an active holiday you should lace up your walking boots and tackle a 320km-long hiking trail that is now fully open. The Hitachinokuni Long Trail, Japan’s longest loop trail, has been in the works for seven years since first announced in 2019 by the Ibaraki Prefecture and the Hitachi Province Trail Club. Now having opened in September, the hiking destination links six cities and towns across the northern Ibaraki Prefecture, less than a two-hour train ride away from Tokyo. Connecting Kitaibaraki, Takahagi, Hitachi, Hitachi Ota, Hitachi Omiya and Daigo, the route takes hikers through…
The humble apple is one of the most affordable, widely grown and popular fruits in our diet. But have you ever wondered how this fruit travelled across continents and eventually landed on your table? For years, the apples’ story was shrouded in mystery. Thanks to genetic research, we now know that two wild apple species, Malus sieversii from Central Asia and Malus sylvestris from Europe, played key roles in the transformation of the apples. Nestled in the Tian Shan mountains of Central Asia, forests of Malus sieversii, or the wild Sievers apple, still thrive. This species was named after the…
Population growth has added pressure in major urban centers. Spain has gained more than 3 million residents since 2015, including 793,000 in Madrid, 556,000 in Barcelona and 279,000 in Valencia — all cities where housing costs have risen sharply. Sánchez has not been blind to the crisis, calling housing the country’s “great constitutional challenge.” In 2023, he pledged to use “all state resources” to provide 184,000 public and affordable rental homes. But when the government last provided a detailed accounting of the effort, in August 2024, it said only 14,000 homes had been “made available to citizens” through a social…