A day without end

ANDstrange week. To continue to pay, in the absence of a budget, its civil servants, and to avoid a shutdown in the American style, our Parliament must urgently vote on a special, apolitical law, examined today in the Assembly and Wednesday in the Senate: Juliette Vignaud explains to us the effects of this constitutional magic wand. It is also strangely a resigned minister, Bruno Retailleau, who stands at the bedside of the department of Mayotte devastated, on December 14, by cyclone Chido. Basically, for months, the French have been waking up every morning like Bill Murray in the brilliant A day without endprisoners of an eternal restart, of a Republic convulsing like a headless duck and of a president with suicidal levity. But there is perhaps a moral, philosopher Serge Raffy, to this republican fable: because Emmanuel Macron's original godfather, the shady François Bayrou, could well become, now Prime Minister, the ultimate executioner of the head of the 'State…

► WOLVES. There were 280 in 2014, today there are 1,013 in our territory. Wolves are back in France and Alix Vermande tells us, in an ultra-extensive investigation, how the repeated attacks of these protected predators have definitively blurred the world of breeders with the French Biodiversity Office. Michel Barnier, who went to the Livestock Summit in October, understood the despair of the farmers and declared himself in favor of […] Read more