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🇫🇷 👨‍🎓JUST IN - France is ranked second to last in the school performance in mathematics (EU-OECD). Well below the European average.

👉🏻 Have a read at our previous post about the disinterest of investors due to always lower qualification level of the french population.

🇧🇪💊 CLANDESTINE DRUG LAB DISCOVERED AT NATO MILITARY BASE HOUSING NUCLEAR WEAPONS (BELGIUM)

👉🏻 A laboratory for the manufacture of ecstasy pills was discovered in Peer (Belgium) on a military base known to house part of the nuclear arsenal at the disposal of NATO.

🗣 «On Wednesday, June 22, 2022, the local police of the Kempen discovered a synthetic drug laboratory, located on the (NATO) military precinct in Peer» and «used for the production of MDMA», the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

💊 The laboratory, the statement added, «was dismantled by the specialized services of the federal police, in collaboration with the National Institute of Criminology (NICC) and the Civil Protection».

🏚 A "neighboring house" would be involved in the creation of this clandestine laboratory.

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🇫🇷💸 FRENCH MINISTER OF FINANCE: «WE HAVE REACHED THE ALERT THRESHOLD OF PUBLIC FINANCES»

👉🏻 France has reached its "alert threshold" on public finances, said last Monday the Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire, at a time when the executive seeks a compromise with the opposition for its bill on purchasing power.

🗣 "Everything is not possible, simply because we have reached the alert threshold on public finances", said Bruno Le Maire, adding that "the financing conditions have changed" and that today France borrows "at more than 2%" to finance public spending, whereas until recently it did so at negative or very low rates.

⏪ Last march, the same minister had explained that "we will collapse Russia's economy".

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🖼 The Raft of the Medusa — Théodore Géricault, 1818

🇫🇷🇺🇦 ABOUT THE FRENCH CAESARS SENT TO KIEV

👉🏻 A total of 14 French CAESAR self-propelled artillery systems were actually transferred to Ukraine

💥 3 units were destroyed in airstrikes on the train at Kurakhovo;

💰 2 units were sold for a ridiculous ~120,000 dollars and are in the bowels of Uralvagonzavod.

💥 1 unit were destroyed on Kubansky Island in Odessa Oblast.

📌 The most interesting thing in this whole story is the mood in France itself. Especially after the CAESARs ended up in Russia. Because it hits the image of the French Armed Forces and the mood among the local military very hard.

🪖 What are they saying in French military circles?

➡️ Sending the CAESARs to Ukraine was a complete madness: the artillery systems transferred to Kiev were partly intended for Morocco under government contracts. Some of them were also taken off combat duty.

➡️ Some units of the French Armed Forces had only one CAESAR left after being transferred to Ukraine.

➡️ If CAESARs have found themselves in the hands of the Russian Armed Forces, it is, according to the French, a disaster: the artillery systems are on combat duty. Although there are no optics as such on the Caesars, but the fire guidance and coordination system is definitely of interest for Russian forces that can now copy french technology...

➡️ A similar picture is observed not only in the artillery systems: before the transfer of MANPADS Mistral also removed from the units on combat duty on the border, in fact denuding their own borders.

➡️ In the future, it is planned to transfer the battered combat vehicles and trucks, which have exhausted their service life and are being withdrawn from Mali: it is not difficult to imagine what reputational damage the French wrecks will cause to the image of France, having ended up in Ukraine.

🔗 Source : translation from an article of @rybar

🇫🇷🗼 EIFFEL TOWER IS «BADLY DECAYED»: CONFIDENTIAL REPORTS REGARDING EXTENSIVE RUST DAMAGE BROUGHT TO LIGHT

👉🏻 Currently underway, the 20th painting campaign of the Eiffel Tower will not only be the most expensive but also probably the most inefficient in the history of the monument. Since 2010, several confidential reports, of which "Marianne" has copies, have warned of maintenance defects and extensive damage.

⚙️ In 2008, the company Expiris, headed by Bernard Giovannoni, a legal expert, saw the first defects appear "on the paint coating". A complete audit was published in February 2010 with worrying results, followed by another study 4 years later.

🔍 A July 2014 document, entitled "Synthesis on the performance of old paint backgrounds", sounds the alarm. Phenomena of flaking, cracking, blistering, and curling are spotted just about everywhere on the monument. This is not new, but the speed at which the rust has spread is surprising to the legal expert Bernard Giovannoni. He confides today: "I had been working on the tower for several years but in 2014, I felt that there was a great urgency to address the corrosion."

⏳According to 2014 estimates, only 10 percent of the tower's paint "holds". Simply put, it has been known since 2014 that the surface of the Eiffel Tower is crumbling.

🗣 "It's simple to understand", says one expert. "The last few coats have overstretched the previous ones, and the paint is cracking and peeling everywhere. It has become very brittle, if you walk on it, it breaks, and thus plays its protective role more and more poorly. But the old layers are solid and fortunately continue to protect the metal in many places." But for how long?

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🇫🇷📈🗣 In June 2022, inflation rose to 5.8%, the highest since July 1985. By European standards, it even rose to 6.5%. And, unfortunately, the inflationary surge is far from over...

🔗 French economist Marc Touati

⚡️ Macron: France to 'swiftly deliver' 6 Caesar howitzers to Ukraine.

French President Emmanuel Macron said that the NATO allies meeting in Madrid unanimously decided to step up their economic, humanitarian and military support for Ukraine.

France will deliver "6 more Caesar howitzers and a significant number of armored vehicles" to Ukraine, Macron said.

Comrades,

We are 3 regiments who refused to charge the enemy lines. We are going to the rear, it is up to all of us to do the same, if we want to save our skin.

Signed: The 5th Division.

✍🏻 Mutineer's letter to fellow soldiers, World War 1

🖼 Imaginary View of the Grand Gallery of the Louvre in Ruins — Hubert Robert, 1796

This is how an attachment to tradition is legitimized, this invisible Ariadne's thread that links generations and tames human times by ritualizing them.

The more change accelerates, the more imperative becomes the need for permanence. The stronger the winds of History blow, the more the roots must penetrate the depths of the unconscious.

✍🏻 Denis Tillinac, via @zentropa
🖼 La Jument lighthouse during a storm, 1981

👋🏻 Gallia Daily here, wishing a wonderful Sunday to all our subscribers and reminding you that you are part of a young specie with millennia of history waiting to be written. This too shall pass.

❤️ Credits goes to Pepe Library for this peculiar find.