Advice. The ministers of the new Borne government are expected at the Élysée on Friday at 10 a.m., the Presidency of the Republic announced on Thursday July 20. The first Council of Ministers of this new government team will be chaired by Emmanuel Macron. Eight members of the government have left Elisabeth Borne’s team, a few ministers have changed assignments and eight personalities have entered the government.
Festival. Kendrick Lamar and Rosalia: the Lollapalooza Paris festival hits hard with these headliners for its July 2023 edition. These two locomotives will be well surrounded at the Hippodrome ParisLongchamp on July 21, 22 and 23, 2023. Also on the bill will be Lil Nas X, from Atlanta, who burst onto the screen thanks to “Old Town Road”, a song at the intersection of hip- hop and country released in 2018. Not to mention Aya Nakamura, the most listened to French-speaking artist in the world since her hit “Djadja”. The “LollaParis”, as it is called, had gathered 120,000 spectators by the summer of 2022.
Legislative. Robust growth, dynamic employment, controlled inflation: in Spain, good economic news follows one another, unlike its European neighbors, without benefiting Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is struggling in the polls. In Spain, the rout of the left in the local elections of May 28 prompted Pedro Sanchez to call early legislative elections on July 23, of which he is given the loser, according to the polls, against the right. It holds its last meeting this Friday.
Album. Blur is getting a new lease on life with The Ballad of Darren, scheduled for July 21. It is the ninth studio album and only the second in the past 20 years. The formation never separated, but its history has been written in ellipses since 2003. This announcement surprised everyone, even the other members of Blur. The album was born last year in full American tour with Gorillaz, the other group of Albarn.