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LE FIGARO. – Unemployment is falling for three months but the unions do hold that the proliferation of small jobs, CDD short positions in the interim … Do you recognize a certain insecurity?
Xavier BERTRAND. – The decline in the number of jobseekers is the largest since early 2008 and we had not [...]

Frédéric Lefebvre unveils measures are announced Friday at the National Conference of simplification.
LE FIGARO. – Will you reduce the paperwork?
Frederic Lefebvre. – Business leaders have sent 600 proposals for simplification. With Jean-Luc Warsmann and Jean-Michel Aulas, who co-chair the Audience, we prepared a first set of 80 measures that address [...]

The effects of the global crisis will be felt on sustainable public finances in Europe. In 2010, the year of recovery for the European economy, the countries of the euro area show that more poor results in terms of criteria set by the European treaties (see graphic), according to figures released Tuesday by Eurostat. [...]

It was only four days after the tsunami of 11 March. While the world was suspended from the desperate efforts of the Japanese to cool four nuclear reactors in Fukushima packed, the South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, inaugurated the construction of future nuclear power Braka in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi UAE. The same [...]

• How many employees are potentially affected?
Compulsory in companies with more than 50 employees that pay dividends increase, the premium will be potentially granted by 30,000 companies, 8 million people. But the actual number of beneficiaries should be much lower: all the companies involved do not distribute dividends each year, let alone [...]

Send home a reading chair or rug signed Hermes Christian Lacroix, some have dreamed. For them, the Milan Furniture Fair, the two groups have announced an exclusive ten parts intended for use in homes, all manufactured in partnership with renowned Italian groups.
For the drawing, the saddle has partnered with designers Enzo Mari [...]

Anxious to combat its declining popularity, Barack Obama Wednesday on Facebook bet to get his new message: "Through shared sacrifices, America will reduce its deficits while saving its social systems."
The President of the United States was at the head of Facebook in Palo Alto, to mobilize and convince young people and nineteen [...]

A week after the opening of the new earnings season, investors pull a poor record of the first publications and prudence will be more necessary than ever, while the quarterly number of trucks are expected. On the macroeconomic front, no indicator is expected Monday.
The New York Stock Exchange opened down Monday, burdened [...]

The government wants to regain control of the social terrain. Freezing gas prices, revaluation of kilometric scale, paying a premium for employees in companies that distribute dividends to their shareholders … These initiatives redo the executive to the forefront of French political concerns, those bearing on their purchasing power. "In crisis, we must take [...]

This is the best performance since the first quarter of 2008. The consolidated sales of Danone rose 19.6% to 4.757 million euros in first quarter 2011 according to the statement released by the group Thursday. "Danone teams have made over several quarters a great job. Our four businesses and all our geographies are accelerating, [...]