Unemployment insurance reform: the bill being debated in the French Senate

The first reading of the bill initiating a new unemployment insurance reform begins this Tuesday in the Senate. This text was amended in committee to “give back control to the social partners”, according to the right-wing senatorial majority, “hardened” according to the left. According to Emmanuel Macron during the presidential campaign, this debate also triggers the possibility, by decree, of modulating unemployment insurance so that it is “stricter when too many jobs are not filled, more generous when unemployment is high.” Adopted on 12 October at first reading by the National Assembly, this text put forward by the Minister of Labour, Olivier Dussopt, initially provides for the extension of the current unemployment insurance rules, resulting from a contested reform of the first five years of Macron.

General politics in Italy: The new Prime Minister before the Chamber of Deputies

Giorgia Meloni presents her program to Parliament this Tuesday morning. The new Italian Prime Minister presents her general policy speech to the parliament, one month to the day after the historic victory of her post-fascist Fratelli d'Italia party in the legislative elections. Government sources indicated that Giorgia Meloni “is in the process of putting the finishing touches to the speech she will deliver to the Chamber of Deputies (...) Its intention is to define a programmatic framework (...) with the aim of implementing the commitments made to Italians during the electoral campaign.”

LONDON: Rishi Sunak meets King Charles III

After his victory in the British Conservative Party, Rishi Sunak is due to meet Tuesday morning with King Charles III who will officially appoint him prime minister, the third in two months in a country plagued by unprecedented instability and a profound social crisis. It will be the first time that Charles III has appointed a head of government. Was the current tenant of Downing Street, Liz Truss, received by Elizabeth II on September 6 during an audience at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. The 96-year-old sovereign died two days later.

A former banker and finance minister, Rishi Sunak will become, at 42, the youngest head of government in the United Kingdom's contemporary history after a meteoric rise in politics. He is also the first of Indian origin and the first to come from a former British colony.

IN SHORT

The conflict in Ukraine continues to be reported under the “pretext” of a “dirty bomb” that Moscow again accuses Kiev of preparing. To this end, NATO and the West warned Russia on Monday that it should not create an “escalation”.

The names of the finalists for the Prix Goncourt are exceptionally announced on Tuesday from Beirut. This was in the absence of some jurors who gave up going to Lebanon where they did not feel welcome.

The MSC World Europa was delivered to Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), before leaving for Qatar where it will serve as a floating hotel during the World Cup. It is the first liner built in France powered by LNG (liquefied natural gas), presented as the least polluting in the world fleet.