This is a realization of a long-term project that must be born earlier this week. The association Optics solidarity launches on Monday the "pass glasses." A device that should allow seniors whose financial resources are too thin to allow them to purchase a mutual good, to provide appropriate spectacles from their view. 8,000 to [...]
May
20
May
19
Our correspondents in Athens and Madrid
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 [...]
May
17
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
15
Critics of the measure as its proponents can not but agree with Bernard Thibault: it will be "an event in Europe." Francois Hollande promised that one of his first acts would be to extend, by order, the possibility for some employees to retire at age 60. "This is the first time in many years [...]
Apr
3
One million dollars per day, or 750,000 euros. Such is the cost of operations by Total to plug the leak on board its platform Elgin, North Sea, said Monday its chief financial officer Patrick de la Chevardière. Added to this bill a loss of $ 1.5 million each day (1.12 million) which corresponds to [...]
Mar
10
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 [...]
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. [...]
Dec
1
• 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 [...]
Oct
25
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 [...]
Oct
22
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 [...]