New olive branch offered to socialists. In a letter addressed to the PS this Thursday, a few hours before the examination of a motion of censure against his government, François Bayrou announced the abandonment of the transition from one to three days of waiting time in the event of sick leave for civil servants. In … Read more
The Senate, dominated by the right, approved on Sunday the “revenue” part of the draft state budget for 2025. The vote was boycotted by the left who denounced a “coup de force” by the government. At the dawn of a high-risk week for the government, which is gambling its survival in front of the deputies … Read more
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who had no opponent, was reappointed Sunday as head of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) following a congress in Seville (south) dominated by corruption cases targeting several of his loved ones. Mr. Sánchez, who has led the party since 2017 (having already been at its head between 2014 and … Read more
MP Emmanuel Grégoire, former first deputy of Anne Hidalgo but at odds with her, will be a candidate for mayor of Paris for the 2026 municipal elections, he told AFP on Monday evening. “To ease tensions, to continue the essential transformations, I want to be the mayor of the reconciliation of Parisians in this city”explained … Read more
François Hollande spoke Monday evening on LCP for a new congress of the Socialist Party at the start of 2025, saying he hoped that the current first secretary Olivier Faure would be replaced. This congress, underlines the former president, must “open the way to a wider gathering, with the friends of Raphaël Glucksmann”the founding MEP … Read more