France's prime minister, Francois Bayrou, has proposed scrapping two public holidays as part of radical measures aimed at reducing the country's ballooning deficit, boosting its economy and preventing it being crushed by debt.
"Calling today for a ceasefire in Gaza without any condition, is just telling to the rest of the world that for us as Europeans, there is no double standard, and as we are attached to human lives, as we are attached to territorial integrity, we want the ceasefire, no discussion."
We expected the opposite result. We then noticed that in the glass, the particles emerging from the samples were the same shape, color and polymer composition - so therefore the same plastic - as the paint on the outside of the caps that seal the glass bottles.