The new coronavirus continues to overshadow a large part of the news at a time when Europe is waiting for reasons for hope, when the world economy is hard and lastingly hit and when the United States and the United Kingdom pay the heaviest toll of the pandemic. Here are a few things that have happened over the past 24 hours that have nothing to do with the terrible Covid-19.
Farewell to a big car boss
Jacques Calvet had led the PSA group for thirteen years, from 1984 to 1997. This "great industry captain and great servant of the State", as former minister Luc Chatel greeted him, died Thursday at Dieppe (Seine-Maritime) at the age of 88. His family did not specify the causes of his death.
This conservative enarch, who passed through the cabinet of VGE to the Ministry of Economy and Finance, had found on his arrival at PSA a company on the verge of bankruptcy, shaken by the second oil shock. He had left a brand that had returned to the forefront of the global automotive market, but at the cost of numerous site closings and workforce cuts.
Death of the Cachou bear on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees
This six-year-old male, born in the Pyrenees, was found dead Thursday in the Aran Valley, in Spain, on the territory of the commune of Les, bordering on France. It was agents in charge of the environment at the departmental council of Aran who discovered him after noting that he had not moved for several days. The animal's corpse was entrusted to the Autonomous University of Barcelona for an autopsy.
The cachou bear was considered a predator by the authorities of the Aran Valley, which had asked for its withdrawal last August, accusing it of the death of five horses. Bear defense associations considered him "a hope for the future of the species", because of his genetic heritage different from that of his congeners.
There are about fifty bears in the Pyrenees massif.
Heat records for the Easter weekend
The beautiful and hot weather this Friday, with temperatures of 25 ° C to 30 ° C over much of France, will continue until Sunday. Only a part of New Aquitaine, to the southwest, will be entitled to clouds and showers.
This weather worthy of a full summer is accompanied by records: it has never been so hot in Paris in the first ten days of April since the surveys began in 1872. The northern half of the country also records exceptionally temperatures high, as in Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) or Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais).
European fighters for the German Air Force
The German government has not yet officially adopted its decision, but, according to the weekly Der Spiegel, from 2025, aging Luftwaffe Tornado fighter planes will be replaced by a maximum of 90 Airbus Eurofighters and 45 F- 18 of Boeing.
According to a report by the Federal Court of Auditors obtained by the Spiegel, the Tornado is described as a "weapon system which has become obsolete and increasingly characterized by malfunctions and a lack of availability. "
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This choice of the Berlin government, if confirmed, would have the advantage of sparing its European partners with the Eurofighter option, defended in particular by Airbus, but also of not getting angry with the United States and NATO.
Movement at the head of Givenchy
She was the first female artistic director of Givenchy and as such created the wedding dress of Meghan Markle, wife of Prince Harry. British fashion designer Clare Waight Keller, 49, announced on Friday that she was leaving the French fashion house.
Clare Waight Keller, who went to Gucci, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, made herself known by relaunching Pringle of Scotland, before joining Chloé then Givenchy in 2017. She had succeeded the Italian Riccardo Tisci, who had preceded three other British designers: John Galliano, Alexander McQueen and Julien Macdonald.
For the wedding of the then Duchess of Sussex, she had imagined a dress with clean lines, boat neck and three-quarter sleeves, which earned her to be consecrated in 2018 best British stylist (women collection). An award she received from Meghan Markle, then pregnant.
The French brand, founded in 1952 by Hubert de Givenchy and a subsidiary of the LVMH group (which includes Le Parisien), has not yet announced its decisions regarding its new creative team.