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The day after his speech on the reindustrialization of France and the "green industry" bill, Emmanuel Macron travels to Dunkirk this afternoon at 15 p.m. A trip during which he must formalize the establishment of ProLogium Technology in the heart of the City of Jean Bart: a Taiwanese semiconductor battery factory for electric cars.
This manufacturer plans to invest 5.2 billion euros locally by 2030, which represents a boon for local employment. A boon that Emmanuel Macron could use to take the National Rally well established locally, while it had already aroused the ire of ecologists by asking for a regulatory pause on environmental standards.
What to remember
- Sarkozy-Gaddafi affair: trial required against the former President of the Republic. The National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) has made its final indictment in the case of suspicions of Libyan financing during the campaign for the 2007 presidential election. The prosecutor's office is trying to determine whether Libyan public money was disbursed in cash by intermediaries "in a close temporality and compatible with possible financing of the electoral campaign".
- Inflation. Consumer pricesrose in France to 5.9% year-on-year in April. This increase reflects a jump in energy prices, while the cost of fresh produce rose 10.6% year-on-year, about 7 points lower than in March year-on-year.
- End of the health measure that restricted access to the U.S. border. Since Friday midnight, thousands of people, including Mexican migrants, have tried to cross the border, a situation that Joe Biden acknowledges as "chaotic". This health measure had been in place since the Covid epidemic thanks to the adoption of "Title 42", which allowed the refoulement of all migrants, including asylum seekers.
- War in Ukraine. The US ambassador in Pretoria accused South Africa of delivering weapons to Russia in December 2022. "We are convinced that weapons have been loaded onto this ship [a Russian cargo ship, moored near Cape Town"] and I would bet my life on the accuracy of this statement," the ambassador insisted, considering that "South Africa's deviation from its policy of non-alignment is inexplicable". Ukraine is nevertheless helpless with the announced delivery of the Storm Shadow long-range missiles by Great Britain.
It's about you
Where are the cheapest fuels? Le Parisien has examined the most interesting prices of the various distributors. As a result, Leclerc offers the best prices. "In our stations, we are at 1.61 euros per liter of diesel on average, recalled on BFMTV Michel-Édouard Leclerc, the president of the eponymous stores. And we're going to keep going down next week. On the other hand, oil giants such as the Anglo-Dutch Shell are the most expensive.