Meeting. French Presidents Emmanuel Macron, Polish Andrzej Duda and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will coordinate on military aid and security guarantees to be provided to Ukraine during a working dinner on Monday at the Elysee Palace in part of the Weimar Triangle, announced the Elysée. This dinner will prepare for the next NATO summit on July 11 and 12 in Vilnius, of which Ukraine will be at the heart, as well as the European Council on June 29 and 30. The last meeting between the three leaders in the so-called “Weimar” format, a platform for regular exchanges between Paris, Berlin and Warsaw, was held on February 19, in Germany, on the occasion of the Munich Conference on Security.
Lyon-Turin. The Lyon-Turin rail link project continues to be debated. Thursday, a mobilization will take place in support of this creation. On Saturday, it is the opponents who will meet to express their rejection of this railway line. Tuesday, June 6, a large majority of mayors of the metropolis of Lyon called for “sacred union” to defend this project, denouncing the attitude of the executive of the agglomeration and urging the government to respect its commitments. “We refuse to turn our backs on Italy”, launched Tuesday Gilles Gascon, mayor of Saint-Priest, during a press conference devoted to this “solemn appeal” signed by the city councilors of 42 of the 59 municipalities of Greater Lyon, mainly right-wing and central.
Hellfest. Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Kiss, Pantera, Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Parkway Drive, Rancid, Papa Roach or even Amon Amarth and Porcupine Tree. All will be on the stages of the Hellfest, metal festival, which opens Thursday June 15 and which will end on Sunday June 18, in Clisson, in Loire-Atlantique. A festival that has managed to find its audience, because, since 2014, Hellfest has sold out months before its program is known.
Final. The Netherlands or Croatia? Spain or Italy? One of these four teams will win the Nations League on Sunday June 18 and succeed France. The semi-finals are played on Tuesday and Wednesday and promise great matches given the pedigree of the four teams still present in the competition.
