Portugal: José Socrates refuses to let go

June 5, 2011

This is a schoolboy joke, but we hear it everywhere in Lisbon. If the sky is gray if the coffee machine is broken or if one falls down, "A culpa é do Socrates!" Socrates is to blame! Portuguese Prime Minister of course embodies the grim prospects that beset his ...

A320 NEO: headache for Airbus

May 25, 2011

The commercial breakthrough of the Airbus A320 NEO would it spinning the puzzle industry? Officially, no. Still, John Leahy, the Airbus super salesman, the pounds: the manufacturer does not want its customers convert all or part of their A320 orders classic NEO, with new engines consume less fuel. This, ...

The "Works" EDF still pinned

May 23, 2011

Once again, the "Works" electricians and gas finds himself in the crosshairs of the Court of Auditors. After a year and a half of work, its new thematic report on social institutions of electricity and gas industries (IEG, EDF and GDF mainly) is published on Monday. The document, which ...

Cars delivered more later

May 2, 2011

Japanese disaster has affected the delivery of cars. The earthquake was indeed disrupted production of key subcontractors located in the archipelago. Hence, for builders, supply problems in air conditioning, radios, microprocessors or color pigments for metallic colors. Therefore, delivery times are getting longer, says the magazine Auto Plus ...

TFR: Nicolas Sarkozy has chosen the compromise

April 14, 2011

For four months, the proposed tax reform has stirred heritage divided, sometimes frightened the majority and fanned all opposition critics. Upon arrival, the solution collects almost unanimously on the right, and criticism "minimum service" to the left. "The president has listened and heard, welcomed the centrist MP Charles ...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange unscrewed, Hong Kong rises

April 5, 2011

Gloomy day at the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Shortly before the close, the Nikkei 225 1.52% loose on Tuesday to 9570.98 points. The Japanese index is penalized by including Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), which still fall 15.64% to 372 yen. This brings to more than 80% decline since its March ...

Portugal: disowned, Socrates resigns

March 24, 2011

Portugal should play the holdouts of an EU summit, expected to turn the page of the debt crisis in the euro zone on Thursday. European governments have scrutinized every Wednesday night after the vote in Parliament, the fourth austerity plan of the socialist government. And rejection of the ...

CNIL sanctions slippage "Google" cars

March 23, 2011

The CNIL does Google pay its "lightness" and "negligence." Last week, the National Commission on Informatics and Freedoms has condemned the U.S. group was fined 100,000 euros for having made a collection "massive" private data on Wi-Fi networks in France, she announced Monday. It is the largest fine since ...

Supply: the price has reduced EADS against Boeing

February 26, 2011

"Disappointed and perplexed." Thus Louis Welsh, CEO of EADS, was defined yesterday morning after the Pentagon decided to award late in the evening of Thursday, the contract of the century to supply 179 tanker aircraft from Boeing at the expense European aviation giant. In general, the reactions are ...

G20: an agreement on the extent of global imbalances

February 20, 2011

A few hours of the end of the summit of G20 finance ministers of the richest countries of the world have finally reached an agreement on how to measure global economic imbalances. "We have an agreement, everyone has put his own," said the president. This agreement was possible ...

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