The editorial staff of Libération summarizes the main news of Wednesday, September 4.
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Emmanuel Macron procrastinates over his Prime Minister
After days of consultations and political impasse, the Head of State continued this Wednesday, September 4, to test two hypotheses: one from the center left, the former Prime Minister of François Hollande, Bernard Cazeneuve; and the other from the right, with the LR president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand. An appointment of the second seemed to hold the rope for part of the day, before the trail seemed to cool in the evening. Due to the uncertainty of the two expected to resist a censure of the National Assembly, Emmanuel Macron could indeed turn to other profiles to explore. And further prolong the Matignon saga.
Cost of returning to university increases again for students
The Fédération des associations générales étudiantes (Fage) published its annual indicator of the cost of going back to school this Wednesday. On the rise, this figure highlights a precarious youth faced with difficulties in finding food or housing, and the inequalities suffered by foreign students. Thus, according to Fage, a typical 20-year-old student, enrolled in a bachelor’s degree at university and not receiving a scholarship, will have to pay 3,157 euros for this 2024 school year, an amount increasing by 4.4% compared to the previous year.
Russian strike on Lviv kills at least seven
A day after the terrible attack in Poltava, in central Ukraine, which left at least 51 dead, missiles fell on Lviv, in the west of the country, this Wednesday morning. At least seven people were killed and more than forty civilians were also injured. The bombing took place in a residential area in the west of the city, not far from the central train station. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has castigated the Kremlin and called for the delivery of “longer-range defense capabilities,” in order to answer “to the attacks of Russian terrorists.”
Marseille’s Old Port flooded, 12 departments on alert for storms
Heavy accumulations of rain are falling this Wednesday, September 4, on several departments around the Mediterranean, including Var and Alpes-Maritimes. The Old Port of Marseille is notably under water, causing major disruptions in the prefecture of Bouches-du-Rhône. Heavy damage could result from this new “Mediterranean episode”, a common weather phenomenon whose intensity is increasing with global warming.
A harvest of medals for French paracyclists
A historic day for the blue cyclists at the Paris Paralympic Games this Thursday: Alexandre Léauté (C2), Kévin Le Cunff (C4), Thomas Peyroton-Dartet (C3) and Mathieu Bosredon (H3) won gold medals; Heïdi Gaugain (C5), Elie de Carvalho (B), Gatien Le Rousseau (C4), Loïc Vergnaud (H5) and Johan Quaile (H3) won silver; and Florian Jouanny (H2) and Dorian Foulon (C5) took bronze.
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