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China's middle class has not yet sailed, but the billionaires, they have sailed. In Hainan Rendez-Vous, which in the great South Island has become the main lounge of the Chinese luxury – be they boats, jets or cars – yachts are gone this year as ravioli . For western manufacturers, China has become a [...]
An initial six-month assignment as junior sales was enough to persuade sedentary Jeremiah Trouillet he aspired to greater mobility. This is a computer accessories company that will give him two years later the opportunity. Initially hired as Sales Manager for Benelux large accounts, he was sent with his manager to open an office in [...]
The conservative party of Angela Merkel (CDU) just make a new turn to conquer the center-left electorate for the election scheduled next year. Once he was fiercely opposed for several years, the union of conservative Chancellor has finally decided to support the introduction of a minimum wage in Germany.
Holding that the adoption [...]
Better than many statistical aggregates, the slope made by the consumer credit in France reflects both the economic difficulties of the French economy and its most profound changes.
In recent months, the economy as a whole tricolor is thus ultimately not in recession. But it presented some major weaknesses, the consumer credit reflects [...]
Francois Hollande gives assurances to smaller salaries. RTL guest this Tuesday morning, the Socialist candidate for president confirmed his intention, if elected, to upgrade the minimum wage beyond the price evolution. "The minimum wage has not received any boost from at least three years," he said.
The current minimum wage is automatically adjusted [...]
60 Million consumers gained time. Thursday, the board of the National Consumer Institute (INC), publisher of the monthly consumer, gave up discussing the issue that angers: the outsourcing of the newspaper. Against all odds, the INC has approved accounts surplus in 2011. The institute has posted a profit of 178,000 euros last year, and 60 [...]
Issue public finances, France has been better than expected in 2011. The government managed to reduce the public deficit, that is to say the difference between its revenues and expenses, to 5.2% of gross domestic product (GDP), against a deficit of 7.1% in 2010. In raw numbers, however, the state has spent over the [...]
No need to go out for window shopping. French women spend an average of 5 hours per week on e-commerce sites. But only one in two women spend at least one order per month, according to a study conducted for eBay and Terrafemina.com, based on a CSA poll. Contrary to popular belief, housewives spend [...]
At the initiative of the head of the DGB, the all-powerful central labor Angela Merkel received Thursday, union officials from ten European countries, including François Chérèque, the secretary general of the CFDT. Before the unionists Italian, Spanish, Greek, came to speak of the harmful effects of excessive rigor in Europe … Chancellor pleaded the [...]
Nearly 14 million jobs worldwide will be created by 2015, including 189,000 in France, thanks to the "cloud" or cloud computing, according to a study commissioned by the software giant Microsoft in the Office IDC study. "Contrary to the myth that" cloud computing "contribute to destroying jobs, it will actually be a factor in [...]