WHO: negotiations to effectively protect the world from future pandemics begin on Monday
Last-chance negotiations to effectively and fairly protect the world from future pandemics begin on Monday at the WHO. The aim will be to find consensus on a draft agreement on a text that has already been watered down by some of its most disputed aspects. The 194 countries of the World Health Organization are returning to its headquarters in Geneva from Monday to 10 May. After two years of work, the negotiators had to face the facts last month. They need more time to try to agree on this historic text on preventing, preparing for, and responding to future pandemics

Public finances in France: a budgetary orientation debate scheduled to start at 15:00 in the hemicycle

The “anxiety-provoking” debates on the deterioration of public finances will be the target on Monday of the sharp arrows of the oppositions in the National Assembly. Criticism will come from both left and right during a “budgetary orientation debate” without a vote, starting at 15:00 in the hemicycle, after a parliamentary break of two weeks.

Tripartite meeting: no “major problems” in the Egyptian proposal for a truce with Israel

On the eve of a tripartite meeting on Monday in Cairo with Egypt and Qatar, an official of the Palestinian movement indicated that Hamas did not identify any “major problems” in the Egyptian proposal for a truce with Israel. l. According to this leader, “the atmosphere is positive, except for new obstacles posed by Israel.” According to him, “no major problem is raised in the observations and requests that Hamas will submit about the content of the Egyptian proposal.”

Genocide: the National Assembly votes on a text on Monday

The National Assembly is due to vote on Monday on a text calling on the government to recognize as a genocide the “massacres” inflicted in 1915-1918 by the Ottoman authorities on the Assyro-Chaldeans, a Christian community originally from Mesopotamia. The “motion for a resolution”, put forward by the president of the Macronist Renaissance group Sylvain Maillard, responds to a recurring request from this community for recognition such as that of the Armenian Genocide.

IN A NUTSHELL

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will announce to the country on Monday whether he is resigning or not, after the opening of an investigation against his wife, illustration, according to him, of a destabilization campaign orchestrated by the right-wing opposition.

Burkina Faso has decided to suspend French-language television TV5 Monde for two weeks, after the BBC and Voice of America. Several foreign news sites, all accused of publishing a report accusing the army of killings, will also be suspended “until further notice

After a controversial constitutional reform, intended according to the opposition to extend the reign of President Faure Gnassingbé, Togolese people are voting on Monday in legislative and regional elections.

The French mixed judo team beat defending champion Georgia in the final (4-0). She was crowned European champion for the second time in her history, in Zagreb

After the defeat conceded by its runner-up Monaco to Lyon (3-2), on the 31st day of Ligue 1, PSG was crowned French champion for the 12th time in its history after the defeat conceded by its runner-up Monaco to Lyon (3-2).