LE HAVRE FORUM GATHERS LEADERS OF POSITIVE ECONOMY AND POSITIVE CITIES

POSITIVE PLANET AS A SUPER NGO

Responsible Author: Rahma Sophia Rachdi, Jedi Foster | Paris, Wahsington, Le Havre, 09/30/2018, 23:56 Time

USPA NEWS - Since 2012, Le Havre initiated the historic forum of the positive economy brings together each year the women and men who make the positive economy, a sustainable economy offering the opportunity for current generations to meet their needs without endangering those future generations. During 3 days, personalities and committed citizens meet to highlight their projects and innovative ideas, discover experiences in cities around the world, share and think collectively to multiply the impact of positive actors and accelerate the transformation territories. As climate issues become ubiquitous in current debates, the International Forum of Positive Cities and Territories aims to address these challenges and provide new insights. Every citizen is concerned and welcome: mayors and representatives of agglomerations, regions around the world, business leaders, political leaders, leaders of NGOs and associations, entrepreneurs, artists, economists, scientists, but also the youngest and the general public. A whole range of issues will be debated: smart city, migratory flow, urban mobility, economic development (circular economy, territorial coherence ...)

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FRENCH PM PHILIPPE ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS ON BUDGET & DECISIONS ON FRANCE 2

IN DUEL HE FACES LAURENT WAUQUIEZ

Responsible Author: Rahma Sophia Rachdi, Jedi Foster | Paris, Washington DC, 09/29/2018, 01:04 Time

USPA NEWS - Prime Minister Edouard Philippe answered questions from journalist Lea Salame and Thomas Sotto on the TV Channel France 2, as well as French citizens on topics as concrete as the power of purchase, the "poor" situation of angry retreats because of the increase of the CSG tax, as well as the analysis of the images showed in a mini film. The Prime Minister was invited to pause on the images of the film that they consider too polemic or too polemical, undermined when it comes to the "tough" sentences said by the President of the Republic Macron, such as that of "You just need to cross the street to find a job "when he responded to a young jobless horticulturist who had questioned him, last September 18th, at Elysee Palce visit, for Heritage Day. Further the political show, the polls indicate that 60% of the French people see Edouard Philippe could be a head of state, and 44% were convicted by his performance interview at this show.

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POLLS GO DOWN FOR PRESIDENT MACRON DUE TO THE BENALLA CASE & POOR ECONOMY

ALSO TENSE POLITICAL CONTEXT IN FRANCE

Responsible Author: Rahma Sophia Rachdi, Jedi Foster | Paris, Washington DC, 09/27/2018, 04:15 Time

USPA NEWS - PRESIDENT MACRON FALLS IN SURVEYS DUE TO BENALLA'S CASE BUT NOT ONLY
Regarding polls and the impact of the Benalla Affair on the image of the President, 73% of French believe that the case has tarnished the image of President Macron. Even in the rank of loyal supporters, they are more than half of its voters to feel that this case has had a negative impact on the image of the President of the Republic. This corresponds to the same proportion as during the month of last July. By a very large majority, the French are still shocked by the Benalla affair. Two months after the revelations of the newspaper Le Monde, they are still 74% to declare themselves shocked by the case, reveals a poll "The opinion live" led by the Elabe Institute for BFMTV (*), published this Wednesday. Among them, 40% say they are "very shocked" by the case.

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AQUARIUS END CLAP FOR THE LAST RESCUE BOAT OF MIGRANTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

SOCIALIST MPE WANT NGO FOR SAKHAROVPRIZE

Responsible Author: Rahma Sophia Rachdi, Jedi Foster | Paris, Washington DC, 09/27/2018, 04:08 Time

USPA NEWS - The Aquarius, a rescue boat for migrants in the Mediterranean, chartered by the NGOs SOS Méditerranée and Médecins sans frontières, has just lost the flag it had just obtained, just one month after being deprived by Gibraltar of its flag . In withdrawing it, Panama decided, under pressure from Italy, not to allow it to continue its operations.From now on no more rescue boat associates will cross the Mediterranean, leaving the migrants in the hands of the Libyan coastguard.

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