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On the front page of the press this Thursday, November 23, the victory of the far-right in the legislative elections in the Netherlands. The postponement until Friday of the agreement between Israel and Hamas on the release of hostages. A scandal in Italy, where the Minister of Agriculture is accused of having forced a train to make an unscheduled stop in order to get off. A study on the erectile functions of astronauts. And good news for French public finances.
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On the front page of the press, the arrival at the head of the far-right in the legislative elections in the Netherlands.
“The Netherlands are turning right”: De Telegraaf presents Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom, as “the big winner” of these elections. “The era of Mark Rutte, the outgoing Prime Minister, ends with a right-wing populist revolt that shakes the foundations of power”: the daily NRC speaks of “a historic electoral victory for the PVV”, but wonders what will happen afterwards, since the arrival at the head of Geert Wilders does not mean that he will be able to form a coalition to govern. From Volkskrant rather evokes the probability of a right-wing coalition, presented as “obvious”, even if its exact contours remain to be defined. The Guardian, the British daily, notes that his electoral breakthrough casts “a chill” in Europe, where his proposals are worrying, in particular that of reestablishing control at the Dutch borders or reintroducing intra-European work permits. A victory also seen with concern in Ukraine, because of Geert Wilders’ statements on the regime of Vladimir Putin, victim according to him of “hysterical Russophobia”.
Also on the front page is the postponement until Friday of the agreement between Israel and Hamas. While this agreement is generally seen as a step in the right direction, the wait seems to tense minds in Israel. Haaretz, a fiercely anti-Netanyahu left-wing daily, accuses him of wanting “an endless war” because the continuation of the war allows him to “prolong his hold on power”, by preventing the resumption of legal proceedings. Without being opposed to this agreement, the right-wing daily Yediot Aharonotworries that Israeli security officials are acting mainly out of “guilt”, after the mistakes that led to the October 7 attacks, thus allowing Hamas leader Yahia Sinwar to regroup his forces for an offensive even more deadly.
Distrust, also, of the United States towards India, suspected of being involved in an assassination plan, targeting an American-Canadian Sikh separatist. The Financial Times claims that American authorities foiled this assassination plan on their soil and that President Joe Biden raised the issue with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September. The newspaper specifies that this exchange follows the murder, last June, in Canada, of another Sikh separatist, which led Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to declare that there were “credible allegations” linking New Delhi to this assassination. The Indian Express recalls that the Indian government then rejected Canada’s allegations, calling them “absurd”, but indicates that India declares that it takes the American information “seriously”, this time.
In Italy, the Minister of Agriculture is accused of having forced a train to make an unscheduled stop in order to get off. Francesco Lollobrigida, also brother-in-law of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is vilified for his way of treating the railway network as a “personal luxury vehicle” – hence the front page ofIl Fatto Quotidianowho nicknamed him “Duke of Lollo”, with a pun on the “buffoonery” of the affair.
Without any transition, just because you are worth it, I suggest you cast an eyelash at Iceland Monitor. The newspaper says Iceland’s civil defense chief is proposing to use ultra-powerful water pumps to cool the lava that threatens the town of Grindavik, which sits at the foot of an active volcano – a surprising but not surprising process. unprecedented, since Iceland already used it in 1973.
Still in this astonishing section, The Guardian reports a study on the return of astronauts by NASA researchers, who discovered that galactic cosmic rays, and to a lesser extent microgravity can impair the function of erectile tissues, with effects that can last for decades. Land or get laid, you have to choose.
We leave with very good news… for French public finances. The world announces that the “Panama Papers”, this global journalistic investigation which revealed the existence of secret accounts of heads of state, billionaires and criminals hidden in tax havens, made it possible, in itself, to bring in nearly 200 million euros in state coffers, thanks to the tax adjustment of 219 taxpayers – and according to Le Monde, “the counter continues to tick”…
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