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Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced new aid for the 10 million most modest "workers" who need their car to get to work: a fuel allowance of 100 euros.
It will be available from the beginning of January.
This aid represents a discount of 10 cents per liter “if you drive an average of 12,000 km per year, which is the average for the French”, according to the head of government, who spoke at the microphone of RTL.
The system will have an envelope of approximately 1 billion euros.
To benefit from it, you "will have to go to the Tax website, indicate your tax number, fill in your license plate and complete a sworn statement to benefit from it", specified Elisabeth Borne.
What else to remember
Historic victory for Morocco against Spain.
The Atlas Lions brought down La Roja on Tuesday evening (0-0, 3-0 on penalties) and are invited to the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup. This is a historic achievement for Morocco, which equals the best performance of an African nation at the World Cup.
By leaving Spain, Walid Regragui's team, exciting since the start of the tournament, avoids a repetition of the scenarios of 2018 or 2006, when the quarter-finals had turned into a duel Europe - South America.
Morocco will now face Portugal on Saturday at 4 p.m.
Faced with possible power cuts, the government is reassuring.
The Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, assured this Wednesday that people at high risk of life will be subject to personalized follow-up if France is to be confronted with power cuts in the coming weeks.
This development comes two days after a statement by the spokesperson for Enedis, who said that "people who are at high risk of life" were "not among the priority customers defined by the prefectures".
China announces general relaxation of anti-Covid rules.
The Chinese government is abandoning its tough approach to the virus after historic angry protests across the country.
According to the new official guidelines, “asymptomatic infected people and mild cases who can be isolated at home will generally be isolated”.
In addition, the country will "further reduce the scope of nucleic acid tests and reduce their frequency", whereas until then it had asked residents to test themselves several times a week to be able to access any public place.
LFI withdraws its bill on the reintegration of unvaccinated caregivers.
While the RN had decided to include the text of the deputies on the left on the agenda of its day reserved for the Assembly in January, La France insoumise decided to withdraw its text.
"The suspended caregivers are not intended to serve the communication blows of the RN", justified this Wednesday the group in a press release, adding that it would file "a new bill" on the subject.
It concerns us
Inflated prices upstream, reduced or disguised discounts… Black Friday promotions are not always such.
A survey by the CLCV consumer association reveals that the discounts granted during the operation at the end of November are much lower than announced.
Above all, for a third of the products, the prices were inflated the previous month.
The CLCV therefore advises consumers not to rush before cracking and to study the prices before Black Friday, to spot “possible variations”.