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After long opposing it, Donald Trump announced legislation on Wednesday forcing his government to make public all authorities’ documents on the Epstein affair. However, the extent of the expected disclosure remains unclear. The Justice Department has one month to provide all the classified documents it has regarding the New York financier, who died in prison in 2019 before being tried for sex crimes, about his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who served twenty years in prison, and about everyone involved in related legal proceedings.
Ukraine accepted a new peace proposal from the United States on Wednesday, at a time when Ukraine is experiencing one of Russia’s deadliest attacks, which left at least 26 people dead, including three children, in a western town. The American plan primarily calls for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia and halve its forces. According to a senior Ukrainian official, the text appeared to repeat maximalist conditions previously put forward by Russia, demands criticized by Kiev as de facto surrender.
The National Assembly approved a tax of 2 euros for “small package”, with 208 votes in favor and 87 against. The measure proposed by the government as part of the examination of the first reading of the State budget targets plots with a value of less than 150 euros of non-European origin. Collecting taxes from them would be used to finance a system of controlling these products.
Darmanin and Nuñez in Marseille to talk about drug bandits
A week after the murder of Mehdi Kessaci, the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Justice will leave for Marseille this Thursday while hopes for the fight against drug bandits are very high. Gérald Darmanin and Laurent Nuñez, former police prefects of Bouches-du-Rhône, will spend the day in France’s second city with judges and investigators on the front lines of this fight. They should also speak in the afternoon with the Kessaci family.
Macron is scheduled to arrive in Mauritius, the first stop on a tour of Africa
Emmanuel Macron begins a five-day tour of Africa this Thursday in Mauritius, with an ever-affirming ambition to build new relationships, against the backdrop of France’s declining influence in its former territories in Africa. The French president is expected to arrive around 10 a.m. in Port-Louis, the capital of Mauritius. He will then travel to South Africa, which hosts the G20 summit on Saturday and Sunday, then to Gabon where he will meet new president Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema.
