The government, through a message from the Prime minister, relieved by the minister for Economic Affairs has just announced the great lines of the economic policy to be followed during the next 18 months as it will be proposed to the Parliament and certainly approved. The reduction of the charges weighting on business will go on and in order to limit State and social expenditures deficits, social benefits, including pensions, child and tenant benefits will be, as a symbol, just increased by 0.3%. Just the minimum pension (less than 3% of the retired people) and the benefits for disable ...

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La publication par l’INSEE de sa première estimation de de la croissance de l’économie française au deuxième trimestre, 0,2%, a été mal accueillie sauf par le gouvernement qui persiste à penser, contre l’évidence, que sa politique est appropriée. Ce chiffre fait suite à une augmentation de la production également de 0,2% pour le premier trimestre. Un sérieux doute pèse ainsi sur la validité des prévisions des différentes institutions comme la Banque de France ou le FMI pour l’année entière, autour de 1,8%, et de la ...

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Just twenty years ago, France, for the first time won the soccer World Cup. Next Sunday, its team may win the right to have a second star on its shirt. 1998 victory contributed during a few years, to strengthen the country cohesion thanks to a team which gathered players with diverse origins : the “blacks”, the “whites” and the “beurs” coming from North Africa to which we could have added the “basks”, coming from Basque country. It was also given this success for a significant contribution to the strong economic growth France enjoyed until 2002, a result which has not been ...

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