May 17, 2012
Right in his boots but educational. Thierry Thuillier, head of information of France Televisions, did not intend to change its course despite the confidence motion addressed to him by writing nationale de France 3 on Tuesday night. The latter accused the group of "systematically favor France 2 on the ...
May 11, 2012
Imagine that the "Greek Mélenchon" Alexis Tsipras, took power in Athens. The charismatic leader of the far left Syriza hoisted his party to second place in Sunday's parliamentary election. It may well prevail during the next legislative likely in early June. But Alexis Tsipras advocates stopping the austerity and ...
April 28, 2012
New blow for Spain and for the entire euro area. Standard & Poor's lowered the rating by two notches to the Spanish sovereign debt to "BBB +" against "A", despite high levels of austerity measures put in place. The fourth largest economy in the euro area is thus relegated ...
April 24, 2012
Presidential in major cities Paris | Leeds | Lyons | Toulouse | Leeds | Sheffield | Liverpool | Bordeaux | Lille
March 18, 2012
TO LOSE WEIGHT IS 1. Freeze the salaries of officials With € 285 billion, salaries and pensions of the public are the first state budget. Although the "index points" (which is the reference to general increases) is frozen this year for the second consecutive year, the remuneration ...
February 12, 2012
Football clubs are they like other entities? The question worth asking, when European football comes back to show a record deficit for its fiscal year 2010: more than 1.6 billion cumulative loss by 665 European clubs in first division. As for the debt, it reached nearly 15 billion euros, ...
October 22, 2011
The tax. It scares some, who left France for tax heavens warmer (Switzerland in the lead). It works the other. The French tax system is so dense that the understanding, and around, held for hours and other estate planning tax, paid to find clever editing which will reduce the ...
October 14, 2011
Another bad news for Carrefour. For the fifth time this year, despite a slight increase of 0.3% of quarterly sales as reported at 22.8 billion euros (-0.6% on a comparable basis, excluding petrol), the distributor launches warning on its results. "In an environment of increasingly uncertain, we wanted to ...
September 30, 2011
Of the 600 amendments to the bill on consumption currently being debated in the National Assembly, MPs have finally decided to limit to 12 months duration of mobile phone packages. The maximum consumer engagement remains at 24 months. "I do not want a ban long packages. It is the ...
September 19, 2011
In recent days, negotiations have intensified between the government and GDF Suez on the revision of gas prices on 1 October. The company has done his: it is entitled to claim a rate increase of nearly 5%. The service contract that binds the State says that the group ...