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The arm wrestling continues between Russia and the members of NATO. While Russian military maneuvers near Ukraine and in Crimea began on Tuesday, Westerners wanted to be firm against the Kremlin while hoping for a diplomatic outcome. Emmanuel Macron spoke from Berlin during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The Head of State affirmed that “in the event of aggression, the response will be there and the cost will be very high” for Russia, specifying that there was a “very great unity” between France and the Germany to call for de-escalation. Paris will also host this Wednesday a meeting of high-ranking advisers from Germany, Russia and Ukraine. Emmanuel Macron will then have a telephone interview with Vladimir Putin on Friday.
EDF will know this Wednesday a social movement. Employees of the group will be on strike against the request of the State-shareholder to sell more electricity at low prices to its competitors in order to contain the electricity bill of households and businesses. Faced with soaring energy prices, the government has indeed drawn up an arsenal of measures to contain bills, and honor its promise to limit the increase in regulated electricity prices to 4% in 2022, in a sensitive context a few weeks before the presidential election.
At the Australian Open, Alizé Cornet will have had a great run which ends at the gates of the last four. On Wednesday, the first round nevertheless suggested an exploit by the Frenchwoman against Danielle Collins. In this quarter-final, Cornet indeed kept pace with the 30th in the world in the first set won by the American with a tight score of 7-5. But the second set was on the other hand one-sided. Collins made the entry break and chained the games until winning the set 6-1 and, at the same time, the match.