As promised, the outer envelope of the future Jean-Bouin has already – in miniature – the air of Bird's Nest, the Beijing Olympic Stadium built for the 2008 Olympics. The enclosure doors of 20,000 seats, which will house the games of rugby players of Stade French ("exiles" for the moment Charléty) from the 2013-2014 season, were opened Thursday for the first route point site with the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, the club president, Thomas Savare, and most players, curious to get a glimpse of their new lair. Everyone has been noted that the bleachers and steelwork is almost complete, while laying the panels cover the roof and the front is moving fast. Everything should be completed by March 2013.

"With a stage like this, it will be champions of France and Europe," commented Bertrand Delanoe. "This tool can only make us grow economically and sportingly, it will also allow us to more easily attract the best players," has for its part welcomed Thomas Savare.

"A work of art"

Rodrigo Roncero, the mainstay of Argentina, who will retire at the end of the season, it will be "the best rugby stadium in France and perhaps even in Europe." Captain and figurehead of the French stage, Pierre Rabadan is on him "great to have a place where almost everything – weight room, gymnasium, offices, restaurant, etc.. – Will be consolidated. "

Conceived as "a work of art" by the architect Rudy Ricciotti, the reconstruction of Jean-Bouin will cost a whopping 149 million euros. The price – considered exorbitant by the objectors – to equip the Paris team a tool worthy of his ambitions. "The old stadium, built in 1925, no longer met the requirements of comfort and safety: dilapidated changing rooms, lack of functionality of local medical and space news," explains a representative of the City. Public reception, too, was now outdated. "The capacity was 7,705 seats (12,000 counting standing room, Ed) of which only covered 4376, ticket sales and refreshments were in portables, there was no housing for the partners and the track athletics away the audience of players, "says the City. Much inconvenience to join soon be overtaken.

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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 French system of press distribution does succeed in extricating himself from the dire straits in which the combined decline of newspaper sales and investment capacity of the publishers place for several years?

The French model is very specific. The market is shared between two messaging: Presstalis (ex-NMPP) and Messengers Lyons Press (MLP). The two coexisted for setting up the system, based on the principle of cost sharing distribution between publishers, under the rule of law Bichet 1947 that guarantees pluralism of the press. Presstalis distributes 75% of volumes in France, including all of the national daily press, the rest being transferred to MLP, its competitor centered on magazines.

Cost Sharing

In recent years, the MLP gained more market share by offering attractive rates. And at the same time, Presstalis sank into difficulties. Faced with significant structural costs, late in the modernization of its network, the messaging has been facing a severe crisis in 2009. Despite a savings plan of 86 million euros from 2010 to 2012, it would still lose 15 million in 2011.

Meanwhile, the structural decline of print media sales, estimated at 6% last year and probably similar in 2012, continues to affect the entire industry. NMPP has had to adjust its restructuring plan, adopted in December by the two cooperatives that comprise it. At the same time, certain securities of Mondadori France (Grazia, Top Health and Biba) and The Point have announced their departure from Presstalis for MLP.

Presstalis responded, saying the defections compromised, at the worst time, its turnaround plan. Hence his attempt, rejected by the new Regulatory Authority for distribution of the press, to freeze these departures securities. But Presstalis is returned to the charge by offering a longer notice periods for transfers of title to better anticipate the loss of customers.

Messaging supports the approach of the Supreme Council of the messaging of the press to share the cost with the MLP distribution of the national daily press, it is only to ensure the load while the flow of major newspapers are considered "structural "for the entire network. The recovery system will depend on the ability of actors to agree to divide equally the costs, while modernizing the network, including reconciliations between operating depots (wholesalers), now too many. The latter provide the newspaper distribution in 29,500 retail outlets.

In a statement, the unions have had explained during their meeting with Secretary of State in mid-day, ensuring that the tax on luxury hotel accommodation, passed by Parliament in September and applied since November 1, "will be removed payday loans in one hour."Had it been maintained, the tax would be added to the expected increase in the VAT on 1 January, according to Prime Minister's announcement.

The announcement of the abolition of this tax and details of the plate affected by the increase in VAT from 5.5 to 7% led the unions to "reaffirm the promises made in 2009 on employment, wages and investment ", they said in their statement.

A measure of 90 million euros

This was to compensate for the loss of revenue of 90 million euros due to the abandonment of the increase in VAT on theme parks.

However, both companies know each other well. Six years ago, Yahoo! has given its China operations to Alibaba Group, paid him a billion dollars in exchange for 40% stake in Chinese.Since then, the U.S. has seen its value plunge and Chinese flew. The market capitalization of Yahoo! – $ 20 billion – equivalent to almost exactly the estimates of the value of its stake in Alibaba Group, says the Wall Street Journal same day payday loans. The holding company is not quoted, unlike any of its subsidiaries, alibaba.com, whose capitalization is evolving in the region of 3.5 billion dollars to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Growth potential

Jerry Yang, founder of Yahoo!, for its part considers that his company still has a real potential for growth alone. This, even though the group has still not recovered from CEO to preside over its destiny after landing Carol Bartz in September.

The Chinese group is not the only one with views of Yahoo!. The investment fund Silver Lake, a Canadian pension fund and Microsoft are likely to file a joint bid.These speculations benefit under Yahoo! who won nearly 25% since the beginning of the month to return to the threshold of $ 16 a share on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Friday morning, in an interview Figaro.fr, the president of the SNCF had to call cool railway asking them to quickly resume work. After discussions with the unions in turn, management has committed to hold meetings with them to work to improve the security services. The first will be held Monday.

Traffic TGV, Corail and TER improved significantly Friday afternoon on the entire network, including 8-9 in 10 TGV from and to Paris and a TER of 2.But the return to normal really did that Saturday morning.

To find out if their train is running, users are advised to consult very Infolignes site, or call toll free (free from a landline) 0805 90 36 35.

Toll-free number and site of SNCF informationPotential always invites customers to delay their trip or take alternate means of transportation. Ticket holders whose train was canceled may obtain a refund, or take any train leaving for the same destination without the need to exchange their ticket.

The strike controller led Thursday the cancellation of all trains at night, and created a big mess all over the country. According to the station, all passengers stranded at the station in the evening were able to reach their destination or were assisted to find accommodation for the night.According to the Ministry of the Interior, it was not necessary to set up emergency housing plan.
Board trains at the Gare Saint-Charles in Marseille. Photo credits: GERARD JULIEN / AFP

The lawsuit against Samsung in the iPhone 4S, very fast, is not a surprise. During September, several of its leaders had suggested to the English-language daily Korea Times that a major action was preparing for "Apple hanging in the courts' right out of the new iPhone."It will be impossible for Apple to sell its iProduits with telecommunications functions, without using our patents," explained an officer of Samsung on condition of anonymity.

In detail, the Samsung grievances against Apple are the same as when filing a complaint with the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, July 8, against the iPhone 3G and 3G, the iPhone 4 , and 1 and 2 iPad 3G version. According to Samsung, these devices infringe three of its patents on W-CDMA technology, used for third generation mobile telephony. The application for interim measures against the iPhone 4S is it on two of its patents.

"We seem to move towards a total war"

The application for non-iPhone 4S in France and Italy in addition to a litany of lawsuits between Apple and Samsung launched in over ten countries unsecured personal loans.The American group, which attacked the first, seeks to prohibit particular tablet Galaxy Tab 10.1 smartphone Galaxy and S2, which he considered too much like the iPad. He earned a win in Germany and Australia, achieving a ban on the shelf. A proposed agreement, Australia has been refused by Apple.

Samsung, which had initially decided to adopt a defensive position, finally decided to strike back against the courts. "We seem to move towards a total war," said a spokesman for the group told AFP. However, it concluded last week an agreement with Microsoft, by agreeing to pay a fee for each Android phone sold under its brand and committing to support the development and marketing of Windows Phone.

Adversaries in court, Apple and Samsung are still partners.In 2010, Apple was also the second largest customer of Samsung, after Sony, representing 4% of its annual turnover. Memory and the processor of the iPhone A4 and 4 are supplied by the South Korean conglomerate. Samsung also manufactures the processor of the iPad 2 A5, which is found in the iPhone 4S. Its share in the design of other parts of the new Apple phone is not yet known.

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The European Commission highlights the paradox between a cleaner gasoline and cheaper duty-sold more expensive at the pump, and diesel more expensive duty free, massive source of emissions of fine particles hazardous to health, and less expensive for motorists. She said outside the UK, the tax treatment of petrol and diesel in Europe is "flawed" and needs the overhaul.

Concern

For manufacturers, the news comes at the worst time.These are already working on the application in 2014 of Euro 6, which calls for reducing carbon emissions and fine particles. This standard requires them to implement expensive technology on diesel vehicles that will increase the price of these cars from 1500 to 2000 euros. What scare away customers. If in addition the price of a liter of diesel fuel were to increase significantly, the diesel car market could collapse.

The Committee of French Automobile Manufacturers believes that the introduction of this directive in France could lose 20 points of market share on the sale of diesel cars. In the columns of Paris, its president, Patrick Blain, worried: "The decline in production in French factories (on the cutting edge in the field of diesel, ie) would inevitably have social consequences," he warns.

Professionals and individuals may also choose to get rid of their cars too expensive, which could lead to plummeting prices of diesel cars. "It may be possible to adopt transitional measures that will leave everyone time to adjust," said he.

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The stock has also lost more than 20% at the opening of Wall Street on Friday.A heavy penalty for a major strategic shift and two ads that markets generally enjoy little HP is preparing to spend 10 billion dollars for the purchase of Autonomy, the UK's leading software, and provided that the split of its business PC would cost one billion dollars in restructuring costs.

Just like what IBM has done six years ago, HP has chosen to focus on the activities dedicated to businesses (services, servers, data storage, network), while maintaining the imaging and printing. This focus on the professional world seems "logical" in light of the past of its CEO. Léo Apotheker has spent over twenty years with the German software company SAP, which he directed for eight years. These are businesses that generate margins sharply higher than in hardware sales.In 2010, business services have made 57 billion dollars in sales with in the key, 8.7 billion of operating income. Opposite, the PC division, tablet and phone posted a turnover of 40 billion turnover, but only 2 billion loss.

By refocusing on activities "business," Leo Apotheker also takes the bet that he will develop the activities of data storage and servers. HP boss set including data analysis and cloud computing (computer services remotely) to raise. Competitors will be renamed the IBM, Oracle, Cisco and not Apple.

Consecration of the failure

The future of the PC division, mobile and tablet (PSG) remains uncertain. All scenarios are possible.A split, with a possible initial public offering that would make an independent business, but competition to apply. Redemption, we know the ambitions of China's Lenovo, which has already bought the PC division of IBM and wants to become world number one. Finally, pure and simple abandonment is also not excluded. This scenario is the worst, while HP has spent $ 25 billion a decade ago to buy Compaq and 1.8 billion last year for Palm. The group also invested in the revitalization of its software WebOS, and in the manufacture of tablets and smartphones with touchpad that just marketing. "In this area, not a sprint, it's a marathon," said Leo Apotheker, in an interview with Le Figaro, in late June. It seems that the runner will be out of breath from the first kilometer.

Officially the project is not stopped.Communication amazing Indians necessarily leads to questions. The target market for these vehicles at very low cost, that is to say less than 3000 dollars, however, is huge. The goal is to put millions of Indians who use two-and three-wheeled rickshaws that the famous Bajaj is one of the leaders in the car.

Difficulties for the Nano

But the economic model is not easy to find, as shown by the difficulties encountered by the Tata Nano, the pioneer of its kind launched in 2008. Tata has indeed had to increase the price of the Nano several times since its launch. Today it is sold at a price of about $ 4,000 against $ 2,500 at the presentation of the project faxless payday advance. In addition, the model has undergone a number of technical problems, which has dented its image among consumers. Result: sales prove disappointing.At June 30, less than 22,000 had been passed Nano on the previous twelve months. Far from the target of 250,000 vehicles in stride.

To compete with the Nano is that Renault and Nissan sign an agreement with Bajaj in 2007. Bajaj should design the vehicle, which will be sold by Renault and Nissan. The first date given for such marketing is in 2010. It then slides to 2011 and 2012. Yet this is a purely theoretical date, since the decision to launch this vehicle has never been officially made. And nothing says it will be taken, especially after the delay yesterday. It would not be the first disappointment for Renault in India. In April 2010, the group had in fact ended a joint venture with Mahindra & Mahindra, which produced, with little success, Logan. These difficulties do not however call into question the ambitions of Renault in India.The Diamond brand has even made one of its three priority countries in development. It has a factory in Chennai, which already manufactures the Nissan Micra. And introduced an aggressive new product launches. For a month, the Fluence sedan is marketed. The Koleos 4 × 4 will follow in September. And announcements are expected for the new salon in New Delhi, to be held next January.