In 2008, he cherished the hope of becoming the first secretary of the PS. But he had finally lined up behind the candidacy of Bertrand Delanoe. In 2011, he thought he could be a candidate for the Socialist primary. Then he threw in the towel, choosing to support Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then rallying Francois Hollande not without obtaining the position of campaign manager. Pierre Moscovici, 54, has learned to give up. Here he is rewarded. He is back in force to the government and assigned the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Foreign Trade. Certainly it does not get the Quai d'Orsay which he dreamed, Laurent Fabius was his favorite. But he inherited a portfolio to match its ambitions. And thereby in passing some disappointed, Michel Sapin in mind. "Mosco" consensual socialist, social democrat, is now a heavyweight team Ayrault, number five in protocol order.

It is he who will be at the forefront of the debt crisis. There is no shortage of assets since knows the workings of Europe. He was, for five years, from 1997 to 2002, Minister Delegate for European Affairs in the Jospin government. At the time, the rise of the Express near the then prime minister, who had just been elected deputy of the Doubs for the first time, had been criticized. But, he will prove himself. Former MEP, a graduate of Sciences Po and ENA, he will prepare no quack the French presidency of the EU, negotiating the Treaty of Nice and the European Constitutional Treaty. During this period of cohabitation, he managed also to find his place against Jacques Chirac. In fact, the President of the Republic and the Socialist Minister for European Affairs are of course in these five years: Chirac taking the young minister with no experience under his wing, even to comfort him when he doubted. An agreement with Lionel Jospin was annoyed.

After the failure of the left in 2002, Moscovici was defeated in the parliamentary elections in the Doubs. A year earlier, he had already failed to municipal Montbéliard. Without parliamentary seat, without mayor, he tried his luck with the 2004 European and found his seat in Strasbourg. In 2007 he was again legislative candidate in the Doubs. This time he wins.

Pierre Moscovici, tried by the Revolutionary Communist League when he was young, joined the PS in 1984. He was close to Michel Rocard, Jospin and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, his former professor at the ENA. He is the son of a social psychologist Serge Moscovici, who was a member of the Romanian Communist Party and fled his country in 1947. Pierre Moscovici was the first to openly criticize the Socialist Francois Mitterrand and his relationship with Rene Bousquet. "What shocks me, he said, is that he can spawn with someone who has been a tool of the state anti-Semitism and an accomplice of the final solution of the Reich." … …..

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The annual transfer window began, but it's not even that of facilitators. In the wake of presidential elections, what are the directions of the various editorial radios and TVs that move the lines. At accounts, those that have failed to boost audiences draw conclusions for their leaders. Albert Ripamonti and just thanked the management of information in the chain i-TV. "Our peak audience was three years ago, before the arrival of Albert Ripamonti. Since we have been falling, "whispers one in the chain. It could be replaced by Celine Pigalle, editor of the Morning of Canal +.

Similarly, Arlette Chabot is moved away from the direction of information on Europe 1, the morning is worth it. Officially, Denis Olivennes, president of Europe 1, and Arlette Chabot agreed at the outset that the journalist would leave the station after the presidential election. But internally, we observe that the "information did not take off at election time, and hearings were held to entertainment."

His successor, Fabien Namias, who had learned his trade in the station of the Rue Francois I, returns after only two years at the helm of the political department of France 2. Thierry Thuillier, head of France Televisions essays, sees no downside: "It's part of the trade, he says. Namias Fabien spent two years here, it serves to further his career payday advance. That's fine. "Europe 1, which has undergone many changes over the past four years, could enjoy the arrival of a man who knows well the drafting and home.

The test of presidential

It is internally that France 2 could find his replacement. Bornstein Gilles, or St. Cricq Nathalie, who invented successfully "Words and deeds," could be promoted. But for Thierry Thuillier, who made the France 2 channel benchmark info, the focus is now elsewhere: "The major issues are now on the side of the economy and Europe and less than that of political . "Similarly, after France 2, Thierry Thuillier is determined to set the course for the info on France 3. And indeed, respecting the saying "we do not change the winning teams' media such as RTL, Radio France, France Televisions BFMTV or retain all their captain who provided effective coverage of political news in recent months . More complicated is the case of TF1 whose service info has pitched terribly wrong after the audience ratings of the presidential election. The first private channel hopes to catch up today with the handover.

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From our correspondent in London

Rupert Murdoch and his son James are roundly scolded by a British parliamentary committee responsible for a report on the scandal of the late plays of the tabloid News of the World. Rupert Murdoch "is not fit to lead a large international group," concludes the report, released Tuesday. The board deems "surprising" the allegations of Murdoch, father and son under which they would not have been in practice courtant espionage on a large scale in force in their newspapers. "Rupert Murdoch closed his eyes and demonstrated a willful blindness to what was happening in their societies and publications," the whips 121-page report, the culmination of nine months of hearings. MEPs also say that the News of the World and its publisher News International deliberately "misled the committee about the true nature and extent of the investigations they claimed to have carried on wiretapping."

Several leaders of the media group, are also the subject of harsh criticism. His ex-CEO Les Hinton is considered an "accomplice" of concealment of practices in the home. The parliamentary committee has, however, divided on the report's findings, adopted by six votes against four. Conservative members refused to accept the judgment against Rupert Murdoch's ability to manage. Labour MP Tom Watson, spearheading the investigation, has firmly told the opposite: "News International has conducted a cover-up scale of its illegal actions. Its top leaders have lied to parliament repeatedly. And the two men at the head, Rupert and James Murdoch, should now respond to these facts. They have corrupted our country to shame our police and our parliament. They lied, cheated, practiced blackmail and intimidation. "

David Cameron called

The report leaves the House of Commons to decide on possible sanctions, which could involve the convening of Rupert Murdoch for a public apology. It is an embarrassment media mogul facing some of its shareholders, especially Americans, tired of the damage inflicted by News Corp. in this case. The report could also weigh negatively in the review by Ofcom, the regulator of the British media, the legitimacy of the group to manage the BSkyB satellite TV bouquet, whose license could be withdrawn.

Finally, the parliamentary report increases the pressure on David Cameron, who was summoned Monday to the House of Commons where he justified his support for his culture minister Jeremy Hunt challenged for its proximity to the leaders of the Murdoch group in reviewing the file BSkyB. Tom Watson claimed that the Prime Minister and his predecessors Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the court submit to their email exchanges with the leaders of the Murdoch group.

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Johnny Hallyday is still found in the sights of the French tax authorities. According to Duck chained, the singer was notified of a recovery of 9 million euros, after a heavy investigation since late 2010. In January 2011, several searches took place at home and some of his relatives. Yesterday press service of Johnny Hallyday stated that he had "no comment". Interviewed this morning on RTL, the French rocker has refused to confirm that a tax adjustment it was notified in late 2001.  

When asked after the launch of its 2012 tour Tuesday night in Los Angeles, the singer said only: "I can confirm anything because it is you who teach me, I go out on stage, I is my music for me is what is most important. "

According to the weekly satirical, the IRS regrets the existence of "a complex network of companies operating in rather baroque", particularly for a Luxembourg company, Nerthus Invest SA, a shareholder is an entity based in Liberia.

The rocker is well again at the center of a tax case. He who had already seen straightening of some 100 million francs (15 million) in 1975. A sum which he performed fifteen years later. Johnny Hallyday, who has tried several ways to pay less tax in France, was eventually settled in Switzerland in 2007. This is the Swiss tax authorities that he pays taxes on his personal income. But his artistic and commercial activities performed in the Hexagon fall under French law.

This notification to the star falls ill. At 69, after his serious health problems, "the Taulier" was to make his comeback from the Orpheum Theater on Tuesday night in Los Angeles, before starting a huge tour in mid-May in France.

It could also be controversial, right in between the two rounds of presidential elections. Johnny Hallyday has also indicated today that he "meddles never openly political" believing that an artist does not have to decide, "he said in an interview with Republican Lorraine. Close to Jacques Chirac, Johnny Hallyday had taken position for Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 who married in 1996 with Laetitia.  

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3 Suisses must be patient. Three years after removing nearly 700 jobs a year and a half after the launch of a major modernization plan in 2013, the specialist mail order (VPC) is still not the end of his troubles.

In 2011, the turnover of the group 3 Suisses International (3SI) fell a further 5.6% and the accounts are still in the red. Of course, "this decline is partly explained by the market environment somewhat depressed for clothing," says German Otto vpciste which holds 51% stake (alongside the Family Association Mulliez 44%). But the European leader recognizes that the repositioning of 3SI in losses since 2005, is "a little slow."

Denis Terrien, founder and CEO of Amazon. Fr, arrived in June 2009 with orders for 3SI to instill the spirit internet business that made him still lacking. Born in 1932, the group had made back in 1998, however the entire catalog of its flagship brand online in 2007 and had proposed its first application to control from his mobile phone. But the organization was still oriented around the two "big book" seasonal, declined in line with their promotion system increasingly important.

The figures show that the mutation is far from over: according to our information, the three Swiss have a cumulative loss of 165 million euros since 2008, with another 15 million euros last year. For all consumer brands, the loss would amount to 110 million euros. "It is unlikely that the 3 Suisses reach equilibrium this year, as foreseen in the strategic plan. For this particular reason that Laurence Paganini had to give up CEO in late January to the leader of spoiler, "says a close case.

Delete homes losses

While its competitor La Redoute (Redcats) has already increased from 2 to 10 collections a year, a key element of the transformation, the catalogs remain offseason in three Swiss still largely a work in progress. This explains why the 3 Suisses realize only 66% of their online sales against 78% for La Redoute. The average is 50% for the ten consumer brands 3SI (3 Suisses, Blancheporte, Spoiler, Window Magic …), or 11 points less than the subsidiary of PPR. "The challenge of this evolution to the Internet is to keep its best customers, while attracting new, old, and their loyalty," said Olivier Trouvé, a consultant at Kurt Salmon instant credit reports.

Meanwhile, 3SI continues to suppress outbreaks of losses: the last of its 35 stores closed earlier this year. As the site buy / sell 2xMoinsCher, acquired in 2006. What about its subsidiary, resumed in spring 2010 for his younger clients file, it also pulled the curtain end of January.

The transformation should move faster once the redesign of systems of consumer brands finalized. Group 3 SI has indeed devoted nearly half of the envelope of € 70 million plan to modernize the "largest construction site computer currently in France," according 3SI. The links between trade marks may be tightened in order to promote cross-selling, as is done on the virtual shopping mall lechouchou.com, online since late January. "The IT component is the only site where the three Swiss were up," according to critics.

Become a service provider

3 Suisses are now trying two revolutions at once: to turn into e-trader and service provider for other Internet retailers. More than half of the investments are vested in the building at Hem, near Lille, the "largest database storage and order picking in France," according to 3 Suisses International (SI 3). The warehouse, built next to that of Mondial Relay, covers an area comparable to six football fields and will be operational in October.  

The building, where packages are trademarks of the group to mingle with other online retailers, is the missing of the SI strategy 3, which wants to open its various subsidiaries to external customers. Very optimistic, the group expects to double the number of clients, individuals and professionals to reach 20 million by 2020. At its shareholder Otto, the branch services increased 9% in 2011, exceeding one billion euros. Ikea and Oxylane make their photos in the studios of Quai de l'Image. Mondial Relay manages some 1,200 parcels of e-tailers, as the Relais Colis, a subsidiary of La Redoute.

"The picking is more strategic than other services. 3 Suisses may have difficulty recruiting. Especially since many experts have already invested the niche of Logistics, "said an e-merchant, reflecting the view of many respondents. Even private-sale, real reference in the sector, has decided to delegate the logistics of the Digital Factory, its service company for e-tailers.

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The misfortune of one is the happiness of others! The soaring oil bill burden on household budgets Western made the fortune of the Gulf countries. The Institute of International Finance (IIF) evokes that an increase of over 19% in one year the amount of net foreign assets of the wealthy Gulf states this year. In 2012, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain, and should show net foreign assets of 1900 billion against $ 1.6 trillion of assets held in late 2011. And the outbreak of the assets of these countries should increase to 2140 billion at the end of 2012, provides for the IIF, provided that oil prices and production levels remain unchanged.  

These Gulf countries should also make record oil revenues of 572 billion this year, against 538 billion in 2011, according to estimates by the financial organization. Their nominal GDP added totaled 1.4 trillion dollars last year, posting an annual increase of 31%. Their sum is expected to reach 1.5 trillion dollars at the end of this year, still provides the IIF.

The six monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are indeed the prime beneficiaries of record oil prices since they own 40% of global oil reserves and 25% of those of natural gas. These oil-producing countries have spare capacity in oil production from 2.5 million to 3 million barrels per day (bpd), indicates the financial organization.

But these natural assets are not everything. The institute suggests the existence of risks detrimental to the growth of the Gulf and especially the impact Arab Spring or tensions over Iran. The institute plans to capitalize on a growth rate of the six countries of 4.9% this year and 4.2% in 2013 against 6.9% in 2011.

After Paris, Marseille. The Mama Shelter, the boho hip hotel, launched in September 2008 by Serge Trigano, Philippe Starck and Cyril Aouizerate, will inaugurate a second location in ten minutes from the port of Marseille, April 12. "This opening has been delayed, admits Serge Trigano. But there's no hurry. We open where we want when we want! "He promises, however, an acceleration of openings, emphasizing that" the twenty-first century will be the century of cities for tourism. " The inauguration of a Mama Shelter is announced for the second half in Istanbul. Lyon and Bordeaux before early 2013. Negotiations are also underway for the opening in an old 1920s hotel, in the district of Hollywood, Los Angeles, "late 2013". "We have building permits for all hotels, except Los Angeles, who was responsible DG and CEO of Club Med between 1985 and 1997. The projects are in progress. "It is also seeking a second address in Paris and in Toulouse prospects.

The Mama Shelter in Marseille will be slightly smaller than that of Paris (127 rooms, 172 against), and Philippe Starck, who signs the design again, opted for lighter colors. The rooms, dark in Paris, will be in shades of pink, yellow and blue in Marseille. The first prize will be 69 euros per night, 10 euros less than in Paris. The goal is to reach the first year an average price of 100-115 euros, and an occupancy rate of 50-60%.

Two stars

Attracting a fashionable clientele, a mix of tourists and businessmen, both French and foreign, Mama Shelter is a separate product. All rooms are equipped with an iMac. 95% of sales are on its website. With an average price of 129 euros and an average occupancy rate of 80.5% last year, the institution does, however, that both stars and the residency status of tourism paydayloans. "To save water, we have showers in every room, says Serge Trigano. We are denied today the third star in the new hotel classification because we did not have a bath! "

Since opening, the first price is 79 euros. "We adjust our prices more aggressively: they increase gradually as the occupancy rate also increases," says Serge Trigano. Thus, one room originally proposed to 109 euros can cost up to 149 euros for a client last minute.

Last year, the Mama Shelter has increased its turnover by 14% to 14 million euros, thanks to increased traffic and activity of his restaurant, which represents 50% of sales. It is "500 to 800 covers per day. Even in our wildest dreams we never thought to attract so many people. " Since January, sales of Mama Shelter increased by over 10%.

"Investors were apprehensive at first, says Serge Trigano. Decide to open a hotel in the twentieth arrondissement of Paris, by focusing as much on his restaurant on the rooms, it was a gamble. But the great sagas hotel (Marriott, Hyatt, Hilton …) are often stories of families. The results exceeded our expectations. "Holding today 54% stake in the company with his two son, along with three associates, Michel Reybier (27%), Cyril Aouizerate (11%) and Philippe Starck (8%) he works with the family at Mama Shelter. His son Jeremiah (35) is CEO. His other son, Benjamin (35 years) is in charge of marketing. Residing in Los Angeles, he prospected for brand development in the United States.

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In the logic of "rights and duties" which is his, Nicolas Sarkozy promised Monday night to tax tax exiles. The Government has already established last year an exit tax, which taxes unrealized gains of the French going abroad. But the president-candidate wants to go further, proposing that any tax paid to the exiled French tax authorities the difference between the tax paid in their country of residence and that he would have paid in France.

First precision, only capital income – dividends, interest, capital gains – would be affected, if they exceed a certain threshold. With these conditions, expatriates escape, as desired by Nicolas Sarkozy, to higher taxation. Indeed, one part went to work abroad receives a salary, which does not fall within the scope of the measure, and some capital income too low to exceed the threshold. Conversely, the exiles are often more active and live their heritage.

The focus on capital income has another advantage, purely political: to distinguish themselves from the proposal made in 2010 by Jerome Cahuzac, president of the PS Finance Committee in the Assembly, to tax high incomes of French abroad, including labor income. At the time, Baroin, budget minister, had criticized the idea, speaking of "right of blood tax" contrary to the French system.

Compatibility with European law

In fact, our tax law, like all developed countries except the U.S., is built on territoriality, not nationality: French living in Germany a payroll tax beyond the Rhine, a German resident in France and acquitted in the Hexagon. "As a result, the measure proposed by Nicolas Sarkozy assumed to renegotiate our tax treaties with other countries. A complicated task, "says Nicolas Jacquot, partner at Arsene Taxand. In the campaign team, it was answered that it will suffice to review the agreements with the states most favored by the tax exiles. Such as Belgium, Luxembourg or Switzerland. "However, France will have to convince these countries to negotiate, which is nothing obvious," warns Marc Vaslin, partner at Scotto & Associates, a law firm based in Paris, Geneva and Brussels.

Another question: that of incompatibility with European law. European Commissioner Michel Barnier yesterday denied any obstacle. An opinion not shared by the Circle of the tax, which analyzes the candidates' proposals for Le Figaro throughout the campaign: "the measure can be considered an obstacle to freedom of movement and settlement," notes the one of its members, attorney Jean-Yves Mercier. In short, the practical implementation of the tax exiles looks daunting.

If these revenues were estimated at 500 million by Nicolas Sarkozy, some are more skeptical. "The very wealthy households keep their assets in holding companies and pay themselves the minimum income," says Jean-Yves Mercier. The number of exiles is itself unclear. Just do you know that 500 indebted to ISF leave the country every year and from 2000 to 2500 the French enjoy preferential treatment in Switzerland. To verify the application of the measure, the IRS will conduct examinations heavy and therefore costly. The measure will be symbolic in every sense of the term.

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The German Cabinet Wednesday approved the European fiscal pact signed by EU leaders last week. But this is only the beginning of a new showdown to Angela Merkel. For the Chancellor must obtain a two thirds majority in the German Parliament to ratify the treaty, which induces a change in the fundamental law, the Constitution. And the opposition, whose votes will be required by, has already set his conditions to his joining in a letter to the government.

The Social Democrats, like the Greens, calling for the inclusion in the pact of measures to promote growth and employment, and conditions approves the introduction of a tax on financial transactions at least in the eurozone.

Was a hard blow to the Chancellor: his liberal coalition partners oppose wind at both. As for the ratification of the second aid package to Greece in February, his own most risk of it failing again. Disavowal of a new politically weaken to the point of projecting his center-right coalition on the verge of bursting.

The opposition does not hide his satisfaction. "The Chancellor is committed in a losing battle. She was eleven weeks of exciting domestic politics before it! ", Says Thomas Opperman, one of the leaders of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag.

Godsend for Holland

The Bundestag must ratify the text at first reading in late May, before it is finally adopted, always in the Bundestag, three weeks later. However, the opposition did not rein as frank as it wants in negotiations. Because it can ill afford to vote no to a deal supported by an overwhelming majority of Germans thrilled to see the Germanic discipline imposed on the rest of the euro area. Moreover, early elections would focus again Merkel at the chancellery under all the polls.

Inspired by Berlin, the fiscal pact, which comes into force on 1 January 2013, commits the 25 countries of the European Union signatories (of 27) to more fiscal discipline. It generalizes the "golden rule" which requires states to balance the budget. Pillar of the new European economic governance, this text is seen as the essential counterpart to the German financial solidarity towards the most vulnerable countries.

Embarrassing for Angela Merkel, the conditions imposed by the German opposition to ratification of the treaty are a boon to Francois Hollande, who has promised to renegotiate the pact if elected president. But the rallying of the German Social Democrats stops there. The views of the French Socialists on the role of the European Central Bank continue to arouse the greatest suspicion to the SPD.

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