Tag: Economy
“The United States and the European Union must support a United Nations tax convention”
VShis week we will either witness a historic success in creating a more equitable global economy, or a terrible failure. A vote at the United Nations will decide on Wednesday,…
“Let’s give mayors the power to act”
Urban violence, pension reform, fight against Covid-19… Faced with emergencies, the State has gotten into the habit of calling on municipalities for help. In the aftermath of the riots [à…
Airlines already facing a shortage of pilots
A Boeing 777X, during the Dubai Airshow, November 14, 2021. RULA ROUHANA / REUTERS The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has sounded the alarm. Over the next twenty years, it…
The order of doctors expresses “its deep concern” about the project to install telemedicine spaces in SNCF stations
The order of doctors strongly criticized, Monday, November 20, the SNCF’s plan to install telemedicine spaces in its stations, advising it instead “to improve rail service to the most isolated…
digital accessibility, a springboard for employment?
In France, 1.1 million people with disabilities work, but 450,000 remain unemployed. DEEPOL BY PLAINPICTURE/JOSE CARLOS ICHIRO Ssubtitles, voice synthesis, visual controls… Digital compensation tools make the daily lives of…
French MEPs help the box of Camembert
During the Brexit campaign in 2016, British conservative Boris Johnson loved to mock European legislation which, he claimed, very wrongly, would ban bananas. “curves” and bunches of more than three…
“All French agriculture must move to agroecology and, wherever relevant, to organic”
NOTur food system must be transformed to guarantee access for the entire population to healthy food, respecting the living conditions of farmers and planetary limits. It is crucial to restore…
Pharmacists warn of discontent in the pharmacy
Loss of attractiveness of the profession, lack of personnel, inflation… The future of the pharmacy network worries pharmacists. Gathered as an inter-union organization, the profession launched a call for a…
Olivier Dussopt postpones compensation reform until later
The Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, and the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, during a question session to the government, at the National Assembly, November 14, 2023. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP The government…
At a time when sport is being promoted as a major national cause, senators point out “the gap between declarations and reality” of the means
The Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, and the former rugby player of the South African team Tendai Mtawarira during the arrival of the Webb Ellis Cup, in Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine), on…
In Europe, these record fines that the champions of new technologies are slow to pay
Hundreds of millions of euros in sanctions… which are still not paid. The culprits: companies in the new technology sector. The fines that several Gafam companies are reluctant to pay,…
The legal recovery of Valdunes, symbol of the decay of the old industry in France
Demonstration of employees of the industrial company Valdunes, mobilized against the closure of their factory, during Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Dunkirk (North), May 12, 2023. SAMEER AL-DOUMY / AFP The…