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Zelensky will meet Macron, Ciotti is annoyed by the strike at the SNCF, the State condemned over Covid-19... The 3 news to remember at midday

2024-02-15T11:14:25.429Z

Highlights: Zelensky will meet Macron, Ciotti is annoyed by the strike at the SNCF, the State condemned over Covid-19... The 3 news to remember at midday. Find the essential news published this Thursday, February 15 in the morning on our site. The number of the day: 4000 or the number of trees potentially felled in Haute-Marne for “road safety” reasons. The memorable photo to remember: Fishermen use large nets to catch fish under the seaweed in Râjshâhî, Bangladesh.


LE POINT DE MIDI - Find the essential news published this Thursday, February 15 in the morning on our site.


War in Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelensky will meet Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday

Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelensky on October 5.

LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP

French Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will sign a security agreement between their two countries on Friday at the Élysée, the French presidency announced on Thursday.

“This agreement follows the commitments that were made in G7 format on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius in July 2023

,” recalled the Élysée.

SNCF: “We are going to very clearly establish legislative texts to regulate the right to strike”, announces Éric Ciotti

Éric Ciotti, president of the Republicans.

THOMAS SAMSON / AFP

While a strike by SNCF controllers is looming this weekend, Gabriel Attal regretted

"a form of habit, with each vacation that arrives, of having the announcement of a strike movement"

at the railway operator.

An observation widely shared by Éric Ciotti, guest of the TF1 morning show this Thursday.

“We must stop taking the French hostage.

Since 1947, there has not been a year when the SNCF has not been on strike, and always at decisive moments, at times when families get together, go on vacation

,” said the president of the Republicans. (LR).

Covid-19: State condemned for preventing man from seeing his dying father during confinement

The State was ordered to pay him 12,000 euros in compensation for the damage suffered and for legal costs.

DragonImages / stock.adobe.com

A winegrower from Loir-et-Cher, prevented by gendarmes from going to the bedside of his dying father during the first confinement in April 2020, succeeded in having the State convicted for gross negligence, we learned on Wednesday 14 February with his lawyer.

“I sleep much better now

,” Patrice Dupas told the newspaper

Le Parisien

, which revealed the information.

For a long time, he had wondered about his share of guilt for not being able to see his father before his death.

Quote of the day

Quote of the day.

LE FIGARO

A strike is a movement organized by employees to demand payment for the days they did not work.

Philippe Bouvard

The number of the day: 4000

Or the number of trees potentially felled in Haute-Marne for “road safety” reasons

.

The LR president of the Departmental Council, Nicolas Lacroix, indicated that only sick or dangerous trees would be felled, a decision which would be taken

“tree by tree”

.

The memorable photo to remember

Fishermen use large nets to catch fish under the seaweed in Râjshâhî, Bangladesh.

Bipul Ahmed / Solent News / SIPA

Source: lefigaro

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