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• Financial crisis: the accused has changed sides
In September 2008, the President shall declare 38 times the word "crisis". At the time, into recession is symbolized by the collapse of the subprime bubble and the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In November 2011, the difficulties have not disappeared, but the excessive debt of [...]

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 [...]

Sales of the Apple iPhone 4S could be banned in France. Because Samsung decided to hit hard by attacking the latest addition to his great rival before the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris. Its angle of attack: Apple uses the patent in which the 3G Samsung claims authorship. Within months, the competition between [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

The bankruptcy of thousands of municipalities, local authorities and public institutions French becomes clearer. In fact, 5500 government entities agreed with toxic loans between 1995 and 2009, according to a confidential document from the bank Dexia revealed by Liberation.
Thus, at the height of the financial bubble, the specialist in financing local authorities [...]

The salvation of the euro area could come from China. Forced to borrow at prohibitive rates Monday morning, Rome had in fact asked Beijing to make significant repurchases of its sovereign debt, reports the Financial Times. A member of the Italian government confirmed on Monday the existence of discussions with the Middle Kingdom on [...]

The leaders of the euro area have increased their telephone calls all day Friday, but failed to contain the fire in financial markets. The European stock markets recorded a tenth straight session of declines, despite employment statistics better than expected in the United States.
The pressure was at its height on Friday night [...]

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 [...]

Impatience is not formally expressed, but the signal is clear: the leaders of three major European institutions – the Council, the Commission and the Central Bank – can be found Monday morning in order to spur the seventeen countries of the euro, still unable to agree on mounting a second rescue plan for Greece. [...]