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They hoped to collect tens of thousands of people as last year. Activists, supervised by the Nuclear Exit Network, organized a human chain Saturday in 18 different points of Paris. Their goal: to seek the judgment of this energy in France, two years after the Fukushima disaster. According to organizers, there were more than 20,000 participants.  

According to the spokesman for Nuclear Phaseout, Pierric Duflos, protesters surrounded a series of "power centers" that promote nuclear energy, as the National Assembly and the Senate, several ministries, including Defense and Ecology, the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN), the seats of EDF and Areva in the neighborhood of Defense, as well as several banks, including BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole who finance power projects .

"This chain yellow sun sent a message of solidarity with the Japanese people" and "indignation message to policy makers that we impose a deadly behalf of narrow interests and economic nationalism," according to a statement released by the network.

Not far from the National Assembly, along the Seine. Photo credits:

After a bad year in 2011, the number of accidents has decreased in 2012. And this trend continues in 2013, according to the assessments of road safety, with less than 9% of fatalities and 12% of injuries in January.

These figures hope left lower auto insurance rates this year, but it is not. The price index for private insurance, published by the comparator Assurland shows a 2.1% increase in the cost of insurance over the last twelve months. Yet the comparison provided in December 2013 contained up only 1%, driven by competition. He noted then increases by 0.9% in 2012 to Maaf, 1.5% for Axa, 2% Maif and Macdf, Generali 3% and 4% for Swiss Life.

Insurers defend themselves

The number of accidents is not the only factor to play on the evolution of premiums, insurers argue. They evoke the rising cost of repairs made more complex by the invasion of electronics in cars. Victim compensation costs also more expensive insurance: accidents are fewer, but more serious, and therefore the duration of care is growing. Axa, there was an increase in 2012 the average cost of accidents by 2% damage and 5% for bodily injury, a trend already observed in 2011.

Some legal systems also weigh in the balance. Insurers must finance since January 1, 2013 revaluation of pensions paid to victims of road accidents, although it is far from the Guarantee Fund compulsory insurance of damage (FGAO) who took care. Accordingly, Axa evoked a possible late 2012 premium increases from 1.2 to 1.3%. Another measure that could weigh: the equalization of rates between men and women, decided by Court of Justice of the European Union last December. It could lead in 2013 to a leveling up of premium automobiles women.

Another possible explanation although they deny it, with the car insurance offset what they lose elsewhere. The insurance sector in 2012 recorded a turnover down 4%. Life insurance in particular has suffered with withdrawals over the payments of 3.4 billion euros. As auto insurance is mandatory, insurers may be tempted to improve their margins on this side.

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Monitoring of greenhouse tomatoes by computer processing fields by GPS guidance, sale of wheat on the futures market … By demonstrating their commitment to land blows of high-tech 2000s farmers have larger- something to do with those of the 1960s. "This reflects the incredible speed with which the world agricultural captures the latest innovations," said Martine Dégremont, director of the International Exhibition of Agricultural Machinery (Sima) will open its doors from February 24 to 28 at Exhibition Paris-Nord Villepinte. The integration of more advanced ICT (information and communication) will be one of the trends of the 75th World suppliers of agriculture and livestock, involving no less than 1350 exhibitors .

Proof of modernity often ignored by the public, digital tablets are preparing to invest cabs tractors. This is particularly the case with the UT App software developed by the manufacturer Claas and awarded a gold medal by the jury issued Sima Innovation Awards 2013. Easily downloadable on an iPad (or Android tablet), it allows the farmer to visualize, control and store the functions and settings of all its machinery: tractors, combine harvesters, mounted implements ( seeders, sprayers …) but also as a stationary biogas plant. A revolution!

Productivity gains

At the head of a farm of 600 hectares Griselles (Loiret), Loïc Delion sees a "source of saving time, a way to make work easier and improve the comfort of life." And include "the ability to integrate information directly collected on a plot without waiting to be at his computer" or "the ability to make instant adjustments to a machine and store in direct consultation with the site builder. " The livestock sector is not left behind: ten years after the arrival of the first milking robots, automated distribution of food animals is also his first with two award-winning systems. Many inventions that will generate productivity gains.

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Black humor, subliminal messages or personal distress … The motives of the agent job center who has posted twelve fictitious offers questionable content remain to be clarified. Time for a weekend, a few imaginary ads have been around the web and fueled the controversy.

Among the ads posted on the official website of the institution of employment in France, the counselor was offered a job shadow "Wizard / mage can create a job, transforming a branch of birch in job various branches, to show the gap between the reality of supply and demand of employment as an illusion, put your skills to job center, and add: Beginner accepted, namely snakes swallow is 1 + , stamp 1 to 100,000 euros. "  

Other examples: "Seeking consultant intelligence able to solve the following proposition: there is no solution, but problems" or offers "Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, magnetizer … for several vacancies within Pôle Emploi, to treat its employees. Serious diseases. Applications of charlatans and jokers will not study. Type and nature of the contract: CDD two months. "

But humor slips frankly dubious when, just days after the immolation of an unemployed at the end of law to an agency job center in Nantes, post an ad offers a "fire safety officer to intervene on departures fire, prevent the risk of fire. Seat reserved for non-smokers "…

On the Web, the reaction was immediate. On twitter, many users have expressed their incomprehension.  

If you also want to laugh, consult the website of the Pôle Emploi offers Aubigny-sur-Nere low interest rate personal loans… # PôleEmploi twitter.com / ElineSideOut / s

. – ElineSideOut (@ ElineSideOut) February 17, 2013

In short, the employment center of Aubigny-sur-Nere, fun …

– Guy Birenbaum (@ guybirenbaum) February 17, 2013

. @ @ Johnquenelle guybirenbaum @ mistyelodie Yen more! is the internal dispute, Or trollage external password filters?

– Thelonius Monk (@ Monde_de_Droite) February 17, 2013

Counselor far appreciated

But the site has not been the target of a hacker, the ads have been posted by a counselor. A spokeswoman explained that "all counselors are authorized to publish job offers received. All counselors validate their content "without further verification. The latter emphasizes that it is "a first for the institution" which released last year no less than 3 million offers on its site.

Thus, misunderstanding dominates the headquarters of the Institution of employment in France. The spokesman emphasizes that the perpetrator "has long worked for the small agency Cher and is appreciated both by his colleagues as job seekers." Another counselor has taken his post pending clarification of the motives of the agent, and the decision of the institution.

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This is not a scoop but a confirmation that can wring the neck of a lot of ideas. According to a study conducted by INSEE on behalf of the CGPME, the net monthly salary in full-time equivalent of a corporate executive with less than 20 employees amounted on average in 2010 to 4248.33 euros is 50,980 euros per year. Pay more or less equivalent to that of a senior and very far from the patterns of the CAC 40. For the record, there are 2.5 million businesses with fewer than 20 employees in France who concentrate 66% of the workforce. And 94% of businesses are small businesses, employing less than 10 employees.

The salary of the head increases with the size of the company but never reach stratospheric heights. And he climbed to 77,270 euros for those whose numbers are between 20 and 50 people and barely exceeded 107,000 euros for more than 50 employees. All sizes and in all sectors, the average annual net earnings of a pattern of SMEs stood thus 65,200 euros, up 7.1% year on year. An average of 5433.33 per month. All sizes and in all sectors, CGPME estimated in 2010 to 138,760 the number of business leaders in France, down 11.4% compared to 2009 due to the high number of failures recorded this year.

Not surprisingly, the financial intermediation sector is where the remuneration of CEOs was highest (111,130 euros in 2010, an increase of 5.6% in one year all sizes combined).

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The government would undertake a new pension reform faster than expected. According to the World, this major reform could take place in 2013. It is not finally postponed to 2014, as previously announced by the Government. "We thought postpone until next year, but we will be forced to accelerate our schedule," says a source of daily Matignon. "It would be difficult not to give signs before the conference social July." Questioned on this Friday, the Prime Minister simply stated that it was the origin of the article in Le Monde, without formally refute this calendar. "The government, in time, take full responsibility," it is simply to explain.  

Advancing the implementation of this reform, the government hopes to reassure including Brussels, France's European partners and markets, while growth proves weaker than expected. According to the European Commission, France should therefore miss its target of reducing the public deficit to 3% of GDP in 2013.

Retirees made contributions

To carry out the reform, the government should build on ongoing negotiations between the social partners, which aims to save the pension complementary frameworks (Agirc) and employees (Arco) business card. There is also emergency financial reserves will be exhausted in effect the next 5 to 7 years. On this issue, the social partners are moving towards indexation partial and temporary retirement pensions, which could inspire the government in its reform of the general scheme. The idea of ​​management, which does not seem to alienate unions would cease to adjust annually the level of pensions exactly the amount of inflation. For several years, a point differential could be accepted.

"If the unions agree to supplementary pensions, we are tempted to inspire us," says an adviser to the World. In September, the Court of Auditors had criticized in his annual report, the tax benefits enjoyed by retirees, and found their standard of living higher than 15% of assets. The government might be all the more tempted to make that contribution assets were most requested by Woerth reform. To get the pill for retirees, "consideration" could be granted in respect of the financing of addiction, anxiety for this age group. The government should juggle the two reforms in 2013.

Called the "unexpected Journal" on RTL, Alain Afflelou, head of the eponymous group of glasses and hearing aids is justified on Thursday announced his departure for London. While tax exile Gérard Depardieu for Néchin looks like a national tragedy, the leader has denied any tax incentive in its approach to cross the Channel. "My father taught me that we must go where the work is and not wait for the work to come to us (…), he explained. My English shareholder since June, Lion Capital, asked me to go and develop Northern Europe where we are completely absent, "he added, stressing the importance of finding new sources of growth to compensate for its traditional markets, now weakened (France, Morocco, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal …)

The leader of 1200 outlets hopes materialize contacts "fairly advanced" with foreign channels and strengthen its distribution network. To cut the grass under the feet of any detractors, he also points out that his departure 20 years ago, in Switzerland, in the same spirit as his exile in London, had resulted in "the creation of many jobs and taxes paid in France. "

"Taxation confiscatory"

On his arrival in London, he will have the status of "non-domiciled", which will certainly meet in Britain tax labor income, but do not exempt in France the wealth tax on real property and income of French origin flexcheck cash advance. "I'm not trying to juggle. I always paid my taxes in France, even when I was in Switzerland. I will pay in England that I have to pay, and in France that I have to pay. In any case I will not leave my nationality for not paying taxes "based Alain Afflelou, stating that his London exile will not last more than three years.

Ranked 204th fortune by the French magazine Challenges, however, the contractor did not mince words about taxation. "The system in France is extremely unfavorable for all people undertaking. From now on, people who are in the bracket income tax at 75% can exceed 90% taxation so yes we can talk about confiscatory taxation. "

According to him, the entrepreneurs in France are also the target of a real "trench warfare": "You have to stop saying that successful people are thieves, thugs, and dishonest people. There is not that artists have the right to be considered: the people who work and do other work, we need, "he said about the recent exile of Gérard Depardieu and the controversy it has generated.

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Chose promise, chose due. Parliament approved Friday, late afternoon, the 2013 budget, called "Financial Stability Law" and defended by Mario Monti. Following this vote, the Chairman of the Board was present, as promised, his resignation to Italian President Giorgio Napolinato. Supported by its European counterparts and markets, which pushed him to his candidacy, he lost Professore mid-December the support of the PDL party of Silvio Berlusconi, which triggered early parliamentary elections, scheduled for 24 February.

Despite attacks Sivlio Berlusconi, Mario Monti leaves the Palazzo Chigi head high. The budget adopted by the House is "consistent with the objectives in the medium and long term developed with Brussels predict a return to a balanced budget by the end of 2013," says Marco Cauli, economist, member of the Democratic Party (left).

The Finance Act 2013 contains many innovative mechanisms such as the introduction of a Tobin tax "French", this new tax on financial transactions. Property taxes are also changing. From next year, those taken from private owners depend entirely on Commons. Is that they rely on the responsibility for the increase or not, on the model of "local property tax" British. However, the state will retain the upper hand in business property taxes.

Taxes

Controversial, the IMU, property taxes created this year, reported 23 billion euros, or nine billion more than expected. It replaced another property tax, ICI, which was returned 14 billion euros in state coffers before Silvio Berlusconi not abolished in 2008 payday loans in 1 hour. The abolition of the IMU is one of the subjects of the election campaign, Berlusconi demanding its withdrawal.

Another clarification: the construction of the TGV Lyon-Turin will be assured of funding Italian two billion euros over ten years, according to the treaty signed last January by France and Italy. Uncertainties weighed far the Italian financial commitment.

For Professor Roberto Erotti, who teaches economics at the Faculty Milan Bocconi budget savings for 2013, less than 10 billion euros. remain "limited." Nothing to do with the austerity measures imposed 63 billion in December 2011 to address public accounts in disarray. "The majority of sacrifices in 2012 came from a tax increase that reached 3% to 4% of GDP," he recalls. "Little has been done to reduce public spending then it would make drastic cuts of around 60 billion euros," he said. Among the budget cuts in the budget, it is reduced allocations to local authorities (€ 1 billion) and health (1.5 billion) and a budget cap universities.

The legislature pulling its end, the government could not oppose amendments 600 micro-constituting as additional expenditure for purely electoral. What makes the Sole 24 Ore said that "opportunity was lost" of rigor.

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Going through a difficult release. This will force him to continue his transfer to forced march. According to our information, the newspaper directed by Nicolas Demorand should finish the year slightly in the red, despite a positive operating income of one million euros against 2.5 million in 2010 and 2011.

One of its major shareholders, Bruno Ledoux, also owns the building that houses the newspaper near the Place de la Republique in Paris, will pay € 1.5 million well before December 31, which will allow as to continue deleveraging.

In January, capital structure Liberation will evolve. The main shareholder should hold Édouard de Rothschild equally with Bruno Ledoux 52% of the holding company Refoundation, alongside the heirs of the Italian Carlo Caracciolo.

Decline in paid circulation

Since last summer, Liberation suffers from a drop of 20% of its newsstand sales, which account for 30-40% of its paid circulation after the heyday of the presidential campaign – in May, the title peaked 65,000 of newsstand sales. In October, they dropped to 41,500 for a paid circulation in France of 115,200 copies, according to OJD. But accumulated since January, sales are expected to complete the balance. The erosion of the diffusion requires us to find new sources of revenue. Thursday, Nicolas and Philippe Nicolas Demorand, Co-Chairs of the Board, explained their strategy to 230 employees worried us fast cash.

The cap is placed on the organization of events and conferences. The newspaper, which generates 60 million turnover in 23 program in 2013, against four in 2011 and six in 2012. "Our goal is to triple our turnover in this business," says Philippe Nicolas.

Accelerate the migration to digital

The goal is to accelerate the migration of readers to digital. The website, which totaled 3.1 million unique visitors in October, according Médiamétrie, will open in June a new formula that will begin the transition from "freemium" (free and paid content which coexist) the "paywall" (subscription becomes required from a certain amount of items consulted free access). At the same time, release to launch an electronic edition that will include enhanced ten more pages compared to the paper version.

Developing subscriptions, Nicolas hope Demorand install a more stable business model. Objective: To reach at least 46,000 subscribers in 2013, against 40,000 (including 11,000 digital) today.

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