Biden. It’s the first day of his European tour and, to begin, Joe Biden meets King Charles III, for the first time since his coronation, when he was represented by his wife Jill Biden. On Monday, they are expected to mainly address environmental issues, before the President of the United States meets Rishi Sunak, the British Prime Minister. But the heart of Joe Biden’s tour will be the NATO summit on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, where Western allies will discuss their support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion.
Climate. On Monday, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) takes stock of the record temperatures on the surface of the land and the sea. Because the summer of 2023 is gradually taking shape as extraordinary in the human annals. June was the hottest month on record, with the combined effect of climate change and the return of the El Niño phenomenon. And the trend continues in July: Tuesday, July 4, was the hottest day ever measured globally, in any month, at 17.03 degrees, confirmed the European Climate Change Observatory Copernicus, based on preliminary measures.
Summit. Besides Sweden’s entry into NATO, the leaders will discuss Western allies’ support for Ukraine. And if this support were not to be accompanied by membership, kyiv would have to receive “security guarantees” from the West, without any precise timetable being advanced.
Encounter. On Wednesday, Elisabeth Borne receives unions and employers “to build together a new pact for life at work”, wanted by Emmanuel Macron. The CFDT, led by its new general secretary Marylise Léon, the CGT, the FO, the CFE-CGC and the CFTC, representative unions, as well as the Medef, which will be represented by Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, accompanied by his successor from July 17, Patrick Martin, the CPME and the U2P will be there. The announcement of this multilateral meeting with the Prime Minister seems to indicate that the President has had to give up reconnecting in person with the unions for the time being. In an attempt to end the pension crisis, Emmanuel Macron has put forward the idea of ??a “work life pact” and asked the social partners to build the agenda by this summer and then negotiate it. content “until the end of the year”.
According to the prosecution, the Portuguese wanted to blackmail Doyen’s boss, his compatriot Nélio Lucas, by demanding between 500,000 and one million euros to stop publishing compromising documents. From the publication of the salaries of Lionel Messi or Neymar to an accusation of rape against Cristiano Ronaldo, meanwhile dismissed, through the strategies for circumventing Manchester City’s financial fair play or by ethnic registration at Paris Saint-Germain, the football world was deeply shaken by this gigantic leak of information.