On the front page of the press, this Tuesday, September 8, the day after in Germany, where the victory on Sunday of the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt caused a political earthquake. The mobilization, in France, of firefighters, to obtain more resources after a summer season marked by fires. And a new (scented) trend among masculinists.
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On the front page of the press the following day in Germany, where the victory on Sunday of the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt caused a political earthquake. A victory hailed by Trumpists in the United States, where Donald Trump indulges more than ever in his passion for new place names.
“The result (of these elections) is a shame that leaves one outraged and speechless”: the weekly Die Zeit quotes the head of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora camp memorials, who was among the demonstrators gathered yesterday in Berlin and in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where regional elections will also be held on September 20. “Giving up is not an option” reacted Friedrich Merz, “a chancellor in crisis”, according to Der Tagesspiegelwho urges him to finally carry out the reforms promised at the start of his mandate almost a year and a half ago. “Time is running out”: The Financial Times warns that the AfD’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt “is fueled by the same discontent with the governing coalition that is spreading throughout the country.” The British daily considers it “increasingly unlikely that the most unpopular Conservative chancellor in modern history… possesses the qualities and ideas necessary to reinvigorate his faltering coalition and regain the confidence of voters.”
These doubts are shared by the French daily Release. For the newspaper, Friedrich Merz “reacted weakly” to this “thunderclap” which “exceeds German borders”. Libé judges Ulrich Siegmund, the head of the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt, “a creepy brown” and affirms the party’s program centered on “anti-immigration, anti-minorities and ultranationalist” measures is “unprecedentedly radical”. Unprecedented, really? In the Belgian newspaper The eveningresearcher Sophie Schmalenberger explains that the far-right party “certainly condemns the Nazi past, publishes messages during commemoration days saying in essence: yes, Nazi Germany was horrible”, but that “this is not what should define the Germans”, and that it ultimately imposes “a conception of German history in which the Shoah no longer really matters”.
The AfD’s victory in Germany was welcomed by Trumpists in the United States. Releaseagain, reports that his success was praised both in Moscow and by the Maga, although Donald Trump “has not officially commented on the victory.” The President of the United States still published on his social network an infographic devoted to the German results, “indicating that he was closely following” these elections, the outcome of which appears, according to Libé, “as a new stage in the internationalization of the Maga movement”.
Donald Trump, whose passion for new names cannot be denied. The Washington Post reports that he published, or had published, on Sunday, an “avalanche” of messages on social networks, around sixty in total, which in turn sparked “a deluge of memes and taunts”. Among these presidential messages, two posts renaming places, the first, published on Xrenaming the state of New Mexico “New America.” And the second, on his personal network, Truth Socialshowing the United States of America stretching from Mexico to Greenland via Iceland, Canada and the French West Indies – that’s new. Regarding Greenland, nothing new. The Wall Street Journal tells how the territory “takes advantage of threats” of annexation from Trump to better take advantage of its position as a strategic pivot and attract investments from its European allies. Ursula von der Leyen, the boss of the EU, was in Greenland yesterday to announce investments worth 200 million euros in the minerals, satellite communications and renewable energy sectors.
From ice to fire. In France, firefighters are today beginning a mobilization lasting more than six weeks to obtain more resources. THE Courier Picarda local newspaper, specifies that the movement begins when the Civil Security modernization bill is presented after a summer season marked by fires of unprecedented intensity. First demands of the unions: hiring and health. Releasewhich recalls the “heavy human toll” of this summer, four firefighters dead in a little over two weeks and more than a hundred injured, indicates that immediate physical injuries are not the only threat for firefighters faced with “sanitary time bombs” during the intervention and after the flames have been extinguished, in particular toxic fumes and soot, which can enter their respiratory tract.
A word, to end on a trend which apparently appeals to masculinists, these men opposed to equality between the sexes. No longer wash to preserve your natural body scent, banish deodorant and keep your clothes well soaked with perspiration to seduce women: such is the principle of this new fad called “pheromone maxxing”, the “maximization of pheromone”, this chemical substance produced by animals and which is used to transmit a signal. The small problem, raised in particular by Le Figaro Madameis that to date, there is no solid scientific evidence to say that humans have pheromones. In other words, not showering and putting up with the smell is more of a personal challenge, I would say, than a completely reliable strategy of seduction. But of course everyone does what they want – from a respectable distance.
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