Hello dear readers,
The epidemic is over. At least in the minds of many French people who no longer have to do with the health protocol. Parents of students and business leaders are calling on the government to ease the pressure. The second wave is not necessarily the least of their worries, but the economy takes precedence.
The executive, which already has a lot to do with the virus, has found a way to get stuck in a new controversy. Christophe Castaner's nonsense about the protests for Adama Traoré is not unrelated.
Have a good day. Here is the German word for the day: funktionslust. Don't ask me how it is pronounced, but it describes "the pleasure in itself of carrying out an activity, especially one for which one has a particular or natural aptitude".
Ronan Planchon, journalist at Le Figaro
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Pressure mounts to accelerate deconfinement
At the Café de Flore, boulevard Saint-Germain, in Paris, on June 2. Chesnot / Getty Images
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