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Will Donald Trump manage to preserve the Republican majority in Congress in the mid-term elections? Higher prices, immigration, artificial intelligence and war in Iran: its domestic and foreign policy calls on the campaign, while the Democrats seek to win back decisive seats. Analysis with Matthieu Mabin, France 24 correspondent, and Jérôme Viala-Godefroy, lecturer at Sciences Po.
On the eve of an EU meeting, the US is calling for additional diesel volumes to be placed on the market, according to the press, under threat of banning its exports. Gas oil prices reach record prices on both sides of the Atlantic, penalised by the Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries and Iran's blocking of the Ormuz Strait.
Acting on aid but also on supplies: this week, the executive couple deploys to try to calm the social grunt on fuels, whose prices are blazing and the purchasing power is under way, which has become a major theme of the presidential campaign. The price of diesel oil reached Sunday, September 20, 2,41 euros, of the never seen in France.
