The uncertainty seems to have finally dissipated in Washington. After long weeks of negotiations, Republicans and Democrats finally have reached an agreement to raise the U.S. debt ceiling. After a retraction in the Sunday afternoon, the White House confirmed Sunday night (Monday morning Paris time) that President Barack Obama and Congress had reached agreement [...]
Jul
25
(Special Envoy to Berlin) The pavement of the road shines in front of decrepit facades. Raining cats and dogs in this small village in the former East Germany. Are expected to disembark Walter Ulbricht or Erich Honecker inaugurating a model farm and a gymnasium. But it is West who won. The sequence nostalgia runs [...]
Jul
15
It is a subsidiary of TF1, which assumes the top spot cable channels and satellite channels out free DTT. According Mediamat'Thématik – which measures the audiences of channels on cable, satellite and ADSL – the TV Breizh minigénéraliste prances at the head of the study conducted from January 3 to June 19, although it [...]
Jul
13
Asian stock markets found the way to the rise on Wednesday. These days were marked by a sharp decline in seats in the region due to fear of contagion of sovereign debt problems in several countries in the euro area. Yesterday, European and U.S. stock markets have limited their losses after the announcement by [...]
Jun
22
The Paris Bourse tries a timid rebound on Tuesday. Tensions remain very strong in Europe as it is now the Greek Parliament will decide whether to grant its confidence in the new government formed by George Papandreou. Greek Prime Minister called for a national agreement of political parties to adopt its austerity plan and [...]
Jun
20
The Chinese and Russians create the event at Le Bourget. The manufacturer Comac exhibited for the first time outside China a half-scale model of one of its C-919, a future rival of the Boeing 320 and Airbus A 737 B to be commissioned in 2016. The Chinese want to grow in all segments of [...]
Jun
19
In Athens
It is now the strongman of the government just revamped George Papandreou: Evangelos Venizelos. Imposing, talkative and impulsive, professor of constitutional law of 54 years did not mince his words when entering his new office as Minister of Finance: "I left the Department of Defense to enter a war", has he [...]
Jun
13
The U.S. textile specialist VF Corporation will put her hand on her compatriot Timberland. That's what we announced on Monday the two groups in a communiqué.VF Corp., which owns brands such as backpacks by The North Face and Eastpak, those pants Wrangler and Lee, or that of Vans shoes, putting on the table $ [...]
Jun
11
The deputies continued Friday to review the draft budget law amendment removing the tax shield and reducing the ISF. As expected, they voted in Article 1 of the bill abolishing the wealth tax for estates of less than EUR 1.3 million and revised the scale for the highest wealth. Now between 1.3 and 3 [...]
Jun
10
The automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen plans to close its site of Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) "Current 2014" and that of Sevelnord (North) in 2013, threatening 6,200 jobs, according to an internal document of the group presented to the press Thursday by the CGT. In this paper, it is clear that "planning is consistent with the guidelines [...]