The info not to be missed
It was expected, but it is no less worrying: the unemployment rate jumped 1.9 points in the third quarter of this year, to reach 9%, according to figures released on Tuesday by INSEE.
France now has 2.7 million unemployed (excluding Mayotte), or 628,000 more people over the quarter, between July and September.
This rebound "is on an unprecedented scale since INSEE measures it (1975) but is partly mechanical, as a consequence of the trompe-l'oeil decline linked to confinement", indicates the statistical institute.
The rise in the unemployment rate is more pronounced for 25-49 year olds (+ 2.1 points) and 50 and over (+ 1.7 points) than among young people aged 15 to 24 (+ 0.9 point).
But the young people had suffered more in the previous quarter.
In total, over one year, the unemployment rate has increased more for young people (+ 2.6 points) than for other age groups.
And the forecasts for the future?
Very smart who will be able to say it, so much the reconfinement decided in front of the strong second wave the epidemic of Covid-19 makes complicated the economic forecasts for the end of the year and for 2021.
What to also remember
A new Defense Council, blurring of the shops.
When the reconfinement was announced, Emmanuel Macron had promised to take stock of the situation every two weeks.
The time has come, and Jean Castex will therefore speak on Thursday at 6 p.m., at the end of a new Defense Council.
Will the possibility, mentioned then, of reopening hairdressers, clothing or toy stores be taken?
A priori, no, but the government is working on new rules that would allow these non-essential businesses to reopen on December 1.
Ségolène Royal banged her fist on the table this morning on BFMTV, calling for the shops to be reopened as quickly as possible because "nothing has been proven in terms of health", denouncing "unpatriotic decisions that hurt France".
Former Minister Christophe Castaner felt on France Inter that it was too early to reopen them.
Hope for a vaccine.
It was the big news yesterday, and we are still talking about it a lot this morning: the American laboratories Pfizer and German BioNTech have affirmed that their candidate vaccine against Covid-19 was "90% effective" against Covid-19, depending on the ongoing large-scale phase 3 trial, the last step before an application for registration.
Asked this morning on France Info about this "sacred good news", in the words of an expert whom we interviewed, the ecologist Yannick Jadot was downright in favor of a vaccine… compulsory.
However, it is too early to claim victory, and we will have to wait in particular for the decision of the United States Medicines Agency (FDA), which also granted temporary authorization last night for a new type of treatment against Covid-19. .
The regional postponed?
Another consequence of the current health crisis, the regional ones planned for next March could be postponed.
While the report of the former president of the Constitutional Council Jean-Louis Debré on this question will be given to Jean Castex on Friday morning, Gérard Larcher, the essential president of the upper house, explains to Figaro that "even if the respect of the dates is preferable in a democracy, I am not opposed to postponing the poll to the end of spring for health reasons ”.
Survey on the poll in the United States.
The very loyal American Minister of Justice Bill Barr authorized last night the opening of investigations into possible irregularities during the presidential election of November 3, which Donald Trump assures us that it was tainted with "fraud", without bringing evidence.
This authorization, addressed to the federal prosecutors of the country, does not indicate that the Department of Justice has evidence of the existence of real situations of fraud, specifies Bill Barr.
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The unexpected info
You may have seen it pass, this hilarious video of a euphoric, shirtless American proclaiming live last Saturday at the microphone of BFMTV his love for France, snails, and the "cheese omelette".
Yesterday, Maxime Switek, the special envoy laughed out loud during this sequence which has become totally viral, told us how much he did not expect this “insane” buzz.
Forbes also found the famous Francophile in Washington.
Meka Anyanetu, 30, federal employee, confirms that he finds the French "great", loves their bread and can't wait to return.
As for his “cheese” omelet and not “cheese”, the man, who claims to have taken French lessons and to know the correct pronunciation, explains that he was so upset by the victory of his camp that he came to mind an episode of the cartoon "Dexter's Laboratory", in which a character repeats "cheese omelet, cheese omelet".
I cry pic.twitter.com/e35nw2BQaa
- Pierre Le Texier (@pierre_lt) November 7, 2020
