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Today's Newsletter
  1. Young Leaders Webinar: Restarting the Economy After COVID-19
  2. Headlines
  3. French Municipal Elections
  4. July 4th Musical Special
  5. Previous Webinars
Young Leaders Webinar
Join us for a  Young Leader-led webinar in partnership with our sister organization, the  French-American Foundation - France. The event is free and open to the public.



Young Leaders Perspectives
with
Executive Vice President of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) & American Young Leader ’17
&
Global Head of Finance, Strategy, and Participations at BNP Paribas Asset Management & French Young Leader ’17

  • Topic: Economy
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, July 2 at 12:30 pm ET
  • RSVP: Click HERE to sign up. Registered guests will receive a link to join in the days leading up to the event.
Headlines
# BlackLivesMatter
U.S. Cases Reach New Record , The New York Times
  • "More than 48,000 coronavirus cases were announced across the country and eight states announced single-day highs. Europe opens its doors — just not to Americans. (...)"

  • "President Trump has spent the last month lapping Democrat Joe Biden on the campaign trail, traveling to more places with bigger crowds, giving more interviews and dominating daily news coverage. But political strategists in both parties agree that Biden is the one who had benefited so far. (...)"

  • "President Trump’s case for re-election reprises his pitch for a first term in office, as he and his team try to portray presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden as an incumbent while accentuating his own outsider credentials. (...)"

  • "US tourists will be excluded from visiting the European Union after the bloc finalized its list of 15 safe countries for travel to member states on Tuesday. The EU has formally agreed a set of recommendations for the nationalities of travelers that should be allowed to enter its borders, effective from July 1 -- and the US is not included. (...)"

  • "The slow-motion execution of George Floyd has ignited an incandescent social movement. In every state and around the world, people of all colors, genders, and ages are coming together to march in fury and in hope, to renounce the past and redeem the future. (...)"
French Municipal Elections
  • "Emmanuel Macron’s party was defeated in the Paris mayor’s race and Green Party candidates won in several other major cities, turning French local elections into a warning for the president. (...)"

  • " Marine Le Pen has tried to put a brave face on the results of the belated second round of the French municipal elections last weekend. She described the results as a “truly great victory,” pointing to the success of her former boyfriend, Louis Aliot, in the southern city of Perpignan — the biggest prize to be captured by the far right since 1995. (...)"

  • "Fin du calvaire. Après des élections présidentielle et législatives triomphales en 2017, puis des européennes honorables en 2019, les élections municipales se révèlent être un échec cuisant pour La République en marche (LRM). Lors du second tour du scrutin, dimanche 28 juin, les candidats de la formation présidentielle ont été battus partout, ou presque. (...)"

  • "Record battu. Jamais la participation n'aura été aussi basse lors d'une élection en France. Selon le ministère de l'intérieur, seuls 41,6% des électeurs se sont déplacés aux urnes pour le second tour des élections municipales ce dimanche. Un bilan en baisse d'une quinzaine de points par rapport au premier tour du 15 mars (44,66 % d'abstention), et une chute libre par rapport au scrutin de 2014 : à l’époque, ils étaient 36,45% à ne pas s'être déplacés. (...)"
July 4th Musical Special
CNN will host a Fourth of July primetime musical special honoring the US military, frontline workers battling the coronavirus pandemic and citizens across the country demanding equality.

CNN's "The Fourth in America" will air from 8 p.m.-12 a.m . ET and will be hosted by CNN's Don Lemon in New York and CNN's Dana Bash in Washington, DC.

The event will feature musical performances from Jewel, Barry Manilow, Martina McBride, Kenny Loggins, Andy Grammer, Carlos and Cindy Santana, CeCe Winans, Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, The O'Jays, Don McLean, Jesse Colin Young and Little Kids Rock, Burt Bacharach & Musicians from the Berklee College of Music, Harlem Gospel Choir, the original Broadway cast of Girl From the North Country, inspired by the legendary songs of Bob Dylan and the cast of Ain't Too Proud -- The Life and Times of the Temptations. Read more .
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