http://sundialsnakes.com Opinions, Events, News Fri, 18 May 2012 23:04:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has a new president: the senior official of Indian origin Suma Chakrabarti, currently serving in the Ministry of Justice UK. The candidate endorsed by London was elected last night at the general meeting of the bank on the third ballot, with ... http://sundialsnakes.com/the-uk-wins-the-presidency-of-the-ebrd/   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 ... http://sundialsnakes.com/moscovici-europe-specialist-at-bercy/   The growth figure of France for the first quarter, published this morning, was highly anticipated: it sets the tone of the beginning of the quinquennium the new president. And with sluggish growth in the first three months of the year (after a small increase of 0.1% the last three ... http://sundialsnakes.com/france-does-not-record-growth-in-first-quarter/   Countries of the euro, torn on the path of growth and the cost of austerity, are virtually unanimous on Greece. All institutions and capital combined, the pressure is on Athens and a government may be found, but already called upon to choose between honoring its commitments and the abandonment ... http://sundialsnakes.com/the-athens-europe-puts-pressure/   Wednesday after the nationalization of the first network of savings banks Bankia, the Spanish government on Friday introduced a new banking reform, the second in less than three months. Madrid requires banks an additional provision of $ 30 billion. This will add to the 53 billion that should already ... http://sundialsnakes.com/spain-wants-to-protect-its-banks/   The new president, Francois Hollande, he will see in the figures released Thursday one more reason to fight to include a growth component in the European priorities? He will find anyway confirmation that we will have to roll up their sleeves for the activity to return to France. ... http://sundialsnakes.com/the-economy-is-showing-signs-of-fragility/ Presidential in major cities Paris | Leeds | Lyons | Toulouse | Leeds | Sheffield | Liverpool | Bordeaux | Lille http://sundialsnakes.com/a-new-tech-bubble/   France has not lost fiscal credibility in one night: the election of Francois Hollande suddenly does not make the country less able to finance its debt. While remembering not to take any "political position" is the message that wished to address the rating agency Standard & Poor's Monday morning, issuing ... http://sundialsnakes.com/debt-s-p-maintains-rating-of-france-after-the-election/   Finally! Nearly three years after entering into partnership, the Alliance Search, research online, the Microsoft and Yahoo! extend to Europe. The operation aims to add Internet searches conducted since those of Yahoo! Bing, the search engine from Microsoft. This partnership aims to bridge the delay between the ... http://sundialsnakes.com/the-advertising-deal-yahoo-and-microsoft-extended-in-france/   The lake has almost caught fire Thursday in Zurich. The traditional meeting of the shareholders of UBS has turned into a quiet but determined fight. The shareholders of the largest financial institution Swiss have strongly criticized the remuneration policy of the group, before voting 36% against it. ... http://sundialsnakes.com/banks-the-shareholder-revolt/