Ministerial crisis: Macron must still announce the name of the next prime minister

The French president must always announce the name of the next prime minister. This is a puzzle that he again failed to solve on Wednesday. The ability not to be immediately overthrown by a motion of censure, the reason given to refuse the nomination of the New Popular Front candidate Lucie Castets, remains on the agenda. On Wednesday evening, the name of Michel Barnier, 73, who was also Jacques Chirac's foreign minister and Brexit negotiator on behalf of the European Union, circulated

Parsi: Automatic shutdown of the Flamanville EPR

The day after its start up, the EPR nuclear reactor in Flamanville (Manche) experienced an “automatic shutdown” on Wednesday, and EDF teams are carrying out technical inspections and analyses before being able to relaunch its “discrepancy”, i.e. worsens; -say the nuclear reaction. The EPR had taken an important step on Tuesday with the achievement of the first nuclear fission. But several steps are still planned before it can really supply the grid with electricity, with potentially technical hazards.

Migration Policy: Homage to the Dead

As French authorities point the finger at London's migration policy, a tribute was paid Wednesday in Calais to the 12 people who died the day before while trying to reach Great Britain illegally. Around sixty community activists and migrants gathered Wednesday evening in a park in Calais and unfurled a huge banner listing the hundreds of deaths that have occurred at the border between France and the United Kingdom since the end of the 1990s.

IN SHORT

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) receives its first delivery of vaccines against Mpox on Thursday. The European Union has unlocked these vaccines and sent by plane from Denmark, with the epicenter of the epidemic expected to obtain 200,000 doses in total

Pope Francis is taking part in an interreligious meeting at the mosque in Jakarta on Thursday.

Fabrice Pannekoucke, must be elected on Thursday as head of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France's second largest region, to succeed Laurent Wauquiez who had to leave his head under laws on the accumulation of mandates.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the first phase of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza has been successfully concluded and has resulted in the first dose being administered to nearly 200,000 children in central Palestinian territory.

France has surpassed the number of titles won at the Tokyo Paralympic Games, with the new gold medal for cyclist Alexandre Léauté, winning his 12th gold medal on Wednesday.