(Special Envoy to Berlin) The pavement of the road shines in front of decrepit facades. Raining cats and dogs in this small village in the former East Germany. Are expected to disembark Walter Ulbricht or Erich Honecker inaugurating a model farm and a gymnasium. But it is West who won. The sequence nostalgia runs [...]
Jul
9
What a paradox! If criticized for its negative impact on the environment, China's largest producer and consumer of coal with 3 billion tonnes per year, making it the slow global warming.
Greenpeace officials, who estimate that 5.20 euros per tonne the cost of this energy source on the health of the Chinese, have [...]
Jul
2
This is the miracle of a well-considered financial communications. EuropaCorp, the film production studio of Luc Besson, this morning announced a net loss for the year 2010-2011 of 30.2 million euros after a loss of 9.2 million in 2009-2010. Operating income amounted to – against 47.4 million – 16.2 million in 2009/10. At the [...]
Jun
29
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, presented Tuesday in New York, Office 365, the set of office software tailored to the "cloud," distributed computing on the Internet. This is a "collaboration tool for the productivity of individuals and businesses, which operate around the world and all the equipment," said the boss of the world's largest software. [...]
Jun
27
If the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao expressed his "confidence" in the future of the euro area and promised to continue investing in the region at the beginning of a new tour on the old continent, the mood remains tense markets Financial. While stock markets in Asia are changing declined this morning, the Cac 40devrait [...]
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
31
The death toll from the entero-haemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) has been revised upwards in Germany. It is now 12 people have died because of this bacterium. Announced a review by the county while the institute for health surveillance does not recognize yet that three deaths directly attributable to the EHEC, pending analysis on other [...]
May
10
Meanwhile how OL GROUP, led by Jean-Michel Aulas, will provide funding for a new stadium, investors seem to be on the lookout for any new funding. On Monday, the track climbed nearly 2% to 5.90 euros after the announcement this weekend by the management of the signing of the syndicated loan of 57 million. [...]
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 [...]