Summary: Ukraine, world laboratory for military drones. Defense industries around the world are scrambling to sign partnerships. In the Press Review, we also question European digital sovereignty, at a time when the Trump administration is forcing the AI giant, Antropic, to suspend access to its technologies outside the United States.
In France, the difficulties in obtaining a residence permit
The European Parliament adopted, this Wednesday, June 17, 2026, a regulation paving the way for the return of people rejected from asylum to centers located outside the borders of the European Union. These “return hubs”, already envisaged by Denmark, Austria or Italy, in Rwanda, Uganda or Albania, are yet another turn of the screw in the construction of a fortress Europe, which complicates the lives of asylum seekers, but also that of legally settled foreigners.
In Francethe deadlines for renewing residence permits have exploded in recent months, plunging thousands of people into illegality and precariousness. Since January, you must also pass a new civic exam to hope to obtain a long-term residence permit. Report from Clementine Moreau.
In Ukraine, the drone war attracts European industrialists
Surveillance drones, mini-drones, kamikaze drones… In Ukraine, in the air, at sea and on land, these technologies have become essential on the battlefield. In their war of attrition, kyiv and Moscow are relying massively on these technologies, to the point of surpassing in volume the former giants of the sector, American, Israeli or Turkish.
Inventive, inexpensive and adapted to the realities of the front, the Ukrainians have built a sector which attracts the attention of European defense industrialists. Report fromEmmanuelle Chaze.
Franceline Beretti’s press review
– the race for artificial intelligence and the debate on European digital sovereignty
– the assassination of an artist critical of Putin in Poland
– the very musical and surprising political communication of the Élysée.
In Italy, tales are told over the telephone
In Italyadults read less and less: only one in three Italians finishes a book during the year. But among children, the taste for reading resists, driven by original initiatives. In Pistoia, in Tuscany, library fables and tales are also told… over the telephone. Explanations of Debarge checks.
