Recognition of an autonomous status: the French government and Corsican elected officials sign an agreement

On the night of Monday to Tuesday, the government and elected officials signed an agreement on Tuesday on a draft constitutional text providing for the recognition of an autonomous status of the island within the Republic, the result of a broad consensus but not without reserves. Darmanin said that this draft agreement completes the “Beauvau process” initiated by the Minister of the Interior and will now be transmitted to the Corsican Territorial Assembly for

Elimination of “greenwashing” from labels and advertisements: MEPs to vote on Tuesday

MEPs vote on Tuesday to eliminate “greenwashing” from labels and ads, with severe restrictions on carbon offsetting claims and the threat of dissuasive sanctions. The MEPs meeting in plenary are now voting, before future negotiations with the states, on another more ambitious legislative project aimed at banning all environmental claims that are not supported by factual bases

Climate change: the Court of Auditors welcomes an “awareness”

In an unpublished report to be published today, the Court of Auditors welcomes an “awareness” of the urgency of adapting to climate change but calls on the State to play its role as a strategist more clearly and to better quantify the budgetary efforts required. On several hundred pages, the magistrates underline “the need for public action in favor of climate change adaptation to be transparent, coherent and efficient”

Presidential election on July 28: Nicolas Maduro aims for a third term at the head of Venezuela

Nicolas Maduro will be running for a third term at the head of Venezuela during the presidential election on July 28. Maduro was re-elected in 2018 in an election contested and boycotted by the opposition and whose legitimacy more than 60 countries, including the United States and the EU, did not recognize. He was able to maintain himself with an iron fist despite the serious economic crisis the country is going through.

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The government will have to wait until Tuesday to try to get a key article in its controversial merger project between ASN, a nuclear policeman, and IRSN, a technical expert, restored to the Assembly.

Elon Musk's start-up xAI will release the computer program on which its generative artificial intelligence (AI) interface Grok is based this week.

The organizers of the Paris Olympic Games said they were “shocked” by the “racist attacks” made by the extreme right against the singer Aya Nakamura.