Emmanuel Macron in Corsica. Thursday morning, the Head of State will respond to the aspirations of Corsica, on the occasion of the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the island of beauty. Emmanuel Macron should speak on possible constitutional reform. At the end of February, during the resumption of discussions on the institutional future of the island, which had been stopped for six months, he reiterated his readiness to include possible developments, at the expense of Corsican elected officials and the Ministry of Defense. ‘Interior to present a proposal to him before July 14.
French Academy. Two Goncourt Prize-winning writers, Amin Maalouf and Jean-Christophe Rufin, will face each other during Thursday’s election of a new permanent secretary of the French Academy. Applications to succeed Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, who died in August, were open until Monday evening. A member of the administrative commission indicated that there had been two. The vote is scheduled for Thursday afternoon, according to very simple arrangements. The 35 members of the French Academy are voters. Only votes for one of these two men will be counted.
