Twenty-five phone calls, and the authority of a so-called police commander in the Financial Guard, have nearly costly to Areva. A spokesman for global nuclear leadership confirmed on Wednesday that the figaro.fr of its subsidiaries has been referred by an attempted scam, which has been thwarted, without giving further details. RTL radio said that the event took place last Thursday, January 14.
The usurper who called himself Louis Bouvard, an unknown name to the financial police, said acting on the orders of a magistrate, to dismantle an international network of fraud to the credit card, the radio said.A payment of an amount of 982,000 euros to Hong Kong would have been asked, then realized, before being interrupted in extremis by the security services of Areva.
A judicial inquiry was opened
The Paris prosecutors opened a criminal investigation yesterday, Tuesday, about the attempted fraud, which could have been brought by an international syndicate. He told the inquiry to the Brigade of fraud means payments of the prefecture of Paris.
The case is therefore of no consequence to Areva. But it is a concern more for Anne Lauvergeon, which currently crosses the iron in the media with EDF, to ensure the place of his group in the French team of nuclear.The other question must be arbitrated on Wednesday by Prime Minister Francois Fillon, who planned to gather around him the leaders of the two partner groups, but still competing.
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Declining tax revenues and rising costs: the state budget did not end in 2009, suffering from this terrible effect scissors. The budget deficit widened to 143.3 billion euros in November 30, cons -66.6 billion a year earlier, said the Budget Ministry on Tuesday.
The difference, over one year amounted to 76.8 billion euros. He "explained mainly by the impact of economic conditions on changes in revenue and up to 34 billion euros by the end measures of recovery plan," says the ministry said in a statement.
In late November, total expenditure amounted to 329.7 billion euros, 13.9 billion more than a year ago. A difference can be explained by the cost recovery plan, advance Bercy."Out Recovery Plan expenditure (general budget and levies on revenues) increased by 850 million euros a year to another," says he.
In late 2009 the fiscal deficit, however, register under the 140 billion euros, one billion less than originally planned, said the Budget Ministry. This table to limit the deficit on tax revenue in December "slightly less degraded" and on "buoyant spending.
Direct consequence of this widening deficit, government debt under the Maastricht should represent 77.9% of GDP at end 2009 and 84% of GDP in 2010. To fill this gap, the state will borrow this year to market a record $ 188 billion.
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The French manage to reach a critical size in the Light Armored? It is hoped that the group Panhard attempting a rapprochement with the public Nexter (formerly Giat). The building is well underway in Europe, led by the Anglo-Saxons.
To the north, Britain's BAE Systems has steadily increased, including the purchase of Swedish Hagglunds, and now shows 7 billion euros of turnover. To the south, the U.S. General Dynamics has swooped on the Spanish Santa Barbara. The French Nexter and Panhard, which respectively carry a turnover of 579 million euros and hundreds of millions, have emerged as Tom Thumb. A rapprochement with Renault Trucks Defense, a subsidiary of Volvo Trucks, has also been mentioned.
Hence the idea of boss Panhard, Christian Mons, initiating a rapprochement with Next.Especially since the group's main shareholder, with 75% of the capital, George Cohen, had once considered separate from that asset. Having no desire to become a sub-subsidiary of a foreign group, Panhard therefore seeks to grow, with a preference for a Franco-French solution. Interviews with representatives of the Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) – who presides over the future of Nexter – have already been held and the proposal would have received a rather favorable.
Crossing several pitfalls
Panhard side, do not hesitate to think big. The company already imagine that after having bought Nexter it could begin negotiations with its German competitors Rheinmetall and KMW, also looking for external growth operations to reach a critical size.Such discussions would kick off an equivalent of one armored EADS.
Before that happened, it remains to Panhard to cross several hurdles. Only Nexter Armored Division and its flagship, the Leclerc tanks, interest Panhard. It performs alone 450 million euros of turnover. The group led by Christian Mons no secret to be much less inclined to acquire the activities of artillery and information systems and command.
Although it is still too early for a pattern emerges, buying only part of Nexter or the total surrender before a non-strategic assets, then he should know how to organize a form of privatization of the former Giat. Finally, if Thales does not seem to be a candidate for a merger with Nexter, Renault Trucks Defense had already expressed interest Nexter in 2008.The subsidiary of Swedish group had also extended a hand to Panhard, who was then preferred to decline the proposal.
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"Serenity insured for your Christmas shopping: place an order before 12:30 pm December 22 with fast delivery or before 16:30 December 23 with the Lightning shipping, and Amazon.fr you book in time for Christmas in metropolitan France and Monaco!". In his mail, Amazon reassuring. However, a strike after the tip of his nose in the only warehouse logistics France, in Saran, Loiret. On site, 40 employees on the 1200 account that the site have ceased trading on Tuesday's call to denounce FO difficult working conditions and wages too low.
The trigger was the decision of management to Amazon to unilaterally raise salaries by 1.5%. "We wanted a dialogue and we have not been heeded. This increase represents an increase of 18 to 20 euros net per month.It is insufficient to increase purchasing power, "complains Sebastian Boissonnet, Steward FW from Amazon. The union does not fail to recall that in the third quarter, the site of online sales has earned a 68% growth in net income. Its operating profit rose 62% to 251 million dollars for a turnover up 28% to 5.45 billion dollars.
Recognizing this, the strikers demanded a general increase of 4.8%, a 13th month for employees, supervisors and managers, meal vouchers supported 60% by the company, and finally a budget increase of Works for social works.
No disturbances
To listen to the strikers themselves, the service should not be disturbed. The company has in fact appeals to a reinforcement of 600 to 700 to ensure the temporary work.Tuesday, Amazon reminded the AFP's requirements: "Our customers are our priority, we continue to do our best to ensure the quality of the experience of shopping on Amazon is optimal, and this obviously includes the fact to be delivered in time for Christmas. " Contacted for comment on Wednesday wage demands, the U.S. did not wish to speak.
Pressure
For the union, this strike will probably not reopen discussions but it should attract attention on the working conditions of employees. According to FP, these are deplorable and become even more in October, early Christmas shopping. "We always stores addition, discharge huge pallets without security. When one points out, we answered 'done with'.On 7 hours of work, we have only 23 minutes break, so we ask for 10 more minutes, "says Sebastian Boissonnet.
The pressure is also very hierarchical palpable. Hence the low mobilization. "There are services management at the plant. Since Tuesday, the manager came to us saying 'think about what you do'. "
For now, the union discussed the action in motion. This is the first strike from Amazon. A baptism that the company could have done at this time of celebration. Especially since the group table, during this period, a boom in sales of between 21% and 36% compared to fourth quarter 2008.
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Sequences "emotion" and "crop" this Friday at the close of the 49th congress of the CGT in Nantes. Bernard Thibault, exhausted by a week of sometimes heated debates and visibly excited to have been renewed for the fourth time at the head of the CGT, first paid tribute to "six comrades" who leave the executive confederal "after rendered such services. " Among them, two leading figures of this decade: Maryse Dumas, his right arm on employment issues, and Jean-Christophe Le Duigou, the "Mr. Economy and Pensions" of the plant.
Bernard Thibault, who had gathered yesterday on behalf of 88.4% of the votes for the election of the Executive Committee, then cropped activists who have criticized his lack of involvement on the ground and its rapprochement with the CFDT. Particularly highlighting the vote by 77.5% of the delegates of the progress report of the past three years."It's a very honorable to score a direction supposedly cut off from its base," he joked, saying in passing that Nicolas Sarkozy would like to receive the same level of approval of French policy that led to the Elysee.
And the secretary general of the CGT then push the nail against those who disrupted the debate sometimes during the week and gave a divided image of the plant. "It can not be the CGT opposition and majority, he hammered the applause of the audience. There is no line of management, because management implements the guidelines validated by the Congress. "And this is not the great majority of the 1 000 delegates of the 49th Congress which contradict the resolutions of the document guidance for the next three years that received between 73 and 86% of the votes.The CGT knows where it goes, he still drummed, while specifying that the central union will not "attractive if it gives the image that his first battle is internal.
"The Internationale" raised fist
Wishing a CGT "closer, more united and effective," Bernard Thibault has drawn the roadmap for the coming months. "Our priority is the transformation of society," he said. Its power plant will therefore go on retreats launched by Nicolas Sarkozy. "The future of pensions will be the marker for the determination of employee resistance", he warned the head of state. The CGT also ensure that employers does not set wages and employment."The increase in salaries is the key to ending the crisis," he said.
The leader of the CGT has finally made an appointment to his "comrades" for two mobilizations to come: a euromanifestation March 24 to get a boost in employment at European level and a national campaign to defend public services in stride. And said, for those who doubt that the CGT would not wait the end of March "for organiserd'autres appointments and inter-national".
The message is clear: the CGT has not changed, it is always with those who struggle.And the Internationale, sung to finish his fist raised by the Secretary General and the thousands of delegates – admittedly preceded La Marseillaise but sung with more gusto – aimed to demonstrate.
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It will not take long to react to France! On Wednesday, Britain announced that its 2009 bonus traders would be taxed at 50% for amounts exceeding 25 000 pounds, which should generate approximately 600 million euros to the state. From Thursday, the Elysee confirmed the intention of France to do likewise.
The purpose of government is very clear: to encourage banks to strengthen their equity rather than pay generous bonuses, while they were supported or bailed out with public money during the crisis.
The principle, an act by the French government, would impose "exceptional" banks on the amount of premiums distributed in 2010 under the year 2009. The rate used by France could be slightly lower than Great Britain, "because France pay more tax," said a government source.The amount at which the establishment will be taxed, it would be the "magnitude" of amounts retained by Great Britain.
Towards a Global Compact?
This Thursday, the banks do not wish to comment on the news. One speaker merely highlight the lack of understanding of the profession in this way then that "French banks are the only way to comply with binding rules of the G20 and they reported 2 billion to the state this year.
The idea running through the heads of the French for several months now: August 25 last, while Nicolas Sarkozy had called all the bankers at the Elysee, he had already discussed "the establishment in all financial centers of sitting fee Bonus distribution.But surprisingly, while France tried to rally his neighbors across the Channel for several weeks at his position on the benefits of more regulation on earnings in finance, she was finally seeing that it was he who throws the water! "There is now no doubt, France will make arrangements," said the entourage of the Minister of Economy Christine Lagarde.
Remains that France, like England – which, beyond the political weight of the measure are well aware of economic realities – hope the approach will be part of "a new international pact, wrote Thursday British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy in an article published Thursday in The Wall Street Journal."It is clear that action can only be global," they insist.
That is why Gordon Brown has sent a letter Thursday to the leaders of the European Union, calling to discuss a tax bonus bank. "We must redress the balance of risks, rewards and responsibilities between the company and the financial sector," says he.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was eager to find "very charming and teaching" the idea of a tax basis. The topic should be discussed this Thursday evening at the European Council. The idea of Europe is obviously weighing on Americans.They know that all financial markets, including Wall Street, must abide by the same rules if some do not want to appear less competitive and attractive than others.
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The period of wage negotiations between management and unions currently undertaking begins. For example, at Renault, a first meeting on the subject will be held in two days. The big trend? The wage freeze was imposed last year should not disappear but retreat. According to Mercer, 21% of executives would see their wages frozen in 2010 against 42% this year. And 22% of employees against 35% this year.
Difficult, however, to rule on an average amount of increase because firms pay that reference have a different view. According to Hewitt, the increases will reach 2.6% next year against 2.8% in 2009.Mercer is more optimistic and believes that the increases will be larger in 2010 (+2.8% for a manager in the sales) against 2% in 2009 for example.
However all agree that even if a stronger recovery, the increases will not recover the levels (+ 3.5 to 4%) effective in years of strong economic growth.
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