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Humiliated in 2007 by disastrous crash tests, Chinese automakers are trying their luck again in Europe. This time with more efficient models, they begin to produce locally. Great Wall, a major Chinese groups, inaugurated on Tuesday its first plant in Bulgaria on the Old Continent. Initially, it plans to sell its cars in Bulgaria [...]

 
What managers should expect in terms of recruitment for 2012? The Apec, which surveyed 11,000 companies on their hiring intentions for this year, said Wednesday that "all frames will not be accommodated in the same boat." It emerges quite clearly in fact a two-tier market: on one hand, firms in sectors with high added [...]

Dentists in the annual conference through Friday in Paris, take the opportunity to remind the economic weight of their profession. The 40,100 dentists, 92% in private practice, employing 47,900 employees. They also work 17,800 people in the laboratories of prostheses and 4,000 people from their other suppliers, said the French Dental Association (ADF, which [...]

Eight days. It only took eight days for Italy, if attached to the chatter and bargaining that distract from the action, change of government. Eight days for a bloated team, dedicated to one man, Silvio Berlusconi, who won the 2008 elections, and defended by a right-wing coalition increasingly uncertain, gave way to a gathered [...]

At a silver lining. The great blunder of the rating agency S & P issued Thursday to its subscribers in error message suggesting that the note of France was degraded allowed to know the exact impact would have been the suppression agencies rating of the famous "AAA" from France.This information has been totally denied [...]

In the thorny issue of gas pricing, the Commission for Energy Regulation (CRE) wants to make its voice heard. In early October, the policeman made a sector review (Advisory) negative impact on the government's decision to freeze gas prices, finding an increase inevitable. Today, the CRE takes a stir throughout the report, submitted to [...]

A sequence at high risk for economic diplomacy opened on Friday in Paris with a G20 Finance Ministers, which ends in mid-afternoon today. The summit precedes the meeting of European heads of state, October 23 in Brussels, to enable Europe to get united at the top twenty richest countries in the world, at Cannes, [...]

The difference in performance between Carrefour and Casino is evident on the stock market. Since January 1, Casino lost 18% against 41% for Carrefour. Over five years, fell by 8% Casino and Carrefour tumbles 64%. Despite a difficult French market, Casino manages to get its game against Carrefour. Casino has managed on several points. [...]

LE FIGARO – What do you expect your visit to France?
Michalis CHRYSSOHOÏDIS – France is a strategic partner, the second largest foreign investor after Germany. I will meet with the bank Oséo. The SME Bank is to me a model success story. It has supported companies in recent years and has funded [...]

At its third week of protest, the anti-capitalist "Occupy Wall Street" (Let's take care Wall Street) has found an ally for the least expected in the person of George Soros. Asked Monday on the sidelines of a press conference at the UN, the American has experienced financial sympathy for the protesters and their views, [...]