Paris: Bayrou invites political forces on Thursday to Matignon excluding LFI and RN

Before announcing his government, François Bayrou invites political forces to Matignon on Thursday at 14:00 p.m., a delicate exercise between the demands of the various parties and the Republicans who threaten not to participate. The Prime Minister invites the Presidents of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet and the Senate Gérard Larcher, as well as “the presidents of parties and groups who were responsible for the affairs of the country at one period or another of the Fifth Republic”.

Corruption and influence peddling: Nicolas Sarkozy definitively sentenced to one year under an electronic bracelet

For a question of corruption and influence peddling, the Court of Cassation rejected Nicolas Sarkozy's appeal in the wiretapping case, making final his sentence to one year in prison under an electronic bracelet, an unprecedented sanction for a former head of state. In this case, also called Bismuth, Nicolas Sarkozy, 69, is definitively sentenced for corruption and influence peddling to three years in prison, including one year on an electronic bracelet. He was also sentenced to three years of ineligibility.

War in Ukraine: Zelensky in Brussels Wednesday evening

A few weeks before Donald Trump's return to the White House, the head of NATO Mark Rutte welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Brussels on Wednesday evening to discuss the war in Ukraine with other European leaders. This meeting on the eve of an EU summit aims to bring together the “most resolute” European allies in their support for Kiev in order to consolidate thinking on two topics: how to approach the new Trump administration and what more can be done for Ukraine?

Syria: UN calls for “free and fair” elections

After the transition period opened by the fall of Bashar al-Assad and called for the rapid delivery of massive humanitarian aid to the country, devastated by more than 13 years of civil war, the UN called on Wednesday for “free and fair elections” in Syria. A coalition dominated by radical Islamists from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group seized power on 8 December in Syria, ending the civil war that began in 2011 by the repression of pro-democracy protests, which left half a million dead and driven six million

IN SHORT

The American authorities announced on Wednesday that the first serious case of human contamination with the H5N1 virus was detected in the United States, at a time when fears of a possible avian flu pandemic

Donald Trump expressed his opposition on Wednesday to a budget agreement negotiated in the American Congress between elected Republicans and Democrats.

While the executive plans to save 760 million euros, the debates on the vote on the 2025 budget of the Ile-de-France Region gave rise to a political showdown on Wednesday over the reality of the amount of funding devoted to certain sectors.

The Paris Criminal Court delivers its judgment on Thursday at the trial of the resounding kidnapping case of Paul Pogba. A brother and five childhood friends of the player are being sued.

Three weeks before the Champions' Trophy against the same Monegasques, PSG beat Monaco (4-2) and hit a big blow on Wednesday by taking a ten-point lead in Ligue 1.