Deepening America's traditional alliances: Biden welcomes Macron to the White House

Joe Biden promised to revive and deepen traditional US alliances. Indeed, today he is deploying all the pomp and circumstance of the White House to welcome Emmanuel Macron, and to try to ease tensions over his industrial revival projects, deemed “aggressive” by Paris.

The French president said yesterday that the alliance with the United States “is stronger than anything”, but that Europe must not become an “adjustment variable” at a time when Joe Biden throws all the forces of the world's leading power into rivalry with China. Emmanuel Macron will be entitled to all the pageantry associated with a state visit.

Note that he is the first person to whom the American president has given such treatment since his inauguration in January 2021.

Food price inflation: Supermarkets and food manufacturers at the negotiating table

In an explosive context, supermarkets and food manufacturers are once again returning to the negotiating table to discuss next year's prices. The president of the E.Leclerc strategic committee, Michel-Edouard Leclerc, said in view of industrialists' requests for tariff increases, said he expected a “tsunami” of food inflation next year. Thus, agribusiness companies, strangled by rising production costs, will once again try to convince supermarkets to buy more for their yogurts, minced steaks and other products that they will put on their shelves.

World Cup 2022: Germany and Belgium follow up on Thursday

Germany and Belgium play their survival at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar on Thursday. One being a four-time world champion and the other a semi-finalist in 2018. French referee Stéphanie Frappart will become the first woman to lead a men's World Cup match.
Four new tickets to the round of 16 are up for grabs the day after Lionel Messi's Argentina and Robert Lewandowski's astonishing Australia and Poland qualified against France on Sunday.

IN SHORT

As the annual wage negotiations begin, December promises to be a tumultuous December at SNCF with the first movement of controllers forcing the company to cancel 60% of its TGV and Intercity-owned trains from Friday to Sunday.

Civil servants start voting online in professional elections on Thursday, four years after the last professional elections. A vote that will last until December 8 for public officials who vote at the ballot box.

Yesterday the National Assembly condemned Russia's “crime of aggression” against Ukraine, in a resolution passed by a large majority, affirming its “fullest support” for Kiev.

On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, the Senate dominated by the right-wing opposition rejected the 2023 draft budget for agriculture and forestry, which was considered inadequate.

The European Commission wishes to undertake two activities that promise to be difficult. The aim is to work to create a special court to judge “Russia's crimes” in Ukraine and to propose solutions to mobilize frozen Russian assets in order to rebuild this country.