A tumultuous day at the Assembly: towards the adoption of the text against the risks of “dismantling” EDF

The Assembly had another tumultuous day on Thursday. Starting today, the socialist group will leave with several unanimous victories, including the adoption with all the opposition of its text against the risks of “dismantling” EDF. During a day reserved for texts from the group of PS deputy Philippe Brun, his bill was examined and adopted at first reading with 205 votes to 1 and against the opinion of the government and deputies from the presidential camp, who had deserted the hemicycle before the vote to denounce a “masquerade”.

Pension reform: employees will meet again on Saturday

Before two new dates on 16 February and 7 March, employees are called to mobilize against the pension reform on Saturdays. This is a call from unions who want to establish the protest movement over time, and in some cases move towards renewable strikes. Since the start of the movement against raising the legal age of departure to 64, this is the first time that unions have organized a demonstration on the weekend, anxious to allow everyone to demonstrate. The authorities are planning just over 200 actions, bringing together 500 to 700,000 people outside Paris.

State aid: the leaders of the 27 paved the way for further relaxation of the rules

On Friday, the leaders of the 27 paved the way for further relaxation of state aid rules in the EU on Friday, in the face of massive American subsidies. They did so in a “targeted, temporary and proportionate” manner to avoid fragmentation of the single market. The European heads of state and government announced in a joint declaration that, with regard to state aid, “procedures must be made simpler, faster and more predictable, and allow for the rapid deployment of targeted, temporary and proportionate support (...) in strategic sectors for the ecological transition”.

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