CHILDHOOD The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to lead to a global increase in child labor for the first time in twenty years, with millions more forced to work, the UN warned on Friday. According to a joint study by the United Nations Children’s Organization (Unicef) and the International Labor Organization (ILO), the number of working … Read more
No recovery for DELE ALLI Tottenham’s English international striker Dele Alli will be suspended from the Spurs resumption game against Manchester United on June 19 due to an Internet joke implying that Asians were responsible for the match. Covid-19 epidemic. In early February, before the pandemic came to interrupt the football season, Alli had published … Read more
AUSTRIA Austria will reopen on June 16 its border with Italy, closed since March to combat the spread of the new coronavirus, the government has announced, which will also lift controls with most other countries in the EU, but not Sweden and Spain. “Yes, we are opening the border. Yes, traveling to Italy, Greece, Croatia … Read more
OECD The world economy should experience a recession of at least 6% this year which will worsen inequalities, according to the OECD, which calls on governments to modernize and cooperate for the advent of a “fairer and more sustainable economy” “. In its first global economic outlook since the pandemic brought all the major economies … Read more
RATP The RATP announces, in a press release published on Monday, the list of 31 metro stations which reopen Wednesday June 9 in Paris, as well as a return to normal traffic. Said 31 stations: Line 2: Courcelles Line 3: Bourse, Malesherbes Line 4: Alésia, Saint-Placide, Raspail Line 5: Bréguet Sabin, Campo Formio, Hoche, Laumière, … Read more
EMPLOYMENT The level of online job offers has almost returned to its pre-containment level, but they concern more precarious contracts and less qualified jobs, according to Dares, the statistics service of the Ministry of Labor. “On a panel of fifteen sites monitored, the number of online job offers published from May 18 to 24 is … Read more
NO JUDO COMPETITIONS BEFORE OCTOBER? The French Judo Federation (FFJudo) plans to resume competitions only from October. “The objective is to resume competition with or without an audience in October with the Senior French Championships planned for Brest,” writes the FFJudo in a press release. In its protocol declined in six phases, from May 11 … Read more
MANIFESTO Rethinking the Ehpad model, housing, intergenerational relationships, increasing public spending: the coronavirus crisis calls for “change gear in support of old age“, believe in The world personalities, from Laurent Berger to Michel Drucker, from local elected officials to big bosses. “Professionals in the sector of assistance to the elderly, trade unionists, economic and social … Read more
This is a new milestone in breaking out of containment. This Thursday, May 28, after a defense council, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will announce the modalities in which the second phase of deconfinement will take place. They will inevitably be eagerly awaited, since this is when the government will give details, notably on the organization … Read more
SPAIN Madrid residents will find their friends on Monday, their parks and terraces and in other regions less affected by the pandemic, the Spanish will be able to swim at the beach after ten weeks of one of the strictest confinements in the world. Madrid, Barcelona and a large part of the Castile-Leon region (north … Read more