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The eurozone is trying to stem the risk of bank runs at its periphery. In Greece, where the run on windows is the most serious – aggravated by the deterioration of the bank notes by the rating agencies – the Bank of Greece has corrected the figures [...]

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In the logic of "rights and duties" which is his, Nicolas Sarkozy promised Monday night to tax tax exiles. The Government has already established last year an exit tax, which taxes unrealized gains of the French going abroad. But the president-candidate wants to go further, proposing that any tax paid to the exiled French [...]

 
Gerard Couturier, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SNCM, playing double or quits. He has written to Paul Giacobbi, the President of the Corsican regional authorities, to propose to take control of the company for a symbolic euro and thus facilitate the creation of the Regional demanded by the aedile. SNCM is destabilized both [...]

 
New episode in the folder Veolia Environnement. Its CEO, Mr. Frérot, is on trial. Borloo could indeed take control group of utilities and largest private employer in France. According to Les Echos, hostilities between the former boss of Veolia now head of EDF, and the runner Proglio Antoine Frérot, arrived at the helm of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Earlier this month, GDF Suez officially celebrated very millionth customer to the electricity in France, "a success despite a complex and uncertain competitive environment." The energy group was immediately assigned the 1.5 million customers at the end of 2012. If it passes this course, GDF Suez will claim 4.5% of the electricity market in [...]

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, [...]

While the French government is trying to accept a tax on sodas, Denmark chooses to go further. The country became on Saturday the world's first to introduce a tax on fat. Presented as a measure to fight against obesity, it will increase the prices of 16 kroner (2.15 euros) per kilogram of saturated fat. [...]