With all these ministers on the terrace, it was difficult to find a place to drink a coffee.
On the first day of the third deconfinement of the country, the members of the executive rushed from dawn on the terraces of bars and restaurants to support the return of the French to a more normal life.
Starting with Emmanuel Macron and Jean Castex, seated almost at dawn in a cafe near the Elysee, live on 24-hour news channels.
"A little moment of rediscovered freedom which is the fruit of our collective efforts",
rejoiced the President of the Republic.
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At the same time, some ministers fed their Twitter accounts with photos of themselves, also installed on the terrace.
Bruno Le Maire reading
L'Équipe
.
Marlène Schiappa to discuss with colleagues before the Council of Ministers.
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne to call for
“making this season the spring of restaurants”.
And to send the same subliminal message: Emmanuel Macron was right to impose this date of May 19 to deconfin the country, despite the advice of certain scientists who considered the deadline premature.
Because if the Covid epidemic is slowing, it is far from over.
With his coffee, Macron has also served a series of warnings against a too rapid return to life before.
We must
"remain cautious"
to
"collectively succeed in controlling the epidemic",
warned the Head of State.
This involves maintaining barrier gestures, and in particular wearing a mask in all places.
Aid of 50 euros per child
The day when the French can withdraw it will mark a new stage.
"If it continues to improve, probably in the summer",
it will be possible, hoped the spokesman of the government, Gabriel Attal, at the end of the Council of Ministers, before conceding that indeed
" everyone is fed up with the mask ”.
Before reaching that point, the vaccination campaign must continue to unfold.
"If we manage to organize collectively, to continue to vaccinate, to maintain a collective discipline of citizens, there is no reason that we cannot continue to move forward,"
urged Emmanuel Macron before continuing his inspection tour of the reopening of the country.
In the afternoon, the president arrived in a gymnasium alongside basketball player Tony Parker and footballer Laure Boulleau to kick off the resumption of sporting activities this time.
"A sector which he knows has been particularly affected by the health crisis," said
the Elysee. The opportunity to present the Sport pass, an aid of 50 euros per child for families benefiting from the back-to-school allowance or for children with disabilities. At the same time, the Prime Minister went to a cinema in the Montparnasse district in Paris with the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot to attend the screening of the film
Slalom
.
The opportunity to recall the support provided by the State to theater operators during the health crisis.
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The Head of State's tour will continue on Friday in Nièvre for the reopening of museums and to present the Culture pass. After accompanying the French in their gradual return to life before the epidemic, he will embark on a tour of France to take stock of what remains possible to accomplish before 2022. A tour that coincides with the regional election campaign. An essential ballot since the results will give the last photograph of the electoral landscape before the presidential election. And will make it possible to verify whether the political recomposition is continuing as he had diagnosed it in 2017: he and the progressives against Marine Le Pen and the conservatives.