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The theme of housing has not been central to this campaign. However, Francois Hollande noted that the French were infuriated by the lack of available goods and soaring prices that ensued. In its program, the new president has presented a battery of measures in this regard. One of them caught the attention of the [...]
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 [...]
With the therapy of the 1990s and its financial health insolent, Sweden today does not hesitate to give lessons to its neighbors in the euro area. When Mariano Rajoy deals to Spain "the toughest budget of democracy", Bo Lundgren, former Secretary of State for Finance of Sweden, the man in the banking and financial [...]
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 [...]
The pretty little island of Zakynthos, south of the Adriatic, was affected, until recently, by a mysterious illness. Its population had 700 blind, nine times the average for developed countries. The Greek state pays a pension of 724 euros every two months for the visually impaired. Among the island declaring see drop there, a [...]
To guard against the resurgence of robberies and burglaries, petty traders are increasingly likely to opt for these cases of a new genus. Invented some twenty years in Sweden, one in 3000 has settled in France. Since banks and hypermarkets are equipped with powerful anti-theft devices to protect themselves, offenders are folded over the [...]
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 [...]
TO LOSE WEIGHT IS
1. Freeze the salaries of officials
With € 285 billion, salaries and pensions of the public are the first state budget. Although the "index points" (which is the reference to general increases) is frozen this year for the second consecutive year, the remuneration of officials will progress even when 2 [...]
The letter of resignation from Greg S mith, executive in charge of derivatives at Goldman Sachs, continues to make noise. Jamie Dimon, the boss of JP Morgan, held to calm the game "might as well be clear: no one should seek to take advantage of the supposed problems of a competitor. This is not [...]