In 1999, at the launch of the euro, one of the issues dealt with its ability to compete with the dollar as the international currency. Some experts, euphoric, even considering that the single currency can dethrone the...
At Montauban, the number of permits issued each year became a confidential information. There where the annual rate of approvals stood at 250 per year in the 1990s, he moved to 800 since 2001, with a tip to 1,000 in...
François Fillon had on the legislation to establish its place in the new balance of power imposed by Nicolas Sarkozy: victory in the mixed blessing of the second round is the not allowed. Two weeks after the vote,...
the abolition of the "Corn Laws". It causes the rallying of numerous industrial and intellectuals of the region. Among them: Richard Cobden. Later, it will speak of the Manchester school to designate this group of...
In deciding to hit hard, day before yesterday, by a drop of half a percentage point of its main interest rate and its discount rate, the US Central Bank doped markets and reassured the economists, who believe real...
After five days of a particularly followed by strike, the hostesses and stewards of Air France should return to work today. At the end of a General Assembly, yesterday afternoon, the main unions of PNC (commercial...
A determination of the limit of the hard, a certain taste for "things complicated to dépatouiller" and... a formidable sense of the Organization: this is the recipe for the success of Isabelle Kocher, Director General...
The crisis of the "subprime", putting the banks at the foot of the wall, sounding singularly sector maps. Considered previously too prudent, this is now BNP Paribas propelled to the rank of visionary group, at the...
It's the calm dish during the storm. Activity on the primary market in the first quarter is distinguished by a net trough in Europe. Capital raised reached $ 21 billion, is a fall of more than 65 over the same period...
The debate on the EU membership of the Turkey showed the complexity of a country symbolized by its great metropolis, ancient Byzantium became Konstantinoupolis who, in Greek, means "the city of Constantine" (now in...
Times are hard for insurers. For evidence, MAAF (Covea group) saw its new contracts auto progression of 150.000 in 2005 to 54.376 in 2007. Side comprehensive housing (HRM), the observation is also bleak. Many insurers...
Aquelques days of the new intergovernmental (expert group) IPCC report on climate change, it is useful to take stock of the analyses and the deductions updated by the scientific community. Climatologists,...
The Summit between the European Union and the Ukraine, today in Evian, takes place against a backdrop of loaded. Kiev is taken in a yet another political turmoil after the announcement last week of the collapse of the...
Before that Microsoft become world-famous, Bill Gates had a particular asset in its network: his mother, Mary, was a member of the Board of Directors of the charity United Way, which was also John Akers, a leader of...
While the French automobile market now gives NET signs of shortness of breath, and that most of the manufacturers close their factories for technical unemployment, lack of orders for manufacturers, the State seeks the...
General caseAttention on social matters, the amounts indicated below are minimum assessments that can be replaced with higher amounts of mutual agreement between employees and their employers, in the absence of higher...
This is a first. While in 2008, the French banks were still very excited about the prospects for recruitment, after a 2007 record year (70,000 hires including 30,000 in France by the French Banking Federation), 2009...
In Nigeria, the movement of Europeans are with driver and armed guard, military escort around. In Lagos, the former capital, not question for an expatriate to walk the streets. It is too dangerous. It is not too close...
At the end of the month of August, 1940, a stormy meeting is held on the 26th floor of the Chrysler Building, the Texaco New York headquarters. Some 20 people were convened, the key executives of the oil company and of...
Earthquake in French geology. The Office of geological and mining research (BRGM) is shaken by the imminence of a change of President. From our information, Philippe Vesseron won't get not the Government's renewal of...
