Tomorrow will be the last day of the year 2024. Concerts and fireworks will be organized on the Champs-Élysées and many events will take place throughout France to celebrate the coming of the new year. The “Grande Soirée du 31 de Paris”, presented by Stéphane Bern, will be broadcast live on France 2.
Like every December 31, the President of the Republic will address the French in the evening. This speech will conclude a very eventful year on the political level – reshuffle, dissolution, early legislative elections, censorship…
2 – Trip by François Bayrou to Reunion
Prime Minister François Bayrou.
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Prime Minister François Bayrou visited Mayotte today, two weeks after the devastating passage of Cyclone Chido. The discussions mainly concerned the supply of water and electricity as well as infrastructure, heavily affected by the cyclone.
This Tuesday, December 31 in the morning, the tenant of Matignon will travel to Reunion Island. The objective of this trip is to address certain logistical aspects of crisis management in Mayotte, such as evacuations, food deliveries or the organization of the airlift linking Reunion Island to the Mahorais archipelago. , both located in the Indian Ocean. François Bayrou's return to Paris is planned for the early hours of 2025.
3 – Trip by Sébastien Lecornu and Jean-Noël Barrot to Lebanon
The Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot will be in Lebanon this Tuesday, December 31. They will go to the UNIFIL camp to spend New Year's Eve there, with some of the 700 French soldiers deployed there.
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After meeting today in Beirut with General Joseph Aoun, who is to lead the deployment of soldiers in Lebanon after the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah (which came into force on November 27), Sébastien Lecornu will discuss tomorrow with General Edgar Lawandos. He represents Lebanon within the ceasefire monitoring committee which also brings together Israel, the United States, France and UNIFIL.
4 – Setting up a nominative ticket office for OL, OM and PSG matches
From this Tuesday, December 31, 2024, nominative ticketing will be set up to attend the matches of Olympique Lyonnais, Olympique de Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain. This ticketing, requested by the Ministry of Sports, will be deployed over the next year for other Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs. The objective is to individually sanction troublemakers in the stadiums. The year 2024 was indeed marked by numerous incidents within stadiums, particularly anti-Semitic ones.
5 – The Good News of the day
The presbytery of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, designed in 1866 by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, is now classified as a historic monument. The good news was announced last week by the Ministry of Culture. Last November, the National Commission for Heritage and Architecture issued a favorable opinion on this request, formulated by Rachida Dati.
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