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LE FIGARO (@ erenault1) – Barely presented the report Lescure is already challenged. Bercy has rejected the idea of ​​a tax on smartphones and CSA will not play the role of watchdog Hadopi. In such an environment, telecom operators will they still be called to the rescue?

Pierre LOUETTE. – I hope not. We are not the creation of new taxes a priori. The telecoms industry is already highly taxed like that.

Between the tax for France Television, the private copying … What percentage of this tax goes to the media?

A third specific telecom taxes go in the media. In the United States, for example, special tax on telecom is less than 1%, in France, we are 3% of our turnover. That's a lot. We feel that we are called to fund many things, including away from our core business. But telecoms have some specific difficulties today.

You were rather agree with Lescure report to tax the producers of smartphones?

Pierre Lescure has presented itself as. This report is a starting point for open discussion. All is not described. We found that the report recognized that digital could be associated with the financing of culture. Second, telecom operators are part of the financing of culture. that we do not disagree in principle. What we oppose is an explosion of contributions. Finally, we can say that the operators are the champions of the legal provision. Without operators, legal download offer would be greatly diminished. We also want the plight of operators is taken into account. The President of the Republic said during the campaign, and most recently in Auvergne: there will be no new tax on telecoms.

The government has recently decided to allocate frequencies to media Telecommunications from 2016. You really need these frequencies?

Telecom operators that are part of living with the FFT spectrum and we need it. But we want the issue of frequency is more predictable, programmed by the government. Here we feel that there is acceleration of history because there are funding needs.

The government hopes to gain between 2.5 and 3 billion euros from the sale of frequency?

Yes, it is that we already paid 3 to 4 billion in recent years buying frequency. When we bought, the government said that such an opportunity will not come quickly. This is how prices grimpét. But no sooner have we started using those purchased one wants to sell us more.

However, we need frequency, because last year we have seen an increase in data traffic by 67% for all telecom operators. It is also one of the paradoxes of the sector. It was an explosion of uses: the data increases, the use of mobile voice as there are tens of billions of SMS sent and at the same time … the price drop!

The arrival of Free has cut prices by 11%, according to ARCEP. The telecom sector he cashed the shock?

We do not dispute the figures ARCEP. With our observation, we found that the mobile telephone traffic increases by a further 13.5%. The appetite for telecom continues, it is also what will save the industry in the years to come.

Moreover, ARCEP indicates lower prices by 11.4% in 2012 and a decline in the volume of our sales by 4%. We calculate our side ed that prices have fallen by 20% in 18 months. Few industries face similar shocks. Especially since we have not given the investment to continue to fund future fixed networks with fiber and mobile networks of the future with 4G.

There was a decline in enrollment

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It is also an object of controversy. Last year, Free definitely a little recruited, Orange maintained its workforce and we had not yet seen the effects of departures plans announced by Bouygues and SFR. We see its effects in 2013. Orange will begin to not replace all departures. I can hardly imagine that there is stability in employment overall.

The year 2013 will be more difficult?

2013 will be the first full year after the arrival of Free Mobile. The effects of the arrival will be still felt in 2014 and 2015. We are an industry that has 128,000 direct jobs and 168,000 indirect jobs. There will be consequences for everyone, including call centers and distributors as well.

There is not Free in the FFT. Will he be back?

We are open. Free was a member, then it came out long ago. We are open for their return, but it is not close today.

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One hundred and sixty-five years after the abolition of eclavage, the Representative Council of Black Associations (Cran1) demand accounts Caisse des Depots (CDC). On the occasion of the Day of Commemoration of the Abolition of Slavery, the Cran announced Monday that it will file a writ of summons to the CDC and two of its subsidiaries. At issue: the sums paid by Haiti in exchange for its independence, the CDC has collected for years. "The CDC is complicit in a crime against humanity," and said Louis-Georges Tin, the president of Cran, accusing the state bank to have played "a significant role in slavery."

Campaign more comprehensive repair

The case dates back to the nineteenth century, when Haïti2 gained its independence against the troops of Napoleon Bonaparte (1804). About fifteen years later, France agreed to recognize the sovereignty of the island by drying a financial toll to compensate its settlers. From 1825 to 1946, Haiti is paying "amounts equivalent to $ 21 billion," according to Louis-Georges Tin, according to which "the ransom in Haiti precipitate a downward spiral of instability and poverty." CDC, public financial institution created under Napoleon, then in charge of collecting these benefits. The director of Cran therefore hope that this money be returned to the Haitian people. Counsel for the Board, Mr. Norbert Tricaud, intends to apply to the CDC "to abound by at least 10 million endowment fund to finance research" on slavery. Friday, it was returned to the Treasury, which collects money paid to the CDC after 30 years. "Legally, the amounts are recorded in the Deposit shall be refunded to the Treasury after 30 years," a spokesman insisted.

The action taken by the Representative Council of Black Associations is part of a more comprehensive approach to reparations, which could then be extended to private banks or sugar groups no faxing 1 hour payday loans. "If we do this assignment is to contribute to the debate," said the lawyer Norbert Tricaud, rejecting any desire for revenge. In January, Cran, created in 2005 to "fight against the discrimination faced by black people in France," had supported a descendant of slaves who wished to assign the state to court to obtain compensation for the damage caused by the control of a grandfather. A first in France. At present, however, the assignment has not been filed.  

An Ifop poll commissioned by the Cran says that 63% of people overseas departments are in favor of repairs, "whether moral or financial." "Without a political solution, we conduct the debate on the legal," said the president of Cran, although its position is not shared by all the descendants of slaves.

The "can not repair" according to Holland

François Hollande3 however implicitly imposed a fine of not receiving requests from Cran. In a commemorative speech on Friday, the president spoke of "the impossible repair." "The only choice, the most worthy, the largest, is the memory, alertness and transmission," he said. Jean-François Copé4, president of the UMP, said on RTL radio that it was "difficult to speak of material compensation" of slavery as "so many centuries have passed," but "in contrast, duty of memory is essential. "

"Any crime called repair, and when the repair is denied is that denies that there was truly crime. We need a comprehensive repair: moral, cultural, financial, symbolic, material, "responded Louis-Georges Tin.

 

A first step. Friday evening, the Cypriot Parliament adopted the first steps of Plan B, which must avoid the collapse of the economy of the island. If the tax on bank deposits, point of contention between Brussels and Nicosia, has not yet been adopted, the Parliament voted to restructure the banking system.

The two major banks and will turn into "bad banks", deposits and house the more than one hundred thousand euros and loans at risk. "Good bank" will be created in parallel, in the ocurrence National Bank of Cyprus, or be based deposits of less than one hundred thousand euros and non-risky loans. The second measure adopted for the freezing of funds. Requested by Brussels, it aims to prevent a massive flight of capital to the banks reopened Tuesday. The debates in Parliament are currently suspended until further notice.

Saturday afternoon, Nikos Anastasiades, the Cypriot president and the leaders of political parties in the country will travel to Brussels to negotiate with European partners. A council of the Eurogroup Meeting will be held late Sunday afternoon, in the presence of Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director. On the table, the thorny issue of the tax credit, unanimously rejected by MEPs on Tuesday. This time, it would be to cut 15% to 25% deposit of more than 100,000 euros. The political class remains divided on the subject, but will answer to the dilemma of saving or capital of the country by Monday.  

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From June, all employees working remotely Yahoo! will return to the office. This is a confidential internal email sent last Friday to all employees, who spread the news. It was released by angry employees on a specialized blog.

The decision of the CEO Marissa Mayer is well justified: "Some of the best information comes from making and schmoozing and cafeteria, meeting new people, impromptu team meetings. The speed and quality may be sacrificed when working at home. (…) It is essential that we all present at the office. "Setpoint does not appear for discussion: those who refuse to return to the office will lose their jobs.

"Those who expect the electrician at home"

Concerned employees working only at home, but also all those who had managed to make telecommuting a few days a week. Their exact number is not known, but everyone can feel concerned. The tone becomes guilt willingly turning a note of the email: "For those of us who may need to stay home to wait for the electrician, use your best judgment, in a spirit of collaboration." … …..

Marissa Mayer. Photo credits: HANDOUT / REUTERS

 

Biologists are angry. "On Monday, we take the afternoon strikes throughout, added to the gel transmissions leaf disease Banks to primary health insurance," says François Blanchecotte, President of the Union of Biologists (SDB). In Marseille, Patrick Lepreux, Bioprat union, began a hunger strike in protest against the reform. Biologists believe that the government, calling for a new lower rates of 80 million euros in 2013 goes too far. In 2012 already, the turnover of the industry fell 1.5% to $ 3.5 billion while the economy grew by 2.8% in volume.

New regulatory requirements

"For six years, the profession has dropped 700 million," says François Blanchecotte, exasperated that the government does not regain the agreement seemed to be reached with health insurance and provided a rate increase at least equal to the inflation from 2013 to 2015. "The adjustment variable, it is the employees," he warned, referring 8,000 jobs at risk over nearly 45,000 in the sector.

In addition there are new regulatory requirements. Biologists are concerned about the most demanding quality standards imposed on their tests (blood tests, urine …), from 2016, in the form of accreditation. "Reform creates factories analyzes," decried by some biologists. In any case it involves heavy investment and accelerates the concentration of laboratories.

Certification, which will improve the performance of laboratory tests, "will induce a surcharge of 3% of sales in the beginning, then 1.5% thereafter," said Philippe Charrier, Group Managing Director of Biology Labco. It will force small laboratories that perform are less than 100 patients per day and recorded a turnover of less than one million euros per year to regroup or sell.

Costs and higher unit cost in France

Accreditation and price reductions imposed on the analyzes involved measures implemented by successive governments to reduce healthcare costs. In the field of medical biology, flexibility is not negligible, if one compares the costs of the Hexagon in neighboring countries. According to a study released Tuesday Eurostaf will be at the conference of the magazine "Info Biologist" expenditures per capita medical tests in France are twice as high in Spain and 35% higher than in Germany.

The unit cost of actions is also higher in France, one of the few Western countries where laboratory tests are done in the city rather than in hospital. Examinations will cost 2-10 times more expensive than in Germany or Belgium. "The trouble is that in Germany, the results are issued after a very long time, often four days," puts an industry expert.

Reform legislation of medical biology is under consideration in the Senate. Unions fear it Stavros Dimas future conditions for the exercise of the profession. Yet this law favors laboratories pushing the deadline for accreditation 2020. And, at the request of biologists, it slows the takeover of financial investors now required for a laboratory to be majority owned by a biologist.

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LE FIGARO. – You return from China. What is the perception of our partners in France?

Pierre Moscovici. – I have noticed with my Chinese counterparts very close attention to our economic situation and, more generally, that of the euro area. During my interview with Mr. Li Keqiang, the future prime minister, I was the first Union Minister of Finance to meet, I heard a message of confidence, but also the expectation of concrete results of our actions. I invited them to fully appreciate the advantages of France and invest in our economy.

The government held a seminar on Thursday investments. How to stimulate while state coffers are empty?

The priority of the Head of State is the inversion of the curve of unemployment by the end of the year. Boost investment is at the heart of our strategy to achieve this. We have established a very favorable to private investment, stabilizing the euro area and by launching our pact for competitiveness. Housing, renovation thermal transport infrastructure and deployment of very high speed have been identified as our top priorities. It is now to direct savings to the French abundant future investments. As stated by the Prime Minister, public resources will be redeployed towards these goals. The roadmap is drawn and the seminar enabled the mobilization of the government in this direction.

The opposition accuses you of being vague on reducing public spending. What do you say?

We are committed to reducing public spending 56.3% of the national wealth in 2012 to 53.1% of GDP in 2017. The French expect that the public participates in the national effort to rehabilitate the country. This is voluntary, and there is no question of bias. The objective is clear, 60 billion by the end of the quinquennium. In this context, it is already in the budget, numerous examples, and each minister is in charge of preparing the necessary reforms.

The State is exemplary. Thus, in 2013, operating expenses will decline by 5%, including reducing communication expenses, reorganizing its major networks (sub-prefectures network abroad), controlling its payroll. A review of major investments is in progress. We will train and, by example, all stakeholders, including operators of the State, local authorities and social security administrations in the modernization of public action.

Our method is based on consultation and facing the user, is different from that of our forefathers. I estimate more efficient and fair. Cut with an ax, as did the previous government through RGPP creates blockages and resistances that are missing the mark.

The new contribution substitute tax at 75% for income in excess of a million Will it temporary or permanent? The government has sent mixed messages in recent days about it

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In exceptional circumstances, exceptional effort: this is the philosophy. The new contribution will take the spirit of the tax to 75%, while respecting the principles laid down by the Constitutional Council. We will present in the next few weeks, so that economic actors are set. I would add that the reasons for the tax exile are not due to such a device. Taxation is not everything: at the time of the tax shield at 50% right, yet there were 700 departures per year. And then to find the attractiveness French, we also restore our tax base, renegotiating our conventions. We're working on.

Expect the discussion in Spring with Brussels on the issue of growth and public finances to admit that France will not its commitment to reduce its deficit to 3% of GDP this year?

If I now believe that growth will not reach 0.8% as we expect, I would have said. Uncertainties are high, of course, but I note that some changes – the agreement on the U.S. budget, the prospects for growth in China, the solutions to the euro zone – are positive. Our actions to restore France's competitiveness and defend domestic consumption also support growth. Even though the beginning of the year is difficult, there is no question of giving any signal that today might suggest that our desire to reduce our deficit to 3% weakening. That said, it is also necessary that the Europeans are questioning how to get more growth, as the IMF and OECD invite us.

Were you a candidate for the presidency of the Eurogroup?

I've never been a candidate. My name was mentioned by some – which is an honor – but the task was entrusted to me is to be Minister of Economy and Finance of France, in a period of crisis, and this task is heavy. Incidentally, I read here and there that I could leave the government to take over the presidency of the Eurogroup, which is absolutely false. In my mind, the president of the institution must be a minister in office. What matters to me is that the ideas and designs of France on the future of the euro area are heard by the future president, particularly with regard to the banking union, it must continue the integrity of the euro area, which must be preserved, and growth policies, it is essential to carry. I told Jeroen Dijsselbloem.

You have caused confusion by stating that to overcome its difficulties, the automaker PSA should "go further". What do you mean by that?

Do not distort my words! PSA, which has sold more than 3 million cars in 2012, is in a difficult situation. To cope, the group has launched a strategic partnership with GM. He drives a socially painful, we worked to contain, and graduated from the State guarantee on its banking subsidiary. In this context, PSA has given assurances of its production in France, particularly in the Rennes plant and appointed Louis Gallois, the Commissioner of the investment to its supervisory board. To recover, PSA undoubtedly deepen its strategic thinking, but it's a private company and, as such, it is up to her to make choices as it deems advisable. I believe there is a place for PSA on the world market. With regard to the guarantee provided by the State for its banking subsidiary, I am quite confident about the progress of the discussions we have with Brussels.

CEO of EDF, Henri Proglio, subject to an investigation by the Financial Inspection on how contracts were obtained in China. Him hold your confidence?

It is not an investigation or questioning existing partnerships with China, which I saw during my visit to Beijing that they were of vital importance in the eyes of our stakeholders government. It is a mission control. As a state shareholder, our duty is to ensure that our strategic choices are preserved in the negotiations. This procedure is not more Mr. Proglio. The government's intention is not to jeopardize the future of a partnership with China that has lasted thirty years, or find a pretext to change the governance of the company. We just want to better understand the operation of the nuclear industry. This mission – we should have the results within three months – will help.

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Pierre Moscovici he prepares the ground already new listings difficult in the French car? The Minister of Economy and Finance has estimated Sunday evening, PSA Peugeot Citroën will "probably go further" measures taken in recent months to ensure its survival. Unspecified. Guest on the show "All political" France Inter-World-AFP, Pierre Moscovici simply stated that it was the leaders of the automotive group "to clarify the situation." And remember that PSA is a private company. But the statements of the Minister, elected Montbéliard in the Doubs, where PSA has its largest plant in France are not neutral.  

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Faced with the slowdown of its natural market – Europe – where new car sales fell by 9% in 2012, PSA has already taken several steps to recover: closure of its Aulnay site and removing 8,000 jobs cash advance loan. Meanwhile, he began a rapprochement with the U.S. General Motors, stabilized its financial subsidiary and changed its governance. This year, PSA must be addressed to improve the competitiveness of its French factories like Renault, hoping to quickly sign an agreement for this purpose with its unions.

2013 will be very difficult for both companies while the French market could again decline (-5%) this year.

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Regulated gas prices increase by 2.4% on January 1st. The information circulating over the past few days, she made official Monday morning by the Minister of Energy, Delphine Batho. Some 10 million households are affected by this measure.

This is the last time gas prices are reviewed on a quarterly basis. Now, the formula will apply every month, said Delphine Batho, with a reference period for the pricing not more than six months but eight. "The government wants not only to better smooth the variations of gas prices but also trivialize this episode turns for several years psychodrama one hand, GDF Suez demanding an increase in the other, governments hinder the maximum not to displease opinion, "says one industry expert.

Specifically, up 2.4% on January 1 comes after the State Council has declared illegal the increase of 2% on 1 October: GDF Suez, in accordance with the law which states that the cost of procurement of company are fully passed, would have had to get up more than 6%. Governments have been forced to make a tariff adjustment, it being understood that the application of the formula 1 January resulted in an increase of only 0.8%.

The rival GDF Suez disappointed

The government has taken other steps to try to soften the bill: one "emergency" is to extend social tariffs for gas and electricity to 830,000 more people. For the moment, some 360,000 customers benefit from these rates for gas.

Other ads fit in the longer term. The government wants to encourage particular GDF Suez to renegotiate supply contracts: they will be subject to an annual report of the Regulatory Commission (CRE). The company has always said she constantly renegotiating these contracts, while the regulator is already making audits. But the government is also clearly continue to weigh on the evolution of prices not only can decide every 1st July to revise the formula, but a safeguard clause provides that the government may freeze the application of the formula "Emergency" or soaring price of hydrocarbons. Accuracy of size: all this device must still be a statutory instrument. Possible improvements are perfectly feasible.

The National Association of energy retail operators (anode), which includes rival GDF Suez Monday showed his disappointment: "No solution has been found to effectively protect the purchasing power of consumers. The only remedy is to increase competition, or there is not a word about it, says Fabien Choné, president of the anode. More than 50% of the French do not know that there are offers up to 15% cheaper than the regulated tariffs. "

Anode will meet Friday and should make the decision to file an appeal with the European Commission. It stigmatizes a longstanding French energy market very locked.

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David Cameron is preparing to go into battle, Thursday 22 and Friday 23 November in Brussels for a summit of all the dangers on the EU budget. British Prime Minister may disturb discussions with its requirements spending freeze over the period 2014-2020. A position in which it is already door overhang its base eurosceptic, calling it a reduction – position supported by the majority of the British. David Cameron has tried in recent days to build bridges with other European capitals, without much success.

The insoluble problem of the British government is to find common ground with the bloc while controlling internal opinion more spirited in Europe. The crisis gives grist to the eurosceptics who are happy to approach the opportunity of a "Brexit", an output of the United Kingdom Union.  

A referendum is "inevitable"

According to a survey published Sunday The Observer, 56% of Britons would vote for out of the EU if a referendum were held, only 30% want to stay no fax cash loans. "The UK stands close to the exit door, closer than it has ever been for forty years," says Kirsty Hughes, a specialist in Europe the organization Index on Censorship.

The former commissioner in Brussels, Peter Mandelson, said "inevitable" a referendum. Such consultation could be held after the parliamentary elections of 2015, around 2017. In the meantime, the question will poison British politics and interfere, because of this critical issue, all European negotiations.

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