Bernard Thibault has decided on the name that he will present Tuesday to succeed him in 2013 at the head of the CGT. As expected, although he chose a woman … but not announced. Corroborating sources, his choice fell on Nadine Prigent, fifties, nurse and patron of the Federation of Health. A surprise. Bernard Thibault – who would not answer the Figaro had dismissed early due Nadine Prigent negative feedback when he suggested his name in 2011. The future ex-secretary general urged Agnes Naton, fifties also patron appreciated on Labour, the newspaper house, and retired from the Federation of Post. Before changing his mind Monday.

"Nobody understands this change," says an officer taken into confidence. Especially Naton Agnes seems more appreciated internally and Nadine Prigent. The latter "has no profile, is rigid and has little support," says a connoisseur of the house. Now she will face Eric Aubin, too fifties, head of the federation of construction and "Mr. Retreats" of the plant, praised by activists, backed by the largest federations (energy, chemicals, railway …) and speared mediatically at Woerth reform. A favorite … which does not Bernard Thibault. "It is a matter of principle and person, an expert understands. He did not like Eric Aubin began a campaign and doing everything to block his path. "Even if the secular change of designation rules.

"Learning Democracy"

The head of the CGT is indeed chosen has always proposed by the outgoing Secretary General, the confederal committee (NAC), the parliament of the plant which includes the leaders of the federations and territories. But Bernard Thibault has a grudge against the SCC since its members were obliged, in 2005, to call to vote "no" vote on the EU constitution while he would not take sides.

Come a new feeling bad shot, so he modified in 2010 the procedure for appointing his successor by integrating the Executive Board (EB), the central government composed of relatives chosen by him. These are its members and will propose Tuesday that a name that will be confirmed or not by the NCC May 30 "In a structure like the CGT, one does not belong: it is not a candidate, we are led by organizations", philosopher Éric Aubin. A relative finds that Bernard Thibault seeks "an ultimate coup": "He wants to force the hand of the NCC, which escapes with an EC decision is proficient." Unless this is a gamble to go to the last moment as the ultimate guardian of the unity and try to re-enlist for a fifth term

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The psychodrama of the designation of the future head of the CGT will in any case to leave traces. "It'll be a hell of a mess and he is not sure that the CGT then reaches to congregate," predicts one expert, for which Thibault missed his exit. "The CGT is slowly learning of democracy, another nuance. This is the first time that the secretary general will not be recommended by the CPF. "

In fact, in 1999, Bernard Thibault, leader of the railroad strikes of 1995, was knighted by the Party. But the CGT has since cut the cord – although it has recently reversed its policy by calling for neutrality vote against Nicolas Sarkozy, half-word, for Jean-Luc Melenchon, supported by the PCF. "The choice for the head of the CGT is no longer imported the PCF. The candidates are positioning themselves and there are strategic issues that did not exist before, "says the specialist. The choice between a trade union opposition (Prigent line) or negotiation (Aubin option).

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The bubbly TV on fire from new technologies and social networks. The 49th edition of MIPTV, in Cannes held until April 4, devotes the contents that are written in all media. Alongside the traditional major broadcasters and producers, and large sizes that are declining international dramas, new actors impose their brand to go international programs.

Some supply the market of their web series on YouTube. This is the case of Machinima, a specialist online game that has received 166 million unique visitors per month. Six million visitors flocked to her YouTube channel to watch the miniseries Torn Apart, promoting the series The Walking Dead, American producer of AMC. Some, like Bite Me, are available on the Web even the luxury of hearing superior to that of mainstream TV productions. Enough to convince the studio Lion's Gates to partner with Machinima to create the second season of Bite Me This time for television.

"The first impact of the Internet, said Laurine Garaude, director of the TV division of Reed Midem is an explosion of supply and a real competition of brands to offer original content, including among the studios." Other example, the format "Fashion Star", produced by the American Electus, which will be promoted today by the supermodel Elle Macpherson. The day after the mailing of this contest fashion collection, it will be available in stores. "It is an immense field for brands, said Laurine Garaude yet. The impact of social networks that takes precedence and can bring back the viewers on the live program at a time when we only speak delinearization. "

Dating, coaching and quiz

This influence is not limited to the porosity between the different screens. It also infuses the TV trends. "Never, classic television has done more heavily loaded with programs promoting social cohesion, authenticity and humor. All concepts summed up in one, in the jargon of television: the feel good, "smiles Bertrand Villegas, one of the leaders of The Wit, the agency expertise TV programs worldwide. "This color is found in the mechanical as the most popular are the talent competition, issues of dating, coaching, or quizzes," he says.

No more coaches and welcome to the tips of friends tend "peer to peer". As "Coach Diaries," which is to dispense with the psy to trust a panel of citizens who provides analysis and advice. A concept devised by the Israeli Armoza, who has a contract with TF1 first glance, especially. Same concept for the pilot "Desperate Neighbors," distributed by All3Media, which is to entrust a family in crisis in its neighborhood.

Side talent contest and quiz, Endemol has two formats that should take over "Money Drop": "The Code", a complex game mechanics whose aim is to discover the code of a credit card, but also "Sounds Familiar Your Face," a singing competition, inspired by the videos posted on YouTube by users and tubes containing the stars of yesterday and today.

MIPTV but also confirms the tendency of large international co-productions and the fusion of talent from the small and big screen. Beside the series Titanic, produced by ITV, which will be the great event of this edition, the red carpet will be occupied by Top of the Lake, performed by Jane Campion (The Piano) and produced by Sundance Channel and BBC2, or Hit and Miss yet, FremantleMedia, with actress Chloe Sevigny. For its part, TF1 was the event on Sunday with the announcement of the series The Great, distributed by SevenOne and starring Jean Reno star.

 

The seventeen countries of the euro reached an agreement Friday to raise 500 to 800 billion euros their "firewall" against financial crisis. Germany has dropped the ballast, but the compromise is far from meeting the expectations of the European Commission, IMF and OECD.

The envelope, which represents a theoretical capacity of loans, includes three components: 500 000 000 000 ahead for the European Stability Mechanism (SPM) which will be launched in July, 200 billion already committed by the temporary fund established in 2010 (EFSF) and 100 billion in loans already spent or pledged various EU.

This elaborate structure – and perhaps questionable because it mixes future and past – allows everyone to say it held its position. For Germany, it was essential to avoid having to raise the ceiling of the MES to avoid another vote in the Bundestag. Wolfgang Schäuble, the favorite in the race for the presidency of the Eurogroup, but agreed to keep alive a year for the EFSF, which temporarily inflate the pot.

In contrast, those that grew as the French Baroin a figure of around 1 trillion, did not get satisfaction. Discussed in Copenhagen, the project of an additional tranche of 240 billion to be used "in exceptional circumstances" has disappeared from the final declaration of the Eurogroup. Here too, Berlin has been successful. But the question remains the strength of the new "firewall" in the event of a major financial accident, involving, for example Spain or Italy.

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It was too dry in southern Europe. Particularly in Portugal, where the month of February was the driest in 80 years, and Spain. "The disturbances do not pass. (…) We are witnessing an upsurge in forest fires and streams experiencing flow rates up to 80% below normal, "noted recently The Weather Channel. "No improvement, or real return of rain is expected," worries do we, as the drought could lead to "catastrophic harvest."

Red indicates a severe drought.

 

They are few policies with which we can talk about management. Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who before the policy has worked in marketing, communication and management, talk forever about human relationships at work. Young job seekers, future trainees … failing to have stemmed the unemployment, the former Prime Minister gives good advice on how to pass a job interview: ask the right distance, to help engage the recruiter to know you, know not to get choked by the employer too talkative, manifesting his "want to want" suggests the likes of Johny.

And Jean-Pierre Raffarin also gives an interesting perspective on the art of interviewing the wrong spot, "he talks too much and is too hasty cash advance to savings account." Raffarin knows whereof he speaks and knows well. Author of an autobiography, I will walk always affect (Flammarion), he can create a climate in an interview even if we found a little worried when we arrived. A few days before the meeting of the candidate Sarkozy Villepinte, we question the assessment of managerial policies based on criteria. He does not believe it. In politics "you are good you stay, you're bad you're leaving," but adds "the problem is that voters sometimes has a very special notice."

 

The state reform was one of the major projects of the quinquennium. In this reform called General Policy Review (RGPP), launched by Nicolas Sarkozy, the non-replacement of a retirement of two in the public service was the single most iconic. RGPP but is also creating employment Pole, the merger of Taxation and Treasury Bercy or the removal of small courts.

In a report released Tuesday, the OECD welcomes this approach. It considers the RGPP as "an important step in modernizing the State in France" and believes that our country is now in "a relatively privileged position" in relation to others. The international organization noted that the RGPP has a 6.4% drop in employment in the State Civil Service between 2007 and 2012 (or 150,000 job cuts), which had never happened before in the Hexagon.

Method of systematic cuts

Nevertheless, the OECD, France must go further. The process cost optimization should become permanent. The organization advocates to develop a method of systematic cuts, setting an annual goal of lower costs – staff and others – by department.

For this, the future government will have to better communicate with officials. For today, the cost reduction is not part of the culture of public service, according to the OECD. RGPP was seen as temporary. It has not attracted the membership of the employees. "There is a gap between the feeling of the effort made by the agents and the amount of the reforms on the one hand, and budget savings from the other," wrote the report.

In fact, the savings should only reach 15 billion by 2013. This is small compared to a deficit of 136.5 billion in 2010. But that is because the RGPP was limited to a restructuring of the state.

To reduce its debt, France must now carry out a review of its social policies and its tax loopholes. The OECD also asked to set up a RGPP for local communities. "The organization and governance of local government – characterized by many levels of local, a very large number of common, yet significant presence of the state and level of employment increasing rapidly – are expensive and need to be rationalized, "we read in the report. It would be clearer!

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For the Union of the national daily press (SPQN), the situation is bitter while 20 million French people consult each month at least one site of news releases, and that six of the seven major news sites are from the print media, newspaper companies have only marginally redistributive mechanisms of value, nonetheless very real in other areas of content creators, such as audiovisual, cinema or music. As revealed Tuesday Les Echos, the SPQN decided to take his pilgrim's staff and meet in the coming weeks the different candidates in the presidential election to submit their proposals.

€ 150 million

Teams to campaign, the union will submit two proposals. First, to extend the online press the VAT rate reduced to 2.1%, which already applies to the press. Then, a mechanism of redistribution of the value generated by the digital divide between market players (ISPs, portals info, search engines and manufacturers) and publishers of online news. According to the calculations of the firm Kurt Salmon, the manna that could be levied for the benefit of the press would represent 140 to 150 million euros a year. The idea would be to pay all the contents of the press in line for their contribution to the value generated by the purchase of equipment (PCs, smartphones, tablets …) for their contribution to the value of Internet subscriptions.

"For ten years, newspapers have made massive investments in the digital to win the battle of the Internet audience, says Marc Feuillée, president and CEO of SPQN group of Figaro. They have contributed to the rise of the digital economy while at the same time, value creation has benefited almost exclusively to technology players. "

A social issue

Kurt Salmon has calculated that 72% including news headlines highlighted on the Google News come from actors of the press online, against 28% who are from groups or audiovisual news agencies (AFP, Reuters …), and 30 to 40% of the news page of the portal Orange are also from news sites.

Considerable weight but that is not reflected in the value created by the digital economy, estimated at 10 billion euros per year (excluding equipment), revenue from digital media and had only 280 million euros in 2010, including 235 million in advertising and $ 45 million through the sale of content. 

The SPQN sees the opening of this debate a social issue, the press being the source of the media loop, that is to say, the first source of reliable information from other media, and therefore a essential to the general interest in the information society. "If we want to maintain quality information, it must regulate the digital marketplace," says Marc Feuillée.

Newsagents will choose their offer

The new Regulatory Authority for the distribution of the press (ARDP) makes his first arbitration. It just made enforceable reform of the assortment, which should allow 29,000 newsagents to choose some of the titles they wish to sell in order to respond more adequately to the demand of their customers. Adopted in November 2010 by the Supreme Council of the Courier Press (MHCP), this measure was blocked by a lawsuit from small publishers. The ARDP should also decide in the coming weeks on the adoption Tuesday by the MHCP new rules on notice of a transfer of securities to another email. According to the winning proposal, the notice period could now be conditioned on the seniority of the business relationship between the publisher and messaging and volume represented by the security involved in the transfer.

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The explosion of the energy bill of Japan had dropped to half the current account surplus of the Archipelago in 2011, to 96.2 billion euros, its lowest level in fifteen years, due to massive purchases of foreign natural gas to offset the collapse of nuclear power after the disaster of Fukushima. The earthquake and tsunami of 11 March also contributed to plunge the country into recession with a GDP (gross domestic product) by 0.9% last year (- 2.3% between October and December). He had already declined by 1% in 2008 and 5.5% in 2009 before rebounding by 4.4% in 2010.

Although the Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda, provides that "the recovery process generates powerful forces that encourage innovation," companies are facing a global demand weakened by the problems of the United States and the debt crisis in Europe. In the last quarter of 2011, Japan's exports fell 11.9%. They must also cope with low consumption. It grew only 1.2% between October and December, three times the previous quarter. But they also have problems of logistics and outs of their supply chains.

Between the earthquake and the end of last year, the government did adopt three additional budget of nearly € 180 billion to fund reconstruction. A fourth envelope of 25 billion was passed earlier this month. "But the time to accumulate and many projects could be delayed," warns an analyst at JPMorgan Securities Japan payday loans with no fax.

Vietnam in focus

Suddenly, the Archipelago is increasingly tempted by offshoring. He did it in Thailand but the floods of last year asking him problems today. Also turns he now to Vietnam. Last year more than 200 Japanese companies have come to settle there, investing 1.4 billion euros in the country. They are driven not only by the slowdown of the Japanese economy, but the yen, by rising production costs in China and a population of working age is decreasing. Despite this, the government is optimistic. He believes that Japan's GDP is expected to rebound by 2.2% during the next fiscal year (from April 2012 to March 2013). He stressed that the rising prices of oil products and coal has slowed from 10.6% in December to 5.6% in January, to contain the growth of wholesale prices 0.5% on a year.

The State also relies on consumer confidence which rose 1.1 points in January for the second consecutive month. He adds that orders for capital goods, down 7.1% in December and down 2.6% in the fourth quarter are expected to rebound by 2.3% between January and March 2012.

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Japan met on Monday and Tuesday in Tokyo, seems to follow suit. It should indeed leave interest rates unchanged in the country.

 

The sudden blizzard that hit on France warms accounts Damart. Sales of underwear Thermolactyl, the fiber's flagship brand, jumped with negative temperatures: + 255% in distance selling and + 155% in-store. This is much better than other products that have received a boost from the cold wave. According Climpact, sales of creams have increased by 86%, while soups recorded an increase of 25%.

At Darmart, we do not shout victory, however. This excellent performance indeed occur after a mild winter, and consequently very bad for business of specialist cold weather. The brand claims to have suffered less Roubaix this winter too lenient than the competition. "February sales have not saved the season, because we can not recover in two weeks what is lost in three months, said Christine Pageot, executive director of Damart France. But however much it helps start the spring season. "

Each degree Celsius worth its weight in gold in the hot underwear. "From late September, the correlation is very strong between temperature and sales of underwear," says Christine Pageot. These flows especially in October and April, the lowest month, where sales have reached only the fifth best month, December.

Two new concepts to shop

Sales are very responsive to temperature: a drop of ten degrees can be doubled. "The weather and the trappings are flocking orders: the windshield of the car he must scratch, the first appearance of gels," says Christine Pageot.

The Thermolactyl, invented in 1953, still accounts for one quarter of sales of the brand (350 million euros last year). The fiber was invented street Dammartin Despature by three brothers, a family of clothiers based in Roubaix since 1850.

In a little less than sixty years, the garment house has changed. The plants are parties in Tunisia, the fiber has evolved into a more silky material and odorless, and lace patterns or trends were established.

If the distance selling is still the majority of sales (55%), the 80 stores in France are the subject of much attention. Two new concepts were launched in 2010 and 2011. First the Damart Sport, with a shelf lined underwear adapted to intensive sport or relaxation, fibers made from breathable or more drinks, designed for summer. Then the Happy D., specially dedicated to the senior client. The favorite of the sign, because it buys for the whole family. Five shops offer ready-to-wear in a style more suited to the "new senior". The early returns are positive. But it is too early to take stock: the new shops did not know the summer season. See you next winter

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Sources: Potentialpark