Archive for the ‘people’ Category

How do other countries compensate their unemployed

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

  A wind of change blowing through all unemployment compensation systems in Europe, despite their great diversity. And the phenomenon does not date from the last crisis. "Since the 1990s, virtually all governments have tightened at some point or other conditions of compensation for the unemployed, partly for ...

Facebook opens its VIP

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

  Facebook has learned from the case "Salman Rushdie". In November 2011, the social network profile was deleted by the author of The Satanic Verses, doubting the real identity of its author. Then when Facebook found, copy of passport in support, that this was the novelist, the start-up asked him ...

Working time: Unions feel shorted

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

  Hocus-pocus, coup, betrayal ... and Socialist Trade Unions slam in chorus the vote "on the sly," Jan. 31 in the Assembly, a provision that amends the labor law. Section 40 of the bill Warsmann simplification of the law provides that "the establishment of a distribution of hours over a ...

The UFC-Que Choisir attack video game publishers

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Practices "ineligible" for video game publishers exasperated UFC-Que Choisir. Challenged by the players 'angry', the association wants to restore order in an area hit by a series of "failures". The UFC-Que Choisir, which launched a call for evidence and collected 560 responses identified three grievances. The main key ...

Monday, November 28th, 2011

For now, negotiations take place exclusively between Paris and Berlin. But they lead to an agreement that will cover all of Europe or at least throughout the euro area. France and Germany have intensified their discussions the last few hours to strengthen the stability pact. The objective is to ...

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

"Convergence is not something spontaneous," said Nicolas Sarkozy after the mini-summit which gathered on Thursday in Strasbourg, Germany, France and Italy, the three largest economies the euro area. On the agenda: the responses of Europe deal with the debt crisis against a background of struggle between Paris and Berlin ...

Friday, November 18th, 2011

In recent months, investors demand from Italy, Spain or even France's interests always higher. The sign of the distrust of markets: the rate reflects the estimated risk by banks. Thus, the difference between the interest rate French and German, which serves as a reference, broke records this historic week, ...

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

Facebook is a rounded back face to U.S. authorities. According to reports the Wall Street Journal, the social network is about to conclude an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, FTC, to guide its privacy practices. At the end of the agreement, Facebook will undertake not to make any ...

Friday, November 11th, 2011

The effect of the crisis was immediate for the television market and particularly for TF1. The first French commercial channel just announced for the first nine months of the year, a decline of 1.6% of its advertising revenue to 1.054 billion euros. The decline is even more pronounced for ...

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Wall Street will rise unlikely this Tuesday from his fall yesterday. At the opening, the Dow posted a loss of 2.18%% to 11,691.19 points. For their part, the Nasdaq and S & P 500 lag decreases of 2.63% to 2613.77 points and 2.61% to 1220.34 points. As in Asia ...