This Wednesday, the presidential majority united in committee at the National Assembly to torpedo a proposal to repeal the pension at the age of 64, in the face of strong opposition against an attempt to “muzzle” them. At 9:30am, the examination by the approximately 70 deputies on the Social Affairs Committee is the first round of this text put forward by the independent group Liot (Freedoms, Independents, Overseas Territories), before it arrives in the Chamber on 8 June. Despite the low chances that this initiative has of succeeding at the legislative level, it maintains the flame of those opposed to the reform, before another day of mobilization on 6 June

Social fraud: The government intends to double the number of adjustments by 2027

The government has unveiled a comprehensive plan against social fraud. The latter expects to double the number of adjustments by 2027. This is with a project to merge the Carte Vitale and the identity card, whose terms and conditions are still unclear. The government wants to show its fight against fraud, three weeks after the announcement of a first plan to fight tax fraud, and at a time when French accounts are being scrutinized by rating agencies. In reality, social fraud is estimated at 8 billion euros in social contributions “evaded as informal work”, 2.8 billion euros in social benefits paid by family benefit funds, 200 million by general pension funds and “between 3 and 7% of certain health insurance expenses” according to Bercy's estimate

Spy satellite launch: North Korea announces failure

North Korea announced this morning that it had tried to launch a “military reconnaissance satellite” but that after triggering a missile alert in Japan and an erroneous evacuation order in Seoul, it had “damaged” acute; at sea”. For the state news agency KCNA, “the new Cheollima-1 satellite transport rocket crashed in the West Sea” the Korean name for the Yellow Sea. According to the agency, “a loss of thrust due to an abnormal start of the second-stage engine, after the separation of the first stage during a normal flight.” The South Korean military cited by Yonhap news agency believes that the projectile “quickly disappeared from the radars before reaching its expected point of fall

World Cup: The 30-year-old Frenchman scores an incredible victory against Argentina

In the first round of Roland-Garros after trailing 4-0 in the fifth set on Tuesday evening, the 30-year-old Frenchman won an incredible victory over Argentina's Sebastien Baez (42nd) in the first round of Roland-Garros. Monfils, who came out victorious 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 1-6, 7-5 after 3:47 minutes into the fight, even dismissed a ball 5 games to 0. A very first victory since returning to the circuit in March after a seven-month absence, the fault came from a recalcitrant right foot

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The parliamentary committee responsible for investigating the fatal assault on the Corsican independence activist in prison has published a severe report on the “serious shortcomings” in assessing the dangerousness of Franck Elong Abé, & “Excessive rigor” with regard to Yvan Colonna, and a series of general “dysfunctions

On Wednesday, two intelligence chiefs of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic are facing a verdict on appeal by a UN tribunal over war crimes issues.

Emmanuel Macron considered that the far right should not be fought “with moral arguments.” Participants in the Council of Ministers report that Macron seems to be distancing himself from Elisabeth Borne who had considered the National Rally to be the “heir of Pétain”

After the re-election of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the main obstacle to Stockholm's accession, NATO expressed cautious optimism against a background of pressure from the United States for Sweden to join the Alliance as soon as possible.