Pension reform: unions must decide today how to proceed with the movement

The unions must decide on Tuesday how to follow up on the movement against pension reform, after a 13th successful day of mobilization on 1 May, by managing their differences in the face of the executive's invitations to resume dialogue on other issues. In the wake of May Day, which brought together nearly 800,000 demonstrators in France according to the police (and 2.3 million according to the CGT), union officials met by videoconference in the morning. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the mobilization during this first unitary Labor Day since 2009 remained strong after 12 days of parades and well beyond a classic May Day, without reaching the record levels of the end of January

Clashes: Heavy fighting shook Khartoum on Monday

Despite the announcement of a truce between the army and the paramilitaries, whose clashes have brought Sudan to the brink of a “disaster” and could force “more than 800,000 people” to flee the country, heavy fighting shook Khartoum on Monday. A witness said he heard “eight military aircraft strikes” while gunfire and explosions are still ringing in different neighborhoods in Khartoum, the capital of five million inhabitants. More than 500 people have been killed and 5,000 injured since 15 April, when two generals, who took control of the country after a coup in 2021, began fighting a fierce battle, according to the still very underestimated toll

AMF: The courts will rule in the battle between EDF and the French State

For months, small EDF shareholders have been fighting against the French State and its plan to renationalize the group, mainly because of the share repurchase price deemed too low. This Tuesday, the courts will make their decision. Indeed, during a hearing before the Paris Court of Appeal on 23 March, the Prosecutor General requested the dismissal of the appeal filed by the rebellious small shareholders of the energy giant. EDF shareholders are challenging the compliance decision issued by the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) in November, which gave the green light to the State to launch this tender offer (public tender offer)

Taxes: The United States is one step closer to defaulting on its debt

Yesterday, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced that the United States is one step closer to a potential default on its public debt after collecting fewer taxes than expected, thus moving towards the point where the country will no longer be able to cope to all its obligations. Indeed, in a letter addressed to the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, and made public by the Treasury, Yellen estimated that the debt wall could be reached “as early as June 1

IN SHORT

During two actions claimed by the Extinction Rebellion and Dernière Rénovation movements, the facade of the Louis Vuitton Foundation and Place Vendôme in Paris were covered in paint by environmental activists.

A police source announced that several brawls broke out Monday afternoon in France in Marseille between supporters and opponents of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, around a polling station open to Turkish nationals for the presidential and parliamentary elections, causing at least four injured.

On the evening of 11 May, the United States will lift the obligation to be vaccinated against Covid-19. This includes federal officials and international travelers arriving by air.

Due to the presence of Russian and Belarusian judokas, the Ukrainian Judo Federation would not send a delegation to the World Championships from 7 to 14 May in Qatar.