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On Tuesday 29 September 2026, one of the European Parliament’s buildings have been officially renamed to honour former European Parliament president David Sassoli. David Maria Sassoli was an Italian journalist and politician, elected President of the European Parliament on 3 July 2019, and succeeding Antonio Tajani. Sassoli served in this role until his death at the age of 65 on 11 January 2022. In one of his speeches, he said: “The European Union is not an accident of history (…). We are not an accident of history, but the children and grandchildren of those who managed to find the antidote to that nationalist degeneration that poisoned our history”. For more information: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4TthVulJb/?stkn=ODdtdW02NzVhbzM4 This photo is free to use under Creative Commons license CC-BY-4.0 and must be credited: "CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2026– Source: EP". (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) No model release form if applicable. For bigger HR files please contact: webcom-flickr(AT)europarl.europa.eu

On Tuesday 29 September 2026, one of the European Parliament’s buildings have been officially renamed to honour former European Parliament president David Sassoli. David Maria Sassoli was an Italian journalist and politician, elected President of the European Parliament on 3 July 2019, and succeeding Antonio Tajani. Sassoli served in this role until his death at the age of 65 on 11 January 2022. In one of his speeches, he said: “The European Union is not an accident of history (…). We are not an accident of history, but the children and grandchildren of those who managed to find the antidote to that nationalist degeneration that poisoned our history”. For more information: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4TthVulJb/?stkn=ODdtdW02NzVhbzM4 This photo is free to use under Creative Commons license CC-BY-4.0 and must be credited: "CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2026– Source: EP". (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) No model release form if applicable. For bigger HR files please contact: webcom-flickr(AT)europarl.europa.eu

On Tuesday 29 September 2026, one of the European Parliament’s buildings have been officially renamed to honour former European Parliament president David Sassoli. David Maria Sassoli was an Italian journalist and politician, elected President of the European Parliament on 3 July 2019, and succeeding Antonio Tajani. Sassoli served in this role until his death at the age of 65 on 11 January 2022. In one of his speeches, he said: “The European Union is not an accident of history (…). We are not an accident of history, but the children and grandchildren of those who managed to find the antidote to that nationalist degeneration that poisoned our history”. For more information: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4TthVulJb/?stkn=ODdtdW02NzVhbzM4 This photo is free to use under Creative Commons license CC-BY-4.0 and must be credited: "CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2026– Source: EP". (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) No model release form if applicable. For bigger HR files please contact: webcom-flickr(AT)europarl.europa.eu

On Tuesday 29 September 2026, one of the European Parliament’s buildings have been officially renamed to honour former European Parliament president David Sassoli. David Maria Sassoli was an Italian journalist and politician, elected President of the European Parliament on 3 July 2019, and succeeding Antonio Tajani. Sassoli served in this role until his death at the age of 65 on 11 January 2022. In one of his speeches, he said: “The European Union is not an accident of history (…). We are not an accident of history, but the children and grandchildren of those who managed to find the antidote to that nationalist degeneration that poisoned our history”. For more information: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4TthVulJb/?stkn=ODdtdW02NzVhbzM4 This photo is free to use under Creative Commons license CC-BY-4.0 and must be credited: "CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2026– Source: EP". (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) No model release form if applicable. For bigger HR files please contact: webcom-flickr(AT)europarl.europa.eu

On Tuesday 29 September 2026, one of the European Parliament’s buildings have been officially renamed to honour former European Parliament president David Sassoli. David Maria Sassoli was an Italian journalist and politician, elected President of the European Parliament on 3 July 2019, and succeeding Antonio Tajani. Sassoli served in this role until his death at the age of 65 on 11 January 2022. In one of his speeches, he said: “The European Union is not an accident of history (…). We are not an accident of history, but the children and grandchildren of those who managed to find the antidote to that nationalist degeneration that poisoned our history”. For more information: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4TthVulJb/?stkn=ODdtdW02NzVhbzM4 This photo is free to use under Creative Commons license CC-BY-4.0 and must be credited: "CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2026– Source: EP". (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) No model release form if applicable. For bigger HR files please contact: webcom-flickr(AT)europarl.europa.eu

Romania’s months-long government crisis entered a new phase on 30 September 2026 when Parliament rejected Siegfried Mureșan’s proposed cabinet. The vote produced 182 “yes” ballots and 15 “no” votes, well short of the 233 needed for investiture. Only 197 of 464 lawmakers actually voted. The outcome was widely anticipated. Mureşan’s formula rested on PNL, USR and UDMR, which together hold roughly 169–170 seats. Even adding the 17 minority deputies would have left the bloc around 186 votes — still dozens short. PSD and AUR had already announced they would not support he cabinet; George Simion’s AUR lawmakers stayed away entirely while PSD members attended but declined to vote. This was the second failed investiture after Adrian Veștea’s cabinet received only 189 votes in June. The political deadlock began when Ilie Bolojan’s government fell in May. President Nicușor Dan has now seen two formal attempts collapse, meeting the constitutional conditions that allow him to dissolve Parliament. He has repeatedly said he does not want snap elections, arguing they would prolong instability. Dan now faces a choice: nominate a fourth prime-minister candidate or begin the dissolution process. PSD has signalled it is ready to try forming an alternative majority. AUR, for its part, has pushed for early elections and described them as preferable to continued deadlock. Polls help explain why the prospect of new elections matters. Recent surveys place AUR first, with figures ranging from 34 percent (CURS) to nearly 40 percent (INSCOP). PSD follows at 19–25 percent, PNL at 16–18 percent and USR in single digits. Simulations based on those numbers suggest AUR could emerge as the largest parliamentary group, potentially with well over 100 seats. That would not automatically give the party a governing majority, but it would place AUR in a far stronger position to lead or shape any new coalition than it holds today. Mureșan’s team presented the vote as a choice between ending the crisis or extending it. After the result he said the parties that started the deadlock had voted to prolong it and that the next move belongs to the president. Whether Dan nominates another candidate or opens the path to elections, Romania remains without a fully empowered government more than four months after the last one fell. The arithmetic that doomed the Mureșan cabinet has not changed; the political incentives of the largest parties have. Mureșan, who as an MEP steers the important EU budget file in the European Parliament, is now likely to return to his Brussels routine. Caption: Romanian Prime Minister-designate Siegfried Muresan (C-L) is chased by reporters after his proposed cabinet was rejected by the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania, 30 September 2026. The government proposed by Muresan failed to win the vote of confidence during a joint plenary session of the two chambers of Parliament, securing 182 votes out of 233 needed for approval. EPA/ROBERT GHEMENT

Le gouvernement espagnol veut renforcer la protection contre les expulsions et interdire jusqu’en 2028  les achats immobiliers par les fonds dits « vautours ». Mobilisés depuis qu’une Madrilène de 87 ans a dû quitter l’appartement dont elle ne pouvait plus payer le loyer, des manifestants jugent ces mesures insuffisantes.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev has called on Europe to put diplomacy at the centre of efforts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, warning that continued escalation could increase the risk of a nuclear confrontation. Speaking at the Euronews Defence and Space Summit in Brussels on Wednesday, Radev said European countries should not rely primarily on military support for Kyiv and should instead reopen channels of communication with Moscow. “We always need to think about the worst-case scenario,” Radev said, arguing that Europe needed to assess the risks of confronting a nuclear power. “There is a limit to just delivering weapons and supporting, because the final peace set-up will be done by diplomacy, not by delivering weapons,” he said. “We have not exhausted the power of diplomacy, and we need to do and to speak more.” Radev said Europe should consider the possibility that a conflict involving Russia could escalate beyond conventional warfare. He referred to recent comments by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that a war between Russia and Europe would be “completely different” and “very short”, while rejecting what he called such rhetoric from Moscow. But the Bulgarian prime minister argued that European governments nevertheless needed to take the nuclear dimension into account. “We cannot close our eyes to the fact that there are nuclear weapons on our continent,” he said, adding that Russia could be more inclined to use its nuclear capabilities if it felt weakened or cornered. Radev also criticised what he described as Europe’s attempt to achieve a “conventional victory” against Russia, saying that the war had exposed weaknesses in Western strategic thinking. “The war in Ukraine challenged our critical thinking and realistic approach,” he said. It had also, he argued, raised questions about how Europe defined its political objectives and translated them into military strategy. A long-standing position Radev’s call for greater engagement with Moscow is consistent with positions he has taken since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. He is often described as Russia-friendly or pro-Russian, and as president he repeatedly argued that more weapons to Ukraine would not bring an end to the war and called instead for diplomatic efforts. Radev stepped down at the end of his second presidential term to enter party politics and won the April parliamentary election with his Progressive Bulgaria movement. His government took office in May. Bulgaria initially declined to provide weapons directly to Ukraine in 2022, although it agreed to repair Ukrainian military equipment. Parliament later approved the country’s first military assistance package to Kyiv in December that year, despite opposition from Radev, who was then president. Bulgaria subsequently supplied Ukraine with anti-tank missiles, armoured vehicles, mortars, anti-aircraft guns, howitzers and infantry weapons in 2024 and 2025. In 2022 and 2023, Bulgarian arms and ammunition were instead exported mainly to European intermediaries, with Bulgarian officials saying they could not control what buyers did with the shipments. That policy changed in June, when Bulgaria stopped providing military aid from its army stocks. Radev said the country had exhausted what it could supply without compromising its own defence capabilities. The decision did not affect Bulgaria’s defence industry, which continues to produce and commercially export ammunition, including supplies destined for Ukraine. Bulgaria’s “end” to Ukraine aid: rhetoric vs. reality in Sofia’s balancing act In July, Bulgaria also stayed away from a Paris meeting of the “Coalition of the Willing”. Radev said that “Bulgaria’s place is not in the coalition of the willing” and called instead for stronger diplomatic efforts to end the war. Asked by Euronews anchor Maria Tadeo whether his position amounted to supporting Russia, Radev rejected the characterisation, saying: “I don’t care about supporting Russia, I care about finally finding the road to peace.” At the same time, he has stressed that Bulgaria remains committed to its European direction, while arguing that Europe needs more “critical thinking” and pragmatism in dealing with the war. "I don't care about supporting Russia, I care about finally finding the road to peace," Bulgarian PM Rumen Radev says. #EuronewsDefenceSpace2026 pic.twitter.com/988n17kYqV — euronews (@euronews) September 30, 2026 Defence pressure across Europe Radev’s comments on Wednesday came as European governments seek to increase defence spending and strengthen cooperation on military procurement and production, amid growing concern over Russian attacks and hybrid threats. Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken told the summit that Europe faced what he called a “dark winter” as hybrid threats multiplied. He urged European governments to accelerate efforts to expand air-defence capabilities, particularly against increasingly fast drones. U.S. Ambassador to the EU Andrew Puzder, meanwhile, criticised proposals to give preference to European-made defence equipment in the bloc’s rearmament efforts. He argued that NATO allies should prioritise capability and availability rather than the geographic origin of equipment, and advocated a broader “Made in NATO” approach. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius and European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen are also among the senior officials taking part in the Brussels summit. April forecast: exit Orbán, enters Radev, its Bulgarian edition Sources: Euronews, Reuters, AP Caption: Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev/Euronews

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Source :Compte X, le 9 septembre 2026 Etiqe :Douteux Contenu : C’est un sujet sensible en Ukraine. Les femmes du pays seront-elles prochainement conscrites dans la guerre contre la Russie ? La rumeur se fait insistante sur les réseaux sociaux depuis quelques semaines. Plusieurs internautes déduisent cette information d’une soi-disant commande par le ministère de la Défense de 150 000 vestes militaires adaptées à la physionomie féminine. « C’est un indicateur clair d’un [ordre de] mobilisation » , écrit le 9 septembre sur X le compte Military Summary,  déjà épinglé chez nos confrères de TF1 pour avoir relayé de la désinformation relative au conflit ukrainien. L’internaute aux 47 000 abonnés joint à son message deux images : l’une est une capture d’écran de Prozorro, la plateforme ukrainienne de passation des marchés publics, l’autre est le scan d’un document notifiant l’appel à marché public, supposément, donc, pour 150 000 vestes d’hiver pour femme. Absente des registres officiels disponibles en ligne, cette commande a été ouvertement démentie par Kiev. Qui plus est, elle ne suffirait pas, à elle seule, à attester d’un projet de conscription forcée des femmes ukrainiennes. Un appel d’offres introuvable De fait, le ministère de la Défense ukrainien n’a jamais caché sa production de matériel militaire conçu pour les femmes – dont l’engagement dans l’armée s’effectue uniquement sur la base du volontariat . En avril 2025 , Kiev annonçait le développement de «  vestes et pantalons d’hiver coupe-vent pour militaires [de sexe] féminin » classifiés comme « type 3 ». Les spécificités de ces équipements étaient ensuite précisées, deux mois plus tard, dans un document officiel de 36 pages . Les captures d’écran publiées sur X par Military Summary évoquent, elles aussi, des équipements de « type 3 ». Il s’agirait donc bien de vêtements uniquement à destination des soldates ukrainiennes. Pour autant, il n’existe aucune trace dans les registres officiels du soi-disant appel d’offres relayé par l’internaute. Que ce soit directement sur le site Prozorro , développé par la branche ukrainienne de l’ONG anticorruption Transparency International, ou sur son module d’analyse, bi.prozorro.org , qui recense et ordonne chronologiquement les données de la plateforme, la commande dont Military Summary affirme avancer la preuve est introuvable. Du matériel militaire pensé spécifiquement pour les femmes, comme des gilets pare-balles, des vestes et des pantalons d’hiver, a bien été acheté par le gouvernement ukrainien au printemps 2026, selon la Ukrainska Pravda . Mais aucune source fiable ne fait état de commandes avoisinant les 150 000 exemplaires. Qui plus est, un tel achat ne permettrait en rien d’attester d’une conscription forcée à venir des femmes ukrainiennes. Le gouvernement ukrainien a par ailleurs formellement démenti ces propos le 10 septembre, indiquant qu’il n’existait « aucune information concernant une telle acquisition par le ministère de la Défense » . «  Il n’y a pas non plus d’initiatives législatives, de projets de loi ou de discussions internes en Ukraine concernant la mobilisation des femmes » , a ajouté Kiev. Des exceptions bien spécifiques à cette règle semblent toutefois alimenter le doute sur les réseaux sociaux. Pas d’ordre de mobilisation En effet, depuis plusieurs jours, des internautes francophones reprennent les dires de Military Summary en les illustrant de photos de documents qui seraient des convocations dans des centres de recrutement militaires reçues par des Ukrainiennes. Un élément supplémentaire, selon les publications, de la mise en place de la conscription forcée des femmes. Néanmoins, rien n’indique que ces documents soient des ordres de mobilisation. Les convocations ainsi partagées sur les réseaux sociaux – dont l’authenticité n’a pas pu être établie et dont la forme change en fonction des publications – présentent le même motif : vérification ou actualisation des données personnelles. En Ukraine, la loi martiale en vigueur depuis le début de l’invasion à grande échelle du pays par la Russie le 24 février 2022, impose la mobilisation générale des hommes âgés de 25 à 60 ans. Les femmes en sont exclues. La loi prévoit toutefois que «  les femmes ayant obtenu une spécialité médicale ou pharmaceutique doivent s’inscrire au service militaire » , précise SUD.UA , un média ukrainien consacré au traitement de l’actualité juridique. Une information déjà rapportée ces dernières années par différentes sources, comme le Kiev Independent et le cabinet d’avocats CMS . «  L’inscription en soi ne constitue pas un motif de mobilisation forcée » , ajoute le site spécialisé. Autrement dit, l’enregistrement des soignantes auprès des instances militaires ne conditionne en aucun cas leur conscription. Concernant le reste de la population, l’Ukraine n’a annoncé aucune mesure en faveur d’un quelconque enrôlement obligatoire des femmes. Faute d’informations sur le contexte de ces convocations, leur motif reste, pour l’heure, difficile à déterminer… Contacté pour obtenir plus de précisions, le ministère de la Défense ukrainien n’avait pas répondu à nos sollicitations au moment de la publication.   Auteurs : Auteur : Jean-Baptiste Breen, journaliste Relecteur : Nicolas Turcev, journaliste Liens d’intérêts ou fonctions politiques déclarés des intervenants à l’article : aucun Secrétariat de rédaction : Nicolas Turcev, journaliste L’article Attention à ces prétendues preuves de la mobilisation forcée de femmes en Ukraine est apparu en premier sur Les Surligneurs .

Bosnia goes to the polls on October 4 to elect several parliaments and presidents. While voters worry about the economy and emigration, the campaign is focused on ethnicity, exposing the country's political paralysis.

A rebours des échecs au Moyen-Orient, où les discussions sont conduites par des non-diplomates proches du président américain, l’accord signé le 22 septembre entre le Danemark, le Groenland et les Etats-Unis s’est fait dans le respect des règles, au bénéfice de ses signataires, constate dans sa chronique Gilles Paris, éditorialiste au « Monde ».

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Video. Hurricane Polo has caused flooding and damage in parts of Mexico, with aerial footage showing inundated streets and ground images showing damaged roofs, fallen branches and residents clearing debris.

Vidéo. L'ouragan Polo provoque des inondations et des dégâts dans plusieurs régions du Mexique : des images aériennes montrent des rues submergées, des images au sol des toits endommagés, des branches tombées et des habitants qui déblayent les débris.

Source :Compte Facebook, le 22 septembre 2026 Etiqe :Faux Contenu : En une trentaine de secondes, sept grands avions militaires fendent le ciel à très basse altitude. Une vidéo immortalise la scène depuis un véhicule coincé dans des bouchons. « Les avions de l’Otan quittent l’Allemagne en masse… Ça sent pas bon » , s’alarme un internaute . « Que se prépare-t-il en Europe ? » , demande un compte hispanophone . Sur Facebook ( ici , ici , ici ou ici ), Instagram et YouTube , une interrogation revient : ces manœuvres aériennes seraient-elles le signe d’une préparation militaire de l’Otan ? Ces images apparaissent alors que les actes d’intimidation de la part de la Russie se multiplient. Début août, des drones chargés d’explosifs, d’origine russe selon les autorités, avaient par exemple été retrouvés à l’aéroport de Leipzig, en Allemagne. Les services secrets états-uniens alertent, depuis, sur une possible offensive de Moscou en Europe. « Il existe un risque faible mais croissant que la Russie mène des attaques militaires limitées contre un pays de l’Otan voisin de la Russie , a estimé Thomas Ahrenkiel, chef des services de renseignement danois , en conférence de presse, le 24 septembre 2026. Nous continuons de considérer comme improbable que la Russie voie un intérêt à envahir un pays de l’Otan, mais nous ne pouvons pas l’exclure. » De leur côté, en mai, les services de renseignements russes accusaient l’Otan de préparer « un conflit à grande échelle dans l’Est » . Si la vidéo des avions militaires émerge dans ce contexte , elle ne témoigne cependant pas d’un déploiement de l’Otan en Allemagne mais d’un rendez-vous prévu de longue date aux Pays-Bas, comme l’ont montré les Vérificateurs de TF1 . Une vidéo filmée le 19 septembre aux Pays-Bas Nos confrères ont retrouvé la première publication de cette vidéo sur TikTok , mise en ligne le 19 septembre 2026 par une internaute néerlandaise. Grâce aux fonctionnalités du réseau social, elle a renseigné la localisation « A12 », une autoroute des Pays-Bas qui relie la Haye à la frontière allemande. Sur ces images, aucun véhicule ne circule sur la voie en sens inverse, tandis que le trafic est ralenti sur la route où se situe l’auteure de la vidéo. La circulation sur l’A12 est en effet perturbée ce jour-là par un blocage d’Extinction Rebellion, annoncé sur le site internet du collectif écologiste, afin de protester contre les subventions aux énergies fossiles. La Néerlandaise qui a capturé le vol des avions militaires a aussi publié une vidéo de la manifestation, dans laquelle on distingue plusieurs drapeaux d’Extinction Rebellion. L’action a été menée sur l’autoroute à hauteur de la ville de Zevenaar, près de l’Allemagne, et l’arrestation des activistes a été relatée par les médias NOS et AD . Ces informations permettent de confirmer la localisation et la date de l’enregistrement de la vidéo qui nous intéresse. Il est également possible de repérer plusieurs plaques d’immatriculation jaunes, standard aux Pays-Bas, et une plaque allemande (D pour Deutschland ) avec l’identifiant territorial KLE qui se rapporte à l’arrondissement de Clèves, situé le long de la frontière néerlandaise. Un exercice militaire international annuel En légende de sa vidéo – qui comptabilise plus de 640 000 vues dix jours après – , l’internaute néerlandaise précise en anglais : « C’est un vol d’entraînement, pas de panique, c’est juste une démonstration, pas une guerre, ça se passe aux Pays-Bas. » Dans les commentaires, elle ajoute en néerlandais : « Attention ! Il ne s’agit pas d’une guerre. C’est un exercice de l’armée de l’air aux Pays-Bas. »  Et, dans la description de son profil , elle en remet une couche en anglais : « La vidéo de l’avion n’est pas un signe de guerre, c’est une journée d’entraînement Falcon Leap aux Pays-Bas. » Puis en néerlandais : « Ce n’est pas une guerre ! Ce sont des manœuvres militaires ! » Du 7 au 18 septembre s’est en effet déroulé aux Pays-Bas le Falcon Leap, un événement annuel international organisé depuis 2015 . S’il n’est pas géré par l’Otan , plusieurs pays de l’alliance politico-militaire y participent, comme la France, l’Allemagne et les États-Unis. Il s’agit d’un exercice militaire « consacré aux opérations aéroportées »  réunissant onze nations, communique le ministère des Armées français . Leur but est de s’entraîner et de se familiariser avec le matériel et les procédures de chaque pays, dont leurs avions et parachutes. Cet exercice a lieu « dans le cadre de la commémoration de l’opération Market Garden » conduite par les Alliés en septembre 1944 . Chaque année, un hommage est rendu aux milliers de parachutistes alliés qui ont trouvé la mort dans la lande néerlandaise de Ginkelse Heide, à quelques kilomètres de Zevenaar. En 2026, le Falcon Leap s’est ainsi clôturé le 19 septembre par cette commémoration . Un survol à 13h16, à faible altitude Preuve que ces vols n’illustrent pas une escalade précipitée du conflit avec la Russie, une décision prise par le ministre de la Défense et parue au Journal officiel des Pays-Bas autorisait dès le 2 juillet dernier les vols et sauts en parachute dans le secteur de Ginkelse Heide le 19 septembre. Une autre décision, prise le même jour, définissait une zone temporaire d’exercice de vol à basse altitude pour la période du 7 au 19 septembre. TF1 a pu échanger avec un passionné d’aviation militaire qui a écrit un article dans son blog sur cette édition . Berend Jan Floor identifie sur la vidéo TikTok « quatre avions de transport Lockheed C-130 Hercules, avec d’autres avions derrière eux » . Nos confrères ont retrouvé, sur le site FlightRadar , le plan de vol des Lockheed C-130, qui font bien partie des avions recensés par le ministère de la Défense néerlandais ayant participé au Falcon Leap. D’après leur trace GPS, ils ont décollé de la base aérienne d’Eindhoven puis ont survolé l’A12 près de Zevenaar, « précisément à 13h16, le 19 septembre, exactement l’heure à laquelle la vidéo a été prise par l’internaute néerlandaise » , soulignent Les Vérificateurs.   Auteurs : Autrice : Mathilde Lafargue, journaliste Relecteur : Nicolas Turcev, journaliste Liens d’intérêts ou fonctions politiques déclarés des intervenants à l’article : aucun Secrétariat de rédaction : Maylis Ygrand, journaliste L’article Non, cette vidéo ne montre pas des avions de l’Otan en Allemagne prêts à en découdre avec la Russie est apparu en premier sur Les Surligneurs .

More than 400 people, the majority of them minors, were detained across France on Tuesday after high school students blockaded hundreds of schools in a rapidly expanding protest movement, prompting clashes that injured dozens of police officers and drew sharp political recriminations just months before a presidential election. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez reported that 440 individuals had been taken into custody nationwide, with roughly two-thirds placed in formal police custody, while the education ministry confirmed disruptions or protests at approximately 400 of the country’s 3,700 high schools. In several cities, masked youths set fire to rubbish bins, hurled bottles, paving stones and other projectiles at officers, and in seven documented cases threw hydrochloric acid, leading to 48 police injuries. Nunez characterized the incidents as “urban violence” rather than legitimate protest, insisting that nothing justified arriving at schools masked, armed with fireworks and projectiles, and seeking confrontation with security forces. The unrest began modestly on September 21 at the Saint-Exupéry high school in the southeastern Paris suburb of Créteil, where several teaching posts remained unfilled. It quickly spread through the Île-de-France region. By the end of the previous week roughly 60 schools in the Paris area had seen disruption attempts, with about a dozen of the region’s 468 public high schools experiencing successful blockades. On Monday the movement intensified and moved beyond the capital, affecting 180 establishments according to the Interior Ministry. The Union Syndicale Lycéenne (USL), a national high-school students’ union, then called for blockades “in all high schools” on Tuesday to coincide with a broader public-sector strike. USL president Ryad Rani told Agence Francant-Presse that the decision to expand the action reflected the nationwide character of the problems. In its statement the union cited a chronic shortage of teachers and staff, dilapidated buildings, overloaded timetables, overcrowded classrooms and the stress generated by Parcoursup, the national university admissions platform. Student demands meet rising confrontations across the country The grievances voiced by participants are concrete and long-standing. At the Lamartine lycée in northern Paris, students held placards reading “8am-6pm. More hours of lessons than sleep” and asked whether they were pupils or prisoners. A 17-year-old student there, who declined to give her name, told reporters that overheated classrooms, congested schedules and insufficient resources had driven the action, adding that the pupils also wished to support teachers burdened by excessive workloads relative to their pay. Similar complaints echoed in other cities. In Seine-Saint-Denis, mayor Bally Bagayoko from La France Insoumise (LFI) joined hundreds of students outside the Lycée Paul-Éluard, described their demands as “completely legitimate,” and led a rendition of the national anthem while arguing that low-income areas systematically receive fewer resources than wealthier districts. When a crowd formed, officers carrying riot shields used batons to disperse the demonstrators. Scenes of disorder multiplied on Tuesday. In Lille, masked students outside the Lycée César Baggio set bins alight, vandalized bus shelters and advertising hoardings, and threw objects at police, who answered with tear gas. In Nantes, teens piled dozens of bins to seal the entrance to the Lycée Gabriel Guist’hau. Confrontations also erupted in Bordeaux, Rennes, Marseille and several schools in the Rhône department around Lyon. Video circulated on French media showed flares and fireworks being ignited, including inside at least one school building. Education Minister Édouard Geffray portrayed the core movement as a “classic high-school student protest” that had been hijacked by violent elements. Political accusations intensify ahead of election season The violence immediately became a political flashpoint. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron, labeled any escalation “irresponsible,” warning that fireworks, fires and violence near schools endanger students, staff and officers. He directed particular criticism at La France Insoumise (LFI), the hard-left party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Education Minister Geffray accused LFI elected officials of “political hijacking” of the blockades. Mélenchon responded by calling the students “harmless” and denouncing what he termed an “irresponsible” government crackdown with “clear racist undertones.” He urged LFI activists and elected officials to intervene in support of the youths, posting “Hands off our youth.” Lecornu replied that the accusation of racism was an insult and that exploiting student anger for partisan ends was wrong; the duty of elected officials, he argued, was to protect young people and call for calm. The timing amplifies the stakes. Macron is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term, and the presidential election is only seven months away. Mélenchon, who finished third in 2022, retains strong support among younger left-leaning voters. Lecornu’s government is still struggling to assemble a majority for the 2027 state budget amid rising energy costs and resistance to spending cuts. Public-sector unions, including teachers and firefighters, staged strikes and rallies on the same Tuesday, with CGT leader Sophie Binet warning that the draft budget risked driving the country “straight into the wall of recession.” Primary-school teachers’ unions estimated that up to 40 percent of their members would stay away from work. Behind the immediate confrontations lie structural problems in French secondary education that successive governments have struggled to resolve: persistent teacher shortages, aging infrastructure, heavy weekly hours for students, and the competitive pressures of the Parcoursup admissions system. The rapid geographic spread of the blockades, the scale of detentions, and the willingness of both government ministers and opposition leaders to frame the events in stark moral and political terms suggest that the protests have become more than a localized student grievance. They now form part of a wider contest over public resources, social cohesion and electoral positioning in a country struggling with record foreign debt and budget deficit. Sources: Le Monde, Le Figaro, Les Échos Bardella’s teenage messages, and a campaign already at war Caption: A firefighter holds a flare as he participates in a nationwide strike in Paris, France, 29 September 2026. Healthcare workers, students, firefighters, and other public sector workers take part in a protest as eight major unions call for higher pay and oppose a proposed freeze in public sector salaries ahead of debates on France’s 2027 budget. EPA/MOHAMMED BADRA

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La principale cible a été le secteur énergétique de Kiev et de sa région. Des immeubles d’habitation ont également été endommagés et des travaux sont en cours pour rétablir « l’électricité et l’approvisionnement en eau partout où ils font défaut », a déclaré le président Volodymyr Zelensky.

A Flydubai Boeing 737 MAX flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv transmitted the international hijacking alert on Wednesday morning, sending Israeli fighter jets into the air and forcing an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. Within hours the scare collapsed into a different story: a violent fight between the two pilots in the cockpit. Later Israeli television added that one was Russian and the other Ukrainian. The aircraft, flight FZ1073, left Dubai International around 7:05 a.m. local time with about 174 passengers, including 27 children and a large number of Israelis. It was due at Ben Gurion Airport near 9:30 a.m. Roughly 90 minutes in, as it entered Jordanian airspace, the transponder first showed squawk 7700 (general emergency) and then briefly 7500 — the code used worldwide to signal unlawful interference or a possible hijacking. Flight-tracking data showed a sharp descent — CNN reported a drop of about 17,400 feet in two minutes — a U-turn, and a low-level track back into Saudi airspace. Contact with the crew was lost for a period and the plane vanished from public trackers. Israel treated the event as a potential security incident. The IDF scrambled jets, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz held an urgent consultation, and Ben Gurion departures were briefly paused. The plane landed safely at Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Airport in Tabuk. Passengers were unharmed. Flydubai said it would send another aircraft from Dubai to collect them and continue to Israel. Both pilots were taken off the flight. How the explanation changed The first public picture was the hijack code itself. Officials said they could not reach the pilots and that the situation was unclear. Early descriptions spoke of “violence on board” or an “internal personnel incident,” language that left room for a cabin disturbance among passengers. Social-media posts and some passenger accounts filled that gap: screams, blood near the cockpit, claims that one pilot had tried to stab the other. Those details have not been independently confirmed by the airline or investigators. Israeli outlets then narrowed the story. Ynet, citing Flydubai, reported that the distress signal was triggered by a fight between the pilots, not a hijacking or an attack on the cabin. The airline confirmed a violent altercation in the cockpit. Security sources told Israeli media the event was not terrorism-related. Channel 12 added that one of the pilots lost consciousness during the struggle. Channel 14 circulated a more dramatic, still-unconfirmed version: that one pilot may have put the aircraft into a steep dive and the other fought him for control. Flydubai and Saudi authorities have not endorsed that account. The last detail: nationalities Israel’s Channel 12 then reported that the crew consisted of two pilots — one from Russia and one from Ukraine. The claim was repeated by NEXTA, BILD, and Ukrainian and Russian-language outlets. The airline has confirmed the fight but has not, in public statements so far, named the pilots or formally verified their nationalities. Both men were removed from the aircraft after landing in Tabuk. According to journalist Amit Segal, authorities are examining the possibility that one of the pilots deliberately tried to crash the plane in order to take his own life. The claim is unconfirmed. Picture of one of the passengers of FlyDubai flight covered in blood after fighting with one of the pilots armed with a knife-Yediot News pic.twitter.com/9bBvTkDlDj — WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@WarMonitor3) September 30, 2026 Gulf carriers routinely hire pilots of many nationalities. The pairing of a Russian captain and a Ukrainian first officer, against the background of the war that began in 2022, immediately became the most shared fact of the afternoon — even though investigators have not said whether nationality had anything to do with the argument. But this could be anyone’s guess. The question is: was it wise to pair a Russian and a Ukrainian in the cockpit? Caption: Corporate image by @Flydubai

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On 29 September 2026 Slovakia’s National Council voted to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister and Environment Minister Tomáš Taraba. The motion passed 77–0, with 73 members absent. The decisive votes came from the Slovak National Party (SNS), a junior partner in Prime Minister Robert Fico’s coalition, which sided with the opposition. Fico immediately called a meeting of Smer-SD’s leadership for 30 September to decide the government’s next steps and again raised the possibility of a January snap election. The vote turned a months-long internal feud into an open parliamentary rupture. The three-party government of Smer-SD, Hlas-SD (Voice) and SNS had been governing with a razor-thin majority of 78 seats in the 150-seat chamber, dependent on a handful of loyal independents. Taraba’s dismissal and expected return to parliament as an independent, together with two or three allied MPs, would leave the coalition with at most 75 reliable votes. The coalition itself was assembled after the 30 September 2023 election. Smer-SD won 42 seats, Hlas-SD 27 and SNS 10, giving the three parties an initial 79-seat majority. Fico returned as prime minister for a fourth time at the head of a leftist-nationalist government that has kept close energy ties with Russia and frequently clashed with EU partners. The majority later narrowed after several Hlas-SD MPs left the party caucus and became independents; Fico retained their support by offering one of them a ministerial post. That earlier personnel episode already showed how fragile the arithmetic had become. The present crisis centres on control of the Environment Ministry. SNS chairman Andrej Danko had demanded Taraba’s replacement for months, accusing him of shutting the party out of ministry decisions and tenders. In May the three men agreed that Taraba would resign by 30 September if he failed to reconcile with SNS. Fico, who valued Taraba’s work on industrial and energy files, first submitted a dismissal request to President Peter Pellegrini and then withdrew it on 28 September, arguing that the move itself endangered the parliamentary majority. Danko responded by promising to vote with the opposition until Taraba was removed—an occurrence last seen in modern Slovak politics in 1993. Taraba, originally elected on the SNS list in 2023 after earlier stints with other nationalist groupings, refused to resign and signalled he would vote independently once back in parliament. Several paths are now open. One is that Fico tries to reconstruct a working majority with the remaining coalition partners and whatever independents he can still attract. Another is that he resigns and, with Pellegrini’s agreement, installs a caretaker or technocratic cabinet to run the country until the regular election due in September 2027. A third is an early election in January 2027. That would require a constitutional law shortening the parliamentary term and therefore a three-fifths majority of all 150 deputies (90 votes). Smer-SD has said it would join opposition parties to reach that threshold if necessary; Hlas-SD and SNS have so far refused. Polls suggest neither junior partner would fare well in an early vote—SNS is widely expected to fall below the 5 percent threshold—while Smer-SD remains competitive but would likely need new partners such as the far-right Republika to govern again. The calendar adds pressure. The government must submit the 2027 budget by 15 October and have it approved by the end of December. Failure would force Slovakia onto a provisional budget that limits monthly spending to one-twelfth of 2026 outlays, undercutting promised energy-price freezes and growth measures. Whatever course Fico chooses after today’s party meeting, the 29 September vote has already made the government’s ability to legislate and to finish its term far more uncertain than it was a week ago. This article draws on reporting by Spectator.sme Caption: Tomáš Taraba, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Environment of Slovakia, 4 November 2025 [Council Newsroom]

Les nouvelles ressources propres sont censées résoudre l’équation du cadre financier pluriannuel 2028-2034. Mais quasiment aucune des propositions sur la table ne peut se prévaloir de l’unanimité requise. En attendant la prochaine proposition de compromis qui sera soumise aux Vingt-Sept en octobre, Contexte passe en revue toutes les recettes en discussion.

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