Oil: the tea towel burns between OPEC+ producers

The 23 members of OPEC+, who had left on Friday on a note of disagreement, will try on Monday to break the deadlock and find an agreement on their production of black gold from August. which is to resume by videoconference at 13:00 GMT (15:00 in Paris and Vienna, at the headquarters of the cartel), between the members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and their ten allies. A plan is on the table: to increase oil production each month by 400,000 barrels per day between August and December, a total of 2 million barrels per day returned to the market by the end of the year.

Covid: caregivers' vaccination obligation more than ever on the table

The debate on the mandatory vaccination of caregivers against Covid-19 has continued all weekend and the executive will multiply from this Monday the consultations, especially around this issue. In an article in the Journal du Dimanche, 96 doctors, including department heads who have become media figures of the pandemic, asked the government "to take the decision of vaccination obligation now" for any employee of a nursing home or a hospital "(s)exposing or exposing people whose it is charged with risks of contamination" to Covid-19. They want a measure "effective before the beginning of September" to "avoid a fourth wave", a fear reinforced by the rapid progression of the Delta variant, very contagious.

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French authorities rescued 78 migrants in the Strait of Pas-de-Calais as they tried to cross the English Channel to reach the British coast, the Maritime Prefecture of the Channel and the North Sea announced.

The boss of TotalEnergies, Patrick Pouyanné, announced that the French energy giant would stop using palm oil in 2023, especially in its bio-refinery of La Mède in the Bouches-du-Rhône.