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Published on: 02/12/2026 - 07:44 Modified on: 02/12/2026 - 12:17

On the front page of the press this Thursday, February 12, the publication of the book-testimony of Gisèle Pélicot, who has become a figure in the fight against violence against women since her refusal to hold the Mazan rape trial in camera. The presentation today by the government of the new energy programming law. A subject that is debated in France, in Europe, but more in the United States. And a coach with multiple hats (or rather jackets).

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On the front page of the French press this morning, the face of Gisèle Pélicot, who has become a figure in the fight against violence against women since her refusal to go behind closed doors at the Mazan rape trial.

On the occasion of the worldwide release of her book, "And the joy of living", the woman who was the victim of chemical rapes committed by her husband and around fifty of his accomplices, for years, comes out of silence for the first time to tell "her life before" and "her life after". Libération evokes a word "expected, scrutinized, almost ordered to produce collective meaning", but Gisèle Pelicot "refuses to be a model and even less an 'icon'". “I reattributed my life to myself,” she says, also refusing that “the status of victim becomes her definitive identity.” “I no longer want this victim status,” Gisèle Pélicot insists again in Le Figaro, where she says she wants to testify to the way in which she “overcame these ordeals” to “give hope to women who, like (her), may, one day, feel helpless”. Le Nouvel Obs cites the formula of the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, "we are not born a woman, we become one", and salutes "this woman who is both ordinary and extraordinary whose personal trajectory has had a lasting impact on our collective experience", who has proven that "the fight for emancipation and equality will never be in vain".

Also on the front page of the French press is the presentation today by the government of the new multi-annual energy programming law for the next ten years. La Croix speaks of a subject "which divides politicians", in a context of the relaunch of nuclear power and the slower than expected progression of renewable energies. “After the budget vote, second crash test for Sébastien Lecornu’s government,” announces Le Figaro, criticizing its “at the same time” method. The newspaper above all echoes the concerns of the right and warns "against the negative impact of renewable energy on nuclear power".

Debate, too, within the European Union (EU). The European version of Politico reports the standoff between industrialists and several European leaders, including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the head of the Commission, so that she can attack the "pillar" of the Union's climate policy: the carbon emissions trading system, "which regulates nearly half of the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming within the EU".

In the United States, American President Donald Trump has decided and should return today to the "endangerment report" established in 2009 and recognizing the threat of greenhouse gases for the climate. This deregulation with massive and lasting effects, for the United States and for the planet, is perceived by The Wall Street Journal cited by Courrier International as "a step backwards of an unprecedented scope in United States climate policy". The Trump administration justifies this destruction of the framework for greenhouse gas emissions by the desire to provide cheap energy, but The Washington Post, which reports that Donald Trump orders the Pentagon to buy electricity produced by coal, doubts that this very polluting fuel is in reality truly competitive, in particular because of the cost of modernizing coal-fired power stations. The “information sheet” published on the White House website assures in any case that “Donald Trump strengthens the national security of the United States thanks to his large fleet of clean coal power plants”.

The move comes as many scientists say global warming is accelerating faster than ever. The Washington Post, which consulted data collected by NASA on average global temperatures between 1880 and 2025, says that these data show that the increase in global temperatures has accelerated by 42% over the last decade. “Continued global warming could embark on an irreversible path by triggering climatic tipping points,” also warn several scientists cited by The Guardian, the British daily.

In Italy, it was the cold combined with poor housing that killed six homeless people in recent weeks in Milan, where the Winter Olympics are taking place. The New York Times, which accompanied volunteers helping people on the streets, reported that some of the deceased homeless people were found not far from the Olympic venues, where spectators pay up to $1,650 to attend the competitions. A reality which shows, according to The NYT, "a worsening of inequalities" in Milan, where many residents can no longer afford housing, while the city attracts wealthy investors from around the world "thanks to considerable tax advantages granted to high incomes and foreign professionals". “It seems like this city and this society are becoming more and more of an all-or-nothing society,” notes one volunteer.

Still at the Winter Olympics, a coach caught the attention of the newspaper La Repubblica. They say that “the clothes make the monk”. Benoît Richaud, for his part, often has to turn around his jacket or rather change it, because this 38-year-old coach trains a total of 16 skaters representing 13 different nations. Seven of them competed in the men's short program on Tuesday evening, forcing Benoît Richaud to run between each interview to change outfits. To the point that he deemed it necessary to clarify: “It’s still me, I just changed my jacket.” The newspaper explains that if Benoît Richaud is also in demand, it is because he is among the most respected coaches and choreographers in the world: best figure skating choreographer of 2024, finalist for this prize in 2025. In other words, his job fits him... like a glove.

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