Archive for the ‘world’ Category

Business aviation is hoping for a relaunch late 2012

Monday, May 14th, 2012

  When will the end of the tunnel? Unlike commercial aviation, business aviation is still living through difficult times. As evidenced by the recent collapse of American Hawker Beechcraft and statistics released Friday by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association. In the first quarter, deliveries of jets were down 4.7% (122 ...

The Netherlands, in crisis, vote rigor

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

  From our special correspondent in Amsterdam The letter from The Hague to Brussels is part-time. Jan Kees de Jager, the Minister of Finance of the Government resigned, succeeded in drafting an austerity plan before the deadline of April 30. While rating agencies threatened to degrade ...

The boss of the departure of Costa Cruises

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

  Three and a half months after the sinking of the Concordia, the CEO of Costa Crociere, Pier Luigi Foschi, leaves office. Wrongly or rightly, his departure, announced on 1 July, is inevitably interpreted as a direct consequence of the crisis in the company since the tragedy of the ship ...

Halve the number of checks by 2017

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

  At the global revolution of means of payment (mobile, Internet, contactless transactions ...), checks and cash keep a good place in French portfolios. They are references to daily transactions. 18.3% of payments (excluding cash) have been settled by checks in 2010, for an average of 555 euros. For Pauget ...

Organize the vote costs 1 euro per voter

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

  Zero hour has come to town hall in France, while just begun the first round of the presidential election. The first act of a series four major election days, organized under two months. For municipal governments, the bill for the organization of these exceptional weekend will be more or ...

Customers Free forgive "errors of youth"

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

  Free Mobile customers retain a large majority, confident in their new operator. This is what spring launched a call for evidence on lefigaro.fr, which raised last week over 500 comments. Two major trends. There are those for which the passage went smoothly and that no difficulty to ...

How markets react to the presidential

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

  A priori, the CAC 40 prefers the left. History shows that when the Socialists were in power, the index climbed an average of 5.9% per year, while a majority right does increase by only 2.12%. However, according to a study conducted in 2010 by researcher David Le Bris, the ...

Employed parents pampered

Monday, March 19th, 2012

  The balance between work and private life has become a classic of HR services. Employees are demanding. And companies, who treat their "employer brand", communicate widely on their "best practices" . "This subject is absent from the presidential campaign," is surprised Jerome Ballarin, president and founder in 2008 ...

Ikea: dismissed for failing spy colleagues

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

  "A real harassment." This is the memory that keeps this former head of the radius of its path to Ikea Tourville la Rivière, in Seine-Maritime. Asked by Europe 1 and RTL, the young woman laid off today told how his superiors required him to "record all the actions" of ...

World Bank: the end of the Chinese model?

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

  China will have to change its business model. In a report released Monday in Beijing, entitled "China 2030: building a society with high incomes, modern, harmonious and creative", the World Bank predicted that the 10% annual growth in recent years will halve over the past twenty next. ...