To reduce public debt, the leaders of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives proposed a radical reform of the taxation system and health insurance of the elderly. The plan presented yesterday in Washington also plans to monitor more closely the rise in government spending, except for the post of defense.
The [...]
This is a first in the world of travel. The Supreme Court sentenced a tour operator to bear the costs of accommodation and the cost of renting a vehicle with a passenger accompanied by his family, blocked and baffled at the Meeting after the eruption Icelandic volcano Eyjafjöll two years ago.
So far, tour [...]
In the exclusive club of head offices, campuses are overshadowed by the towers. Straw! Effect of crisis or new building design? In the district of La Defense business, renovations progressing at a slow speed. First Tower, Axa old tower, was delivered in late 2011. Carpe Diem, down from its 38 floors, will be ready [...]
And if all eyes were still staring on the wrong side? Wednesday night, when presenting the new iPad in San Francisco, Apple also announced a significant drop in the price of iPad 2, which will continue to be sold in parallel. EUR 489, the tablet entry level is now moving to 409 euros (399 [...]
Making a phone call and surf the Internet to a hundred meters below the sea level? It will soon be possible in the Channel Tunnel. Its operator Eurotunnel has signed an agreement with the four French mobile operators (Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free), the Ministry of Economy and the supplier Alcatel-Lucent to install [...]
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To receive a new grant of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, the Greek parliament must adopt a new set of austerity measures. Since the crisis began in September 2009, the addition of austerity plans that inflicts Athens in the emergency exceeds the 169 billion euros. Some are new, others have already [...]
The Paris Bourse is expected to continue in the green on Monday, after finishing last week jumped 1.23%. The futures on the CAC are on the upside, an hour of opening, leaving an early planning session in positive territory.
Investor sentiment should be supported by information from the Italian newspaper La Stampa over [...]
The history of Greek debt, is a mess. Read reports from various economists, Greece hardly to the 360 billion euros of debt accumulated over the past 30 years (more than one and a half times what it produces in a year). "The debt has become extremely expensive and has been misused", asserts Jesus Castillo, [...]
Devices "inconsistent" in nuclear power plants, safety standards to "evolve without delay", a "super" level of protection to add. The Perfect Storm on nuclear policy, experts from the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) and the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), yet the heart of the French nucleocrats, have increased pressure on Thursday [...]