Airbus to cut 15,000 jobs, Mirabel plant spared

Airbus announced on Tuesday the abolition of around 15,000 jobs, or 11% of its workforce, a third of which in France, and does not rule out redundancies to deal with the “unprecedented crisis” suffered by the transport sector aerial shot down by COVID-19, a plan immediately deemed “excessive” by the French government. About 5,100 positions … Read more

Supply of masks: behind the scenes of the airlift

After a final turn in the line, the captain of the Air France Boeing 777 cargo ship cut the engines. It was 11:05 p.m. in the cargo area of ​​Roissy Airport on Tuesday. A squad of men in orange or yellow vests invests the tarmac and unlocks the two doors of the holds. During this … Read more

“The coronavirus crisis is an ecological crisis”

Every day, find the Green thread, the environment meeting of Release. Serge Morand is a health ecologist, research director at CNRS and CIRAD and teaches at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine in Bangkok, Thailand. For him, it is urgent to preserve genetic diversity in nature and agriculture to avoid the multiplication of pandemics. Several species … Read more

Direct – Coronavirus: Edouard Philippe announces the closure of non-essential premises receiving the public

A man was arrested and placed in police custody Tuesday in the Oise for having put online sale of outdated protection materials (masks, gels) against the coronavirus, AFP learned from the gendarmerie. The operation led by the gendarmes of the Oise, where the largest number of cases of coronavirus contamination is recorded in France, allowed … Read more