Month after month, Europe confirms that it is a disaster area in the car. In April, sales of new cars fell 6.9% year on year, its seventh consecutive monthly decline. After falling 7.5% since the beginning of the year will likely decline in 2012 for the fifth consecutive year.
The situations are however [...]
May
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May
7
Five months after the sinking of Concordia, Costa Cruises ship owner wants to turn the page by launching a new ship, the Fascinosa, luxurious building 290 meters long, up to and seventeen bridges capable of carrying 3800 passengers. Some 510 million euros have been invested to build the fleet of the fifteenth unit in [...]
Apr
1
Times are tough for Philips. Former world number one on many markets consumer electronics, the Dutch group continues to see its market share decline. Including the segment of headphones, one of the most promising areas of the moment. In two years, sales of helmets rose 30% in France. Philips has lost eight points of [...]
Mar
25
Gender equality is properly the subject of agreements with social partners. Just as returning from maternity leave, "interviews" are provided in most companies. Why, then, women have as much trouble to return to work?
"After a maternity or parental leave, employees often feel of being outside projects. There was a loss of connection. [...]
Mar
17
The popularity of Apple is more than ever to go. Queues of hundreds of people were already this morning in front of stores in Asia to buy the new iPad. The new version of Apple's tablet is sold from today in ten countries, including France but also Japan, the United States and Hong Kong. [...]
Mar
8
The carbon tax decided by the Europeans could threaten 20% of the production of large aircraft – the A 330 and A 380 – Airbus alert Louis Welsh, CEO of EADS, the parent company of Airbus.
There are already industrial consequences that amount to retaliation. The Chinese government has frozen any decision acquisitions [...]
Feb
24
Nicolas Sarkozy's promise to the workers and employees is clear: lowering of 4 billion euros labor costs at the minimum wage, will increase their take home pay. To finance the measure without worsening deficits, it intends to eliminate the employment bonus (PPE) and increase the taxation of dividends. A device that is the electorate. [...]
Feb
10
An agreement in the snatch and the future still uncertain! After several months of negotiations punctuated by multiple twists and endless political after exhausting all possible time, the coalition government of Lucas Papademos has finally know yesterday that he had accepted the terms of its creditors , potentially paving the way for possible release [...]
Nov
18
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 [...]
Oct
14
Three weeks after the government's announcement to freeze gas prices for individuals on or after October 1, GDF Suez took, as the company announced at the time, the competent courts in protest against the decision. The group on Thursday filed an action for the Council of State to request the cancellation of an order [...]