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Mercredi 2 août, réalisation : Josselin Brémaud SocGen Lags French Rivals in Equities Trading, Shares Fall (online) .........................................................6 FRANCE – EUROPE ........................... 2 SocGen Litigation Cloud Lingers Over International Macron Vowed to Be Business Friendly. Now He Growth ............................................................................6 Faces a Protectionist Uproar. (online) ............................ 2 Laurent : The Banker President Only Gets France's Editorial : On the Macron Waterfront ............................. 3 Banks So Far ...................................................................7 France, Facing Criticism, Promises the Bare Essentials Science Magazine : After French drug trial tragedy, for Migrants .................................................................... 4 European Union issues new rules to protect study CBS : North Korea intercontinental ballistic missile volunteers ........................................................................7 (ICBM) flew near Air France jet flight path ................... 5 Editorial : Take Your Time, Bank of England ................8 Italy and France Still Split Over Shipyard ...................... 5 Revue de presse américaine du 2 août 2017 1 Eurozone Economy Speeds Up, Raising Chance of Friedman : Climate Shifts Aren’t Limited to the Stimulus Taper ................................................................ 8 Weather .........................................................................26 INTERNATIONAL ............................... 9 ETATS-UNIS.......................................27 Tillerson Tamps Down Talk of North Korean Regime Some Insurers Seek ACA Premium Increases of 30% Change ............................................................................ 9 and Higher (UNE) .........................................................27 Rex Tillerson: U.S. Wants North Korea Talks at 'Some Republicans in Congress Bypass Trump to Shore Up Point' ............................................................................. 10 Health Law (UNE) ........................................................28 Tillerson to North Korea: ‘We are not your enemy’ ..... 10 Senate Republicans Rebuff Donald Trump’s Health- North Korean Missiles May Be Too Advanced for Care Push ......................................................................29 More Sanctions ............................................................. 11 GOP Proposal Aims to Keep Health Overhaul Going ..29 Ted Cruz : How to degrade the growing power of Can this marriage be saved? Relationship between North Korea .................................................................. 11 Trump, Senate GOP hits new skids. ..............................30 Jenkins Jr. : Nukes Won’t Save North Korea ............... 12 Donald Trump: Senate Republicans Turning Backs on Ignatius : Trump is right about China and North Korea13 President ........................................................................31 U.S. Plans Trade Measures Against China (UNE) ....... 13 Editorial : ObamaCare for Congress .............................32 Editorial : How America can honor a Chinese dissident Editorial : Stop Sabotaging Obamacare, Mr. President 32 — and help protect his widow ...................................... 14 Galston : Can the ‘Problem Solvers’ Fix ObamaCare? .32 Islamic State and Climate Change Seen as World’s Rep. Jim Jordan : People don’t want more Obamacare 33 Greatest Threats, Poll Says ........................................... 15 Senator Lankford : How to Make the Senate Work Donald Trump Is Pushing America’s Special Forces Again .............................................................................33 Past the Breaking Point ................................................. 16 Trump Loyalist Mixes Businesses and Access at Tillerson spurns $80 million to counter ISIS, Russian ‘Advisory’ Firm (UNE).................................................34 propaganda .................................................................... 17 Trump Was Involved in Drafting Son’s Statement, Editorial : Whose Message to Believe on Russia? ........ 18 Aide Confirms ...............................................................35 Pentagon and State Department Said to Propose Senate Confirms Christopher Wray as New F.B.I. Arming Ukraine ............................................................ 19 Director .........................................................................35 Editorial : A Trump Card in Ukraine ............................ 19 In Trump’s White House, the women are the survivors36 Bershidsky : Sending 'Defensive' Arms to Ukraine Williamson : Time for Stephen Bannon to Start Would Be Deadly .......................................................... 20 Worrying? .....................................................................37 Iran Says New U.S. Sanctions Violate Nuclear Deal ... 20 Milbank : Can anyone get a handle on the president Andreasen and Simon : Is Trump Scheming to Kill the who handles everything? ...............................................38 Iran Deal? ...................................................................... 21 Action on Trump’s tax cut plan could be delayed until Ross : Tillerson Can End the Qatar Standoff ................ 22 next year (UNE) ............................................................38 Editorial : An Arab model for curbing domestic Newt Gingrich and Brad Anderson : Pass GOP tax cuts violence ......................................................................... 22 by Thanksgiving or lose the House ...............................39 Jailings Raise Fears of Dictatorship in Venezuela Editorial : Time for the Trump administration to speak (UNE)............................................................................ 22 with one voice on the debt ceiling .................................40 Top Venezuelan opposition leaders taken into custody Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in amid fears of wider crackdowns (UNE) ....................... 23 College Admissions (UNE) ...........................................40 Editorial : Venezuela Abandons Any Claim to Editorial : The Body Count at the Border .....................41 Democracy .................................................................... 24 Editorial : The Olympics could be a boon for Los A reporter’s journey through Tripoli: Long lines, Angeles, but it's foolish to think we can't lose ..............41 kidnappings and murder (UNE) .................................... 25 FRANCE – EUROPE Macron Vowed to Be Business Friendly. Now He Faces a Protectionist Uproar. (online) Liz Alderman the shipyard STX France by an in St.-Nazaire, during a visit in May. Italian competitor. Here, he speaks Stephane Mahe/Reuters 8-11 minutes President Emmanuel Macron vowed to a worker at the shipyard, which is to review an imminent takeover of Revue de presse américaine du 2 août 2017 2 PARIS — Two weeks after taking with existing institutions and the A French buyer finally sealed a deal In the case of STX, Mr. Macron’s office, President Emmanuel Macron, culture, and that won’t just go away this week. Fewer than half the jobs government said its concerns went donning a white hard hat, stood in a few months.” will be kept. beyond jobs. Under the contract before hundreds of employees at signed by former President François the nation’s largest shipyard, Successive presidents have While Mr. Macron’s early actions set Hollande, the Italian state-backed promising to protect a French jewel declared France “open for a distinct pattern, it is not clear how shipbuilder Fincantieri was to take a from falling into foreign hands. business,” only to get intimately much further he will go. He is still two-thirds stake in the French involved in corporate takeovers, hoping to lay the groundwork for shipyard held by a now-bankrupt As one of his first major acts, Mr. especially when a foreign company growth, in part by lightening the South Korean owner. Macron vowed to review an is making a play. French state’s hand in companies, imminent takeover of the shipyard, which could make such economic Fincantieri had pledged to keep STX France, by an Italian As economy minister, Mr. Macron, intervention less possible. thousands of jobs and orders for the competitor. “We’re an industrial center, increased the government’s next five years at Saint Nazaire. The power,” he told cheering workers, stake in the French automaker “It looks bad for France’s image right hulking operation makes many of who had just completed building the Renault over the objection of Carlos now,” said Patrick Artus, the chief the world’s mega-cruiseships and world’s biggest luxury cruise liner, Ghosn, the chief executive, right. economist at the French bank has the capacity to build aircraft the Meraviglia. “We must guarantee Charly Triballeau/Agence France- Natixis. “But I don’t think his mission carriers and other naval vessels. the preservation of jobs.” Presse — Getty Images is to increase the activism of the state.” The French government said the The government is now trying to President François Hollande’s deal could jeopardize the Saint- defuse an uproar in Rome, days government tried to thwart a bid by Mr. Macron has pledged to revamp Nazaire operations in part because after blocking the deal and General Electric to buy the power France’s costly pension system, to Fincantieri holds stakes in Chinese nationalizing STX. business of Alstom, a top maker of invest in education