The draft budget of the European Union (EU) for the period 2014-2020 annoys London. "The Commission proposal is totally unrealistic. It is too large, does not match the limited budget that we announced and is incompatible with the difficult decisions taken in countries throughout Europe to make budget savings, "said a spokesman for the [...]
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
8
"It's like a firefighter trying to douse the fire he lit himself," smiled a Bordeaux wine merchant. A few weeks after he praised the quality of the 2010 vintage of Bordeaux wines, which sold en primeur has just begun, the taster American Robert Parker has sounded the alarm. It would be wrong to raise [...]
Jun
3
At Avignon
Exit the Cafeterias Casino! The group Etienne opened Tuesday at the mall Avignon Cap Sud his new restaurant concept at the right time, which should gradually drive the brand history. Four years after the launch of Counter Casino and its Express version, the new brand should help drive the brand history, [...]
May
8
In Atlanta
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Apr
30
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 [...]
Apr
29
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 [...]
Apr
20
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 [...]
Apr
18
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 [...]
Mar
9
After the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, the European Union to freeze billions of euros from the Central Bank of Libya and Libyan sovereign fund, the Libyan Investment Authority. The 27 countries of the European Union have agreed on this issue, diplomatic sources. The formal agreement should be endorsed Friday by the [...]