The civilian nuclear should not be restricted to a few. Opening Friday – at OECD headquarters in Paris – the international conference on nuclear Nicolas Sarkozy immediately insisted on the principle of cooperation. "France believes that the share of nuclear power for peaceful purposes is a decisive factor for compliance with environmental concerns and a better distribution of wealth in the world," explained the president.

A clear signal at a time when some sixty countries intend to establish one or more reactors to produce electricity.Except that such a machine is expensive – more than 5 billion euros for example, the EPR (the prototype third generation being built by EDF and Areva) – and it requires highly skilled personnel to make function.

Specifically, Nicolas Sarkozy called on Monday in Paris that the financing of major international institutions can benefit new entrants in the atom. "I do not understand and I do not accept ostracism of nuclear power (…), the current situation is tantamount to condemning the country to an energy more expensive and polluting, has hammered the tenant of the Elysee.

Regarding the development of skills, Nicolas Sarkozy announced the creation in France of an International Training Institute. It will house a "school of international nuclear" as part of an "international network of centers of excellence".An initial implementation has already been decided: it will be in Jordan, a country with which France has signed a nuclear cooperation agreement.

Pathway lights

Overall, the intervention of Nicolas Sarkozy should be read in light of the ambitions of the French sector, which is developed contacts with many countries – in addition to firm orders – to sell the EPR. A chain but seriously mistreated in Abu Dhabi where the lights consortium (consisting of EDF, GDF Suez, Areva and Total) has been outflanked by South Korea.

Monday, referring implicitly to this failure, the president regretted that the market does not classify reactors that according to the price criterion. But the EPR is significantly more expensive than most other models with which it is directly in competition.It should therefore, according to Nicolas Sarkozy, that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) establish a classification "as the criterion of safety."

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"I am black, French and I measure 1.93 meters. Here's how Tidjane describes himself himself a headhunter British came to offer him a position with Aviva in 2002. This polytechnician Franco-Ivorian then 40 years and worked for international consulting firm McKinsey study. Yet he prefers to prevent the caller who asked him to go to an interview for a position at the first insurer in the United Kingdom.

At that time, Tidjane was scalded by all its difficulties in finding a position to match its ambitions in France. However, his resume is not supposed to let recruiters indifferent. Born into a family of Côte d'Ivoire, son of former Ivorian Minister of Information and an illiterate mother until his thirty years Tidjane joined the cream of French schools in a faultless display.After preparatory classes, he pocketed his diploma from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1984 and parade on the Champs Elysees on July 14. He also wins a civil engineering degree Mines de Paris is a major promotion in 1986. The same year he completed this course with an MBA at Insead.

The fight against the discrimination he experienced in France became one of his fights. In a text entitled "What does being French," written for the think-tank "Institut Montaigne," the man tells her "frustration" when one of her classmates became hunter head told him to have his name struck off the list "because the answer was invariably: profile interesting and impressive, but you understand … '. He said he tired of constantly hitting the "glass ceiling" image means economic difficulties of a class of person to get to a position of responsibility.Term frequently used for women.

Parenthesis policy

Before the episode Aviva Tidjane fled discrimination in the economic world to take refuge in politics. With again, an extraordinary journey. After his degree, he took a sabbatical to attend the Young Professionals Program of the World Bank. A training program designed to attract the best young talent around the world. In 1994, he accepted a post as head of the National Bureau of Technical Studies and Development of the new President of Côte d'Ivoire, Henri Konan Bédié, he proposes. It will occupy until the coup of December 1999.

In August 1998, he became Minister of Planning and Development of his homeland. That same year he was selected among the "100 most promising leaders of tomorrow 'Forum in Davos (Young Global Leaders of Tomorrow).He was elected member of Dream Cabinet in 1999 and the Consultative Council of the Institute of the World Bank. With his little glasses and his smile, Tidjane convincing as Tony Blair. The British prime minister at the time chose to be a member of his Commission for Africa.

Back to Economics

In 2002, Tidjane closes the parenthesis policy by accepting a position with Aviva as director of strategy and development. He opts for the Great Britain said that "very tolerant and very open." Ambitious, Tidjane quickly climbed the ranks to become CEO of the biggest insurer in Britain. So when he decided to "downgrade" to the position of CFO at the competitor Prudential in September 2007, the new surprises. "This is not common.It almost never happens except when the directors of the divisions run much smaller, "says Gavin Hinks, British journalist. "Tidjane is obviously a very talented and ambitious. This is clearly someone who is being tipped for the top and should not remain very long time CFO.

The reporter was right. In October 2009, Tidjane becomes CEO of Prudential. He became the first passage to black to head a multinational FTSE 100. The City is also in love. So much so that she heartily applauded his promotion.

Today, the strategic choices of the Ecole Polytechnique are unanimously. The latest to Asia is no exception to the rule. Five months after his arrival at the head of Prudential, the group set out to conquer the biggest emerging market in the world.When Tidjane formalized the acquisition of Asian operations of AIG by a transaction colossal $ 35.5 billion, the news has excited all the financial centers of the United States to Asia via Europe. Incidentally, Prudential has also returned to profit in 2009, with a net profit of 676 million pounds (about 755 million euros) over the past year, against a loss of 396 million pounds (493 million euros ) a year earlier.

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With Twitter, the communication is passed in real time. With Shazam, the iPhone has become a machine to recognize the music. German Aka-Aki opened the madness of mobile location based social networks. These services are transforming our lives for several months have been identified, there are one or two years, the Forum Netexplorateur. Founded in 2008 by Martine and Thierry Bidegain Happe, it seeks to identify innovations that can have a significant impact on the uses digital economy or society. The third edition, including Le Figaro is a partner, meets Thursday and Friday to the Senate in Paris. It is an opportunity to set new standards in the "socio-digital revolution" underway.

The winners of the 2010 edition were selected from more than 440 projects emerging. They are part of a new digital world where the Internet becomes ubiquitous.The URL can not be visited more but found himself. Many objects become key input into an ecosystem where real and not real live. Databases and servers are scattered, software and outsourced services, terminal dematerialized. The interface for mobile augmented reality Sixth Sense allows to browse the Internet with a virtual screen projected by a minicam, dial a phone number in the palm of his hand or view a video on a newspaper article. Accessible from anywhere, this new Internet makes the user knowing. With mobile browser layar augmented reality, any building or environment is an opportunity to unwind "layers of virtual information.Augmented with TAT ID, the user can display a variety of virtual cards and virtual social networking profiles around her face, free to the caller to download this information.

Freeing the user of the computer

This ecosystem is emerging as new human-machine interfaces capable of freeing, ultimately, the user of the computer or a smartphone. The aircraft of the future will respond to a voice command, gesture or brain. The French HiLabs has already begun to deploy an intelligent window on the windows of merchants Grenoble: responding to displacement of people, she then called by a movie, the way to interact with one giant touch screen (Eyelights).

On the Internet also should be contacted individually to the consumer.Social networks like Facebook and Twitter is why a "hunting ground" ideal marker there conversations on Internet brand and integrate it with an ad campaign that takes account of these opinions (People Powered Ads).

In this new digital world order, and environmental organizations are impacted first. The technology can learn to change and therefore it is the creed of Source Map, which shows the carbon footprint of a product or a food or Mobile Lucas, who turns the mobile phone Minilab analysis medical use and particularly to distinguish true and false cases of malaria.

Similarly, the Better Place project relies heavily on intelligence network, able to indicate to drivers of electric cars recharging station nearest, then manage the transaction load and billing.At work, it calls for transparency on the powers of his future employer to decide to change. What improve individual productivity or collective, as the founder of the website Get a Great Boss. In parallel, microtâches can be relocated and create microjobs for solidarity: the draft Work Give an iPhone application developed by Samasource, which proposes to perform computing tasks mechanical ( "tag" a video detailing card, test application) by refugees from Dadaab camp in Kenya. Initiatives that, once industrialized are likely to reverse the tide.

The Industry Minister has detailed a series of measures that could change the face of French industry at the opening of the Estates General, which meet from today the industry representatives and social partners. He said hoped "that we study the financial and tax help for the relocation of production facilities and R & D". Christian Estrosi said that this "could take the form of premiums for relocation financed by the state variables at amounts of investment and number of jobs re-created. For example, the Minister cited the automotive supplier Ghent, which brought the activities of Romania to the Vosges.

However, Claude Miserey, Vice-President of the French Union of the Clothing Industry, said for his part that "it's not because we're going to reward our textile industries will begin to relocate, why should significantly reduce payroll taxes for production in France again become competitive. "

Aids for companies with fewer than 100 employees

Christian Estrosi has also proposed developing "a model of cooperative enterprise in which employees have majority ownership, a measure especially designed for businesses with fewer than 100 employees. In addition, the Minister mentioned the track "innovation tax credit, which would complement the existing research tax credit to help the innovative company after the filing of patent and until the launch of production.Other track: minister said he would "consider the implementation of green subsidized loans for the benefit of investment in industrial processes more environmentally friendly."

The estates will be developed around three pillars: a "national focus, with the establishment of a committee" called "CNEGI (National Committee of the General Industry), a" regional focus ", with the organization of workshops in the regions, and a "participatory axis, via a website. The themes will be related to innovation, the "policy networks", "employment and training", "competitiveness and green growth" and "access to finance.Up to € 15,000 per job in France repatriated Specifically, companies, small or large, can benefit from a support mechanism whose details remain to be determined but will take into account several factors including geographic location, the amount of investment and the number of jobs relocated. "It will be a variable premium and no tax credit. This will obviously give and take," said one expert dossier. The company wishing to relocate part of its activities will be most helped if she settled into a disadvantage. Experts estimate that the amount of aid will be between 10,000 and 15,000 euros per job. This amount will likely be added to other premiums. The number of jobs that companies with foreign parties could relocate in France is still difficult to assess.According to recent experiences, the Department estimates that on average a year, French companies could result in such incentives to repatriate a thousand jobs a month. Several companies have recently set the example, the company Vosges Ghent (Europe's leading metal mechanics and perforated fabric) has reported its machines from two sites in Romania. "We expect that the crisis subsides to make the hires," says a spokesman. In the world of optics, Atol relocated in 2005 a portion of its production previously done in China, for example, be more responsive to the request of its customers. Relocation may also have commercial benefits

Times are tough, but some still manage to pull the chestnuts out of fire. Property Regions (FDR) has come to an agreement with Groupama and Predica to buy them a nice batch of offices worth 267 million euros. Constrained by debt (58.8% of its equity), the listed property company expects to fund its operations by issuing 3.9 million new shares. Groupama will rise to 5% of its capital. Predica, Crédit Agricole subsidiary, already owns 3.2%, rising to 7%.

On a stone three coups. While expansion of its heritage, FDR strengthens its capital without increasing debt. Having divested 633 million in assets since January and renegotiated its credit lines, the property enjoys a "timely", as President of its Executive, Christophe Kullmann. FDR put his hand on quality assets at a price considered attractive."At 6 500 euros per sqm with a yield of 7% is an operation which shows that the crisis was moving prices, said Christophe Kullmann. Bankers return, insurance companies have collected a lot of money and tradeoffs we are favorable bond yields are low and risk aversion has decreased. "

At year end, FDR will make a second capital increase for existing shareholders by offering to purchase 200 million new shares at a preferential price. Its debt would then fall back to more reasonable levels, around 56% of its equity.

The post-crisis?

Is this the beginning of the post-crisis? After nine months of sluggishness, investment tends actually to leave, knowing that we've been through. The major transactions in the fourth quarter will not save the year, the worst the industry since 1998.But they will help give an award to products that arise on sale in the coming months.

Observed around the pressure to lower rents have hit a low point in the beautiful neighborhoods of central Paris. Good resistance that appeals to insurers, such as German funds, often little indebted, or private investors who wish to also do good business.

Among the big "deals" finalized or could be, the sale by the HSBC bank's headquarters in Paris on the Champs-Elysees. A long-awaited transaction that the market estimated at 400 million euros. It could be done under a Qatari sovereign wealth fund, if the parties agree. In the suburbs of Paris, another building, new one, will soon be sold by U.S. fund Carlyle at Credit Agricole, which could make his future headquarters.Since January, Klépierre in turn sold 400 million euros in offices and shops. The listed property, owned 52% by BNP Paribas, is selling one billion of assets by the end of 2010, but refrain from seizing opportunities.

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