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"It should stand on a cow so we can better see!" At the Salon of Agriculture, a crowd of onlookers quickly formed over the course of Nicolas Sarkozy, despite an early arrival more than expected Saturday morning. Instead of starting the tour at 9:30 am as originally indicated, Nicolas Sarkozy has surprised almost all journalists arriving one hour ahead.

Young contestants of agricultural schools, farmers horses, cattle, sheep and also butchers and florists … the president has sacrificed tradition and spent two hours in the aisles at the meeting of agricultural sector in deep trouble . After the walkabout, he announced new measures to help during a roundtable discussion with farmers.

"It must protect us against disasters"

Among the notable events of the morning, Nicolas Sarkozy held talks with Jean-Paul Rault, sheep farmer in the Vendee who lost almost all of his flock during the storm Xynthia. "I told him he should protect us against future catastrophes, because once again, I will, but not both," says the farmer of Walnut St. Radegund. Only were rescued sheep that was brought to Paris for the Salon.

"The president said he would not let us down, it would help us rebuild. And he would see us in Vendee, "says Jean-Paul Rault. The farmer said he was heartened by the presidential speech? "I have no a priori," he replies."We have seen figures for the help, we'll see what it will serve."

Video – flying over the farm of John Paul Rault after the passage of Xynthia:

More politics, the meat industry has questioned the head of state … about Greece. "He seemed surprised and not really know, but I asked him to be very vigilant on the Greek question: is our first export customer with 70,000 tonnes," explains Denis Sibille, president of Interbev, the inter-beef, mutton and horse. "The number of failures is very high and we refrain now to export, where a shortfall."

"Less talkative than President Chirac"

The exchange was more lively with the representative of the Federation Nationale Bovine (section FNSEA).Jean-Paul Fleury asked Nicolas Sarkozy less listen to his Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo, and arbitrate more often for his "excellent minister of Agriculture, Bruno Lemaire. "The arbitrage is my job, I do those I do," replied the president.

As tradition dictates, the President has offered a basket of food to stand craftsmen butchers. A prime rib and leg of lamb. "Just as with Chirac, I am sure that the meat was consumed, as with Nicolas Sarkozy, I'm not really sure," said Jean Claude Obriot however, the vocational school of the Butcher."And then he is less talkative than President Chirac," remembers the butcher who hosts the Salon chairs for ten years.

Just curious still, Nicolas Sarkozy was investigated to know what wood was made of sticks Youth Farm School of Laurent Sainte Marie in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques. In Hazelwood, they replied. A medium hard wood, semi-flexible, especially light. Ideal for tapping the side of the animals and move them forward.

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A territorial policy of social housing, that is to say building in priority areas in deficit, such is the ambition on Wednesday by Secretary of State for Housing. Two days after the publication of an alarming report of the Fondation Abbé Pierre on poor housing, Benoist Appearing presented the draft state for 2010, namely to contribute up to 4.7 billion euros to finance 140,000 housing, half in Ile-de-France, Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, the zones "tense". The program is ambitious, even by the balance of 2009 when 120,000 housing units were built "three times more than in 2000, the ministry said.

4 billion tax form

But if the Social Union for Housing which manages public housing can not approve a policy that it "calls for two years, is on the question of financing the rub.The state budget provides for the payment of 624 million euros to public housing agencies as aid to the stone. The rest of the state aid-more than 4 billion-will take the form of tax incentives (VAT, property tax, preferential interest rates). "The $ 624 million is less than 660 million euros achieved in 2009, and far from the 800 million budgeted in 2008," laments Pierre Quercy, general delegate of the Social Union for Housing which manages public housing best payday advance . "We're going to build a priority in areas of shortage, and therefore more expensive, but with less money," says the delegate general who believes a more realistic assessment of the number of homes built to last 100,000.

At the Department, any accusation of declining level of aid is denied."The effort of the State is not limited to 624 million euros of aid to the stone, take into account the full support of 4.7 billion euros, which will build 140,000 homes social, said the firm Benoist Appeared. Construction or purchase. As announced Tuesday the secretary of state, public housing agencies will be able to acquire any vacant units to turn them into housing. Another idea supported by the Social Union for Housing, but according to Pierre Quercy will face the same problems of funding. "We estimate that 350 million euros of state aid would be needed to buy 10,000 housing units in the tense areas," said the delegate general. What largely begin the budget.

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The French have always been more crickets and ants that the crisis has reinforced their distrust of credit. Statistics released yesterday by the FSA, the association of financial companies show a net decline of credit extended by institutions.

Credits distributed to households fell from 13.3% in 2009, which represents the largest drop recorded in 45 years time tracking statistics. In 2008, the decline was 2.8%. Last year, special schools and have provided 38 billion euros of new funds, against 43.8 billion a year earlier.

The downturn that began in autumn 2008 was accelerated until spring 2009 (-12.4% in the first quarter and -18.7% in the second) before slowing down from the was (-16% and -5.5% in the fourth quarter).

These are personal loans which have fallen the most, specialized institutions have distributed 22.8% lower than a year earlier. The revolving loan decreased by 11.2%.

The auto loans are better off: they are down only 4% over the year and jumped over the last two months of the year. The scrapping bonus has pushed the French to change their car which is reflected in the credits: they increased from 15.7% last quarter. Finally, funding of home appliances (consumer electronics and furniture) were melted from 13.3% in 2009.

These figures may be explained by a smaller French appetite for credit, but also by increasing the rate of refusal of certain institutions (Cetelem number one industry in this case) and by increased competition from traditional banking networks.Banks operate more than before because the customer relationship by offering consumer loans. Member firms of the FSA are in fact nearly 60% of consumer credit and almost all renewable credits.

Proponents maintain flirtation with the mystery on its exact size, but with over 800 meters high, the Burj Dubai will have no trouble to climb to the summit since it exceeds by at least 300 meters above the current building in the world, Taipei 101 Taiwan (508 meters). The question is whether this will be the last great Pharaonic site long before the emirate in the Middle East crisis.

The story goes that the emir of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum, had returned to its initial project promoters with poor 90 floors. "We thought little of beating the record held by the Taipei 101 tower. But the client asked us each to go higher, but we set limits, "says architect Bill Baker, the firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago, developer of the skyscraper.

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Coup de théâtre to the Constitutional Council. Tuesday night is no less a pillar of the 2010 budget that the Sages retoque in deciding to cancel the carbon tax in its entirety. In their decision, the constitutional judges – seized last week by the Parliamentary Socialists – have ruled that the law created too many exemptions, which is "contrary to the objective of fighting against global warming" and creates an inequality in tax."Less than half the emissions of greenhouse gas emissions would have been subject to contributions to carbon, because many of these exemptions, they argued.

In detail, the Constitutional Council has stressed that "were totally exempt contribution of carbon emissions from power plants generating electricity, emissions from industrial sites in 1018 the most polluting (refineries, cement, coke …) "emissions from aviation" or "those of the public transport of passengers by road. "These exemptions have led to only 93% of emissions from industrial sources, excluding fuel, are exempt from carbon contribution," according to the text.The tax would have "focused on fuel and heating products that are only one source of emission of carbon dioxide.

An alternative is proposed by Fillon January 20

Shortly after the publication of the decision of the Elders, Matignon has announced that Francois Fillon presented January 20 in Council of Ministers a new scheme taking "full account of the observations of the Constitutional Council. The prime minister maintains, however, that this contribution is needed to guide the behavior of firms and households in terms of energy consumption and reduce emissions of greenhouse gas emissions. "The cabinet of Jean-Louis Borloo for its part indicated that the Minister of Ecology and Sustainable Development Wednesday react to this defeat.

For its part, the Socialist Party – through its National Secretary for the Environment, Laurence Rossignol – did not expect to qualify the decision of the constitutional judges of "heavy defeat for the president. It is both the sanction of a working method that is to do everything in a hurry and a series of announcement effects. For the federation France Nature Environment (FNE), a cancellation is "catastrophic." "The carbon tax is clearly in agony.Copenhagen has shown that political will was not enough in the fight against climate change and today is the leverage that tax is lowered, "lamented spokesman FNE, Arnaud Gosse.

A measure dear to the Head of State

Wanted by Nicolas Sarkozy, the tax, renamed "carbon contribution" by the Senate, was a key measure of the proposed 2010 budget. In total, it would have resulted in 4.1 billion euros in tax revenue next year, including 2.2 billion paid by households. The Head of State himself had described as a "revolutionary tax" and a "major shift" to "lasting change" behavior of the French. The tax was aimed at encouraging individuals to reduce their CO2 emissions by applying the energy consumption of households and businesses, with compensation to individuals.For businesses, the carbon tax would replace the business tax, which was abandoned, however, been validated by the Constitutional Council.

According to calculations by INSEE, the entry into force – scheduled for 1 January – would be to effect a general price increase of 0.3% in first quarter 2010, an increase of about 4 cents per liter gasoline pump. Set at 17 euros per tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2), but she had raised important challenges left, but right where some denounced the introduction of a new tax.

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This year, 43% of the French plan to reduce their Christmas spending, according to an Ipsos poll conducted for France Bleu.

45% of respondents reported crop priority in their budget gifts while the proportion remained unchanged at meals. 37% of respondents also believe in spending less on decor, followed by clothing (36%) and holidays (35%).

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Tax revenues of local governments will increase substantially in 2009. This is announced by the Directorate General of Local Authorities (DGCL), in a note released Wednesday. The DGCL estimated that the four direct taxes tax, residence tax and taxes on land and buildings not built should bring $ 71 billion to local governments. The increase in local taxes would be 8.1%, nearly double the increase of 2008 (+4.4%). This increase is explained by buoyant tax bases (+4.7%) and a significant increase in rates (+3.4%). This increase affects all communities but especially the departments and municipalities. "The departments have their rates increased more than other communities," said the DGCL, considering the increase of revenues to 11.4%, including 6.3% due to higher rates.Conversely, "the development of overall tax revenue from other communities still more effect than the base rate effect".

According to the notes, business tax, hotly debated in the context of discussions on the 2010 budget, expected to yield 31.3 billion euros, the housing tax 16.5 billion, the tax on built property 22 3 billion and that the undeveloped 880 million. Local taxes are 39% of operating revenue of local governments.

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