Athens: the message of the Communists. Five days of Greek elections of 6 May, several thousand people (18,000 according to police), especially communists showed around Athens and Thessaloniki, the second largest city, struck by a particularly harsh austerity policy. This statutory holiday, traditionally celebrated as the "day of general strike" in the private and [...]
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.
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Here is a proposed measure for the moment lip by the Socialist Party, but if implemented, would affect 17 million households: the hardening of the taxation of life insurance. It is very far from the symbol, unlike the 75% tax only for 3000 households whose household income exceeds one million per year, as the [...]
An agreement, signed last week between management and the Air France pilots' union (SNPL), reduces the scope of guaranteed service in the air, reveals Liberation. Transposition of the 2008 Act applicable to the SNCF, the text of UMP Eric Diard plans to compel the workers of the airline to declare 48 hours in advance. [...]
The Docks, iconic building, around which the operation Marseille Euroméditerranée rehabilitation started, will lead a new revolution. JPMorgan Asset Management, which holds 87%, and the promoter Constructa in charge of the project, will open the building, nearly 400 meters long and seven stories to the outside. He was so far centered on itself: an [...]
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 [...]
More than three hundred protesters gathered Friday outside the headquarters of France-Soir, avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris, when the works examined the abandonment of the paper and the daily passage of the first all-digital in January. This shift will be the first made by the editor of a newspaper of general information.
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After five consecutive gains, Wall Street switches to red. On Monday, the Dow finished the session on a drop of 0.94% to 11,401.01 points, the Nasdaq drops 0.36% to 2612.83 points while the S & P 500 was down 0.98% to 1204.09 points.
Operators are showing more and more skeptical about the ability [...]
Lefigaro.fr – Can we say that Kweku Adoboli is "the new Kerviel"?
Frederic Boulier – It is true that there are many similarities with the Kerviel affair. The amounts are lost in the same order of magnitude. Jerome Kerviel lost 4.9 billion euros at Societe Generale, but before the "unwinding" of his positions, [...]