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In the daily press Lorraine, Nicolas Sarkozy stood this weekend against the attitude of union CFDT ArcelorMittal Florange. "As for the permanent of the CFDT, they betray the trust of employees, has accused President. They came to insult me ​​and try to break my campaign headquarters. Do not confuse the employees of ArcelorMittal, that I will not let go, and trade unionists who are misleading their members by making policy instead of defending the interests of employees. "

The position of the Inter, which includes the CFDT but also the CGT and FO, was clearly inflected in February, when ArcelorMittal's management confirmed that the blast furnaces would restart Florange does not in the second quarter. February 16, Edward Martin, representative of the CFDT in Florange, stated the following: "Florange be the nightmare of government." Similarly, the Inter visited March 15 at the headquarters of candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, although Edward Martin rejects absolutely any act of violence.

"Our members are worried"

Proof of this political positioning, "the CFE-CGC withdrew from the Inter Florange mid-March, because our union wants to totally apolitical," said Francois Pagano, CFE-CGC Section Florange. "Our members are also very concerned about this policy orientation," he says again.

Concern that does not detract from the representativeness of the CFDT and the Inter Florange. In the last elections, in January 2011, the CFDT has confirmed its position as the union on the site. And three members of the Inter unions represent no less than 75% of the vote with a turnout of over 90%!

"On Steel"

Their attitude now very policy may be explained partly by the proximity of the presidential election but also by the discouragement with the government of some trade unionists, still marked by the permanent closure of Gandhinagar in 2009 business card. Result: claims very close to the program of Francois Hollande: "We want the government to ban any dismantling of the site and seeks an industrial partner to take it back," he explains, while participating in a "march of steel ", which covers about twenty employees and must lead them in Paris on April 6.

Except that Lakshmi Mittal, chairman of the steel group, is not this in mind closing the entire site. If restarting the blast furnace is in no way guaranteed, ArcelorMittal announced, as reiterated Nicolas Sarkozy, 17 million euro investment in the coking plant, upstream of blast furnaces, and finishing, downstream. Ads that perpetuate these activities for several years.

The risk of claims is that they are too political cons-productive futures. The example of Liege, whose furnaces have permanently closed at the end of last year, is not reassuring. A report commissioned by the Walloon region and explained earlier this year that "unions have adopted an approach almost exclusively protest, based on the challenge of any permanent changes, the systematic use of the strike, protest against any change in method work (…) which discouraged all the intentions of successive shareholders. "

A risk which seem aware, however stakeholders Lorraine: "There were only four days of blocking the site, precise and Edward Martin. And the plant has resumed normal operations for several weeks. "An information confirmed by ArcelorMittal.

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In this book the day of 12 April 1992, there were a death and birth. While journalists of The Five announced the "definitive interruption of picture and sound," Euro Disney executives were celebrating in front of cameras and music from around the world the opening of Disneyland Paris, an amusement park of 51 hectares. The happy event welcomes all the French and much of their European neighbors. It must be said that the project, past six years in the hands of the Prime Minister at the time, Laurent Fabius, then his successor Jacques Chirac, had had time to stir curiosity. If the creation, California's first park Mickey (Walt Disney himself) was in 1955 and the Walt Disney World was born in Orlando in 1971, for our old continent, it was a novelty.

Twenty years later, the "baby" is all grown up but his fans do not get tired payday loan. With over 250 million registered users since its opening, Disneyland Paris, with its 57 attractions, its 62 shops, 58 restaurants and seven hotels, has become the first tourist destination européenne.Dès April 1, they should still be Many are not rushing. For if Disney has demonstrated his expertise with regard to birthdays, for 20 years, he predicted great. Great. (Mickey) Maousse. Night show revolutionary, unprecedented parade, being revamped, new decorations … many surprises imagined by the creators of the new company to delight guests and regulars. "This anniversary we celebrate the progress, ensures Philippe Gas, Euro Disney president since 2008. And we want to do with all those who have made Disneyland with us. "

The castle of Sleeping Beauty turned

"An explosion of magic, light and color"

Friday morning, Francois Fillon, in turn, Francois Hollande accused of lying. The president-candidate Nicolas Sarkozy had criticized Thursday his Socialist rival of "lying day and night" to the French. "It is unfortunately true," added the Prime Minister on Friday morning on RTL.

"I could still hear Francois Hollande said yesterday it had 70 billion euros in gifts to the rich: nobody is able to document this assertion, it's just a lie!" Launched Fillon. "When asked where socialists are these gifts, they are indiscriminately business tax, as if it was a gift to the richest, the VAT on restaurants, overtime …" he listed. He said that "when one wants to be president, you can not base his campaign on lies."

"The tradition of the Socialist Party is to be always left in opposition and governing Liberal rather, on pensions, privatization, taxation," he has pointed out, also calling the candidate of PS being a "conservative defender acquired," which "offers only to keep things as is".

"It is never a mistake to debate its identity"

Asked about the tax shield, Francois Fillon, who like other leaders of the majority is trying to fight against the image of "President of the rich" whose left dons the head of state, held that it this was not an "error in the context of pre-crisis." But it was "inappropriate for a decision from the moment the crisis led us to increase a number of taxes, eliminate a number of tax loopholes and the tax shield which could render all of these unjust decisions" .

The prime minister also regretted the turn of the debate on national identity, while maintaining that "it is never a mistake to debate its identity."

We "always makes mistakes, especially over a period of five years," he admitted. "I told myself it was probably too reluctant to engage the lower cost of labor to be closer to Germany and its competitiveness," he reiterated, referring particularly to the reform of the VAT called "social" as the government finally decided to conduct in the home straight. "We met a number of blocks that have led us to make reforms less ambitious than we wanted," said the Prime Minister.

"The referendum is not a goal, it is a way"

It has justified the willingness of Nicolas Sarkozy to hold referendums if re-elected to, "on some strategic issues", to "overcome these obstacles." "The referendum is not a goal, it's a way. This is not a dirty word in democracy, "said the head of government. "In some cases, simply brandishing the possibility that the intermediate bodies find ways and means of the agreement."

Returning to the idea of ​​a referendum on the unemployed, Francois Fillon said that it was to ask the French if they approve a bill allowing the transfer of 30 billion euros of vocational training to training for job seekers.

Avoid a default of Greece

While a second bailout of Greece is in loopback, the Prime Minister said that "playing the default" of the country would be "grossly irresponsible", recalling that there was "a commitment of the Greek Parliament, of all Greek political forces to these efforts. " "Bankers have agreed to relinquish 70% of loans made to the Greeks. Now we need Europeans to their promises, "he said. The effort required to Greece "are not much larger than those that are the Portuguese, Spaniards or Italians, that they do not burn their capital," he added, referring to the violence that erupted in recent days in Athens.

"We must exclude" Vanneste

On Christian Vanneste, François Fillon expressed the need "exclude" the member of the UMP after her recent statements denying the deportation of French homosexuals during World War II. The member, already known for slippage homophobic, could be ruled Wednesday of the UMP and lose his inauguration to legislation. "We need to exclude the statements he made and we must stop these controversies that hurt entire categories of the French population and divisive," said the Prime Minister.

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Statistics show every day a little more clearly the growing problem of financing faced by banks in the euro area. The phenomenon is not confined to institutions based in the peripheral countries, but won the heart of Europe, reflecting the closer and closer bond between the state debt crisis and the situation of the banking system.

To date, the year 2011, European banks had to repay 888 billion dollars to creditors (all types of bonds combined), but they could borrow 744 billion dollars over the period, reveal Figures released by the firm Dealogic. A gap of nearly $ 150 billion that masks a number of phenomena. On the one hand, banks that can accumulate "cash payday loans direct lenders."On the other, those, more numerous, which are structurally borrowers must find ways to bridge the gap between what they need and what they can take to prevent the liquidity crisis, that is, ie the default.

The first solution is the European Central Bank, which opened more widely its counters. Heavily used by institutions Greek, Irish and Portuguese, these facilities are also becoming critical to institutions whose country of origin still have access to markets. Spanish banks borrowed 86.2 billion euros at the ECB at the end of October (7 billion more than at the end of September).

Not everything has dragged on last night in Brussels. From 20 hours, the heads of state of the 27 EU countries have approved the launch of a large recapitalization of European banks, encrypted by the industry policeman to 106 billion euros. The principle was in fact acknowledged the last Saturday by finance ministers.

106 billion euros. This figure results from the examination of bank balance sheets after taking into account the loss of value to the end of September of sovereign debt Greek, Irish, Portuguese, Spanish or Italian, but also gains recorded on their German or British counterparts. On this basis, regulators assessed for each bank the way to go to 9% of regulatory capital ratio ("core tier 1" prudential banking jargon). This objective will be achieved on June 30 at the latest.And the addition is particularly heavy for Greek banks, of course (30 billion euros), but also in Spain (26 billion) and Italy (14.8 billion). In France, the bill is estimated at 8.8 billion, Germany at 5.1 billion.

A new showdown promises

This total was largely anticipated by the market and the banks themselves. However, a new showdown between the industry and promises to the authorities. "We ask banks to recapitalize. Not to cut their balance sheets, "argued a senior Wednesday ahead of the summit. Number of facilities provided to achieve because much of the effort flopped the sails, that is to say, by limiting their activities consume the most capital. But Europe is concerned about the impact of these strategies on the distribution of credit, especially in the east where the industry is largely owned by groups of Western Europe.The Council of the Union has insisted on its vigilance on this point. And regulators have developed their doctrine accordingly. End of June 2012, they calculate the ratio of each bank according to its balance sheet at September 30, 2011 …. It is therefore too late to play on the variable of total assets. Only an increase in capital will reach the famous 9%.

Putting aside the benefits

To avoid making capital increases in market conditions given the state of detestable share price values ​​the industry or, worse, to use the state to bail out the banks who can n ' have only one option: to put their profits in reserve, probably in much higher proportions for use. This means that the shareholders of the banks concerned will receive little or no dividend next year.Politicians hide it just, that sacrifice is almost as an objective.

All has not been lost to the banks. The Council of the EU, the European Banking Authority, promised to lay the foundation for coordinated action to help them take on the market. The sovereign debt crisis cut investors' appetite for foreign bank debts. However, they will raise more than € 600 billion next year. The European Central Bank has opened the floodgates of funding up to a year. But it can do much more as the industry needs stable funding, so many years. Government guarantees could be implemented.

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The UMP deputies know that the growth forecast (1.75%) on which the draft budget for 2012 is revised downwards, and a new train of savings 5-7000000000 necessary, in addition to 11 billion already planned for next year. "The 2012 budget is credible, but it can be denied by a significant slowdown in growth," Analysis Louis Giscard d'Estaing. The Vice-Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Assembly recalls that "the time of the government of Lionel Jospin, it was the logic of the cicada, while in Germany Gerhard Schröder had imposed a cure without reduction of wage restraint working time, in line with the ant. But the wind is coming … "says the deputy of Puy de Dome, paraphrasing the fable of La Fontaine.Vice President of the National Assembly warned the Socialists: "Those who would maintain the idea that there is room for maneuver in the reuse of public spending, as does Francois Hollande, would directly threaten the notation France and our ability to deleverage. "

However, Louis Giscard d'Estaing is convinced that there is still food for thought in the financing of 35 hours. He will file an amendment in the bill funding the Social Security (PLFSS) for further reduce the limit on exemptions from employer contributions on wages at 1.5 times the minimum wage (currently against 1.6). Which would represent just over one billion euros in savings, if the measure comes into force on 1 January. He even suggested to lower the ceiling to 1.4 times the minimum wage in July 2012 to "give companies time to adjust."The UMP also suggests to "a general movement of the plane of the allocations to the operators of the state" by reducing them to 3% in 2012 No teletrak payday loan.

"Do not replace two staff on three"

In this area, Hervé Mariton (UMP, Drôme) also proposes to "ease the regulations that impact cost." Other proposals of the Liberal "not to replace two of three officials" and "examining investments less profitable," particularly in the area of ​​infrastructure. "Do not panic about short-term savings. We will be judged on the strength and seriousness of a savings plan in the long term, "said Mariton. Special Rapporteur of the mission work jobs, Chantal Brunel (UMP, Seine-et-Marne) will propose to leave the tax deduction on home jobs "all leisure activities and relaxation."Isabelle Vasseur (UMP, Aisne), Rapporteur of the Finance Committee on Social Security Financing Bill, will propose this afternoon the establishment of "prevention, source of major savings in health" she assures.

The former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Jean Arthuis think we need to "reduce the amount of grants to local authorities" and "to lower executive compensation operators of the state." Former budget minister, Dominique Bussereau is more cautious: "We are still on the bone. The revision of public policies (RGPP) was very effective, so that the state is under-Box at the local level, "says he.

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The debt crisis that shook the euro area, the French deep mine. This is for 79% of them, the crisis "the worst" in recent years, according to a poll Ifop for the Journal du Dimanche. Faced with the economic and social situation of France, 53% of respondents said they were "rebels," while 29% are "resigned." A resignation which probably explains why the movement of "outraged" that began in Spain last spring and has spread across Europe and to the United States, failed to France.

The French are indeed very pessimistic. Only 4% of them believe in a crisis within the next six months. Nearly a majority (46%), however, do not expect improvement until 2014. "This survey highlights the malaise of the French," said Frederic Dabi, director of the division of opinion Ifop."For them, this is a serious crisis which they do not see the exit and on which policies can not be weighed." However, they are preparing for 57% of the "painful and difficult measures." They are also willing to make sacrifices, including cutting costs in their "comfort" and in their holiday budget, the study said.

When asked about the causes of the crisis, 52% of French people point the finger at the role of financial markets. Far behind, the government (26%), banks (15%), EU (10%), the French as a whole (6%), emerging (5%) and businesses (1%) are also considered partially responsible for the current crisis. "Paradoxically, while their commitment to the EU is often tenuous, the French for more Europe," Frederic Dabi analysis.As proof, they say they support the creation of a European Ministry of Economy.

Theme of the presidential election

As European leaders gather in Brussels on Sunday for a coordinated response to the crisis, the French have already an idea of ​​what the state could do 63% of them believe the government should take an interest in banks, either by becoming the majority shareholder of the establishment or nationalization. Despite their concern, 23% of respondents would prefer the state to intervene simply abstain. Maybe they think that the French economy can only suffer, as the government prepares to revise downwards its growth forecast for 2012 still set at 1.75%."Part of the public continues to believe that when dealing with Greece, it does not deal with French," says Pierre Giacometti, advisor opinion of the President of the Republic, in the columns of world.

Yet a few months before the presidential election, the crisis in the euro area will be the theme of the campaign. Nicolas Sarkozy will speak on the subject on television next Thursday, the day after the second EU summit is to say, once firm decisions have been taken. A key event with the French, while the popularity of the president is at half mast. "Even if the credits of some courage, nothing will be counted as long as there is a lack of visibility on the crisis," Pierre Giacometti analysis in Le Monde.

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How to help her children buy a home? Faced with soaring prices of the stone, more and more parents are wondering. For young people without a little help family, buy a property is often difficult. But the stone is more than ever the key to any well-constructed assets.

A DONATION as a financing

With the recent reform of the taxation of wealth, each parent can give full tax-free, but every ten years now, up to € 159,325 (reduction in force in 2011) to each child or € 318,650 for a couple . And if the child is an adult, he took advantage of an additional allowance of 31 € .865 (per parent under 80 years), allowing it in the end, even in the capital, to acquire a lovely pied-a -land …A strategy that offers the advantage of not "inflate" its own property portfolio, since it is your child immediately becomes sole owner of the property. Thus, it can allow parents to avoid the wealth tax if the value of their taxable net wealth falls short of 1.3 million euros, or to play down if it does not exceed 3 million euros.

This approach has its drawbacks, however. "A coming of age, the child who has de facto full ownership, may sell at any time, even if the parents object," says Brillat Michel, director of engineering heritage of the EU Financial France. To "block any attempt inappropriate," Louis Aussedat, notary Althémis Network, advises the inclusion in the deed of gift, and in the deed of purchase, a prohibition to alienate.This provision makes the sale to the agreement of parents.

Know that it is still quite possible to do this for the benefit of a minor, but we must in this case the approval of the guardianship court. And while the child is under 18, the slot is part of global real estate portfolio of his parents, with possible consequences in terms of ISF.

To a lesser extent, if you own a home savings plan, you can send your borrowing rights to your child, provided that it is itself the holder of such a plan (open for at least 3 years) no faxing pay day loans.Finally, give money in advance and not a property which you would already own, you can be exempt from land registration fee (0.715%).

SEND ACHETERET in a SCI

Here is the real estate company (SCI) who acquires the home and not you and / or your children directly, thus, again, to fund and pass more easily again. Parents are partners and own the shares of the SCI. A major advantage of this legal structure is its flexibility. A condition of relying on a notary or a lawyer to draft the statutes (beginning approximately € 2,000), all management schemes, or nearly so, may indeed be calmly considered: full or bare ownership only given to children, in whole or in part, etc..Parents may reserve the role of manager to get their hands on the decisions and procedures to meet the requirements (general meeting …). "In this configuration, the children, even adults, can not sell without your consent," said Gilles Etienne, Partner at Cyrus Council. The SCI can also borrow, even if minor children are involved. Only requirement: well set, with the help of a professional, their responsibilities vis-à-vis the debt and obtain the consent of the judge. Finally, the very existence of an ICS is not limited in time and value, as the designation of heritage that can be managed, is not fixed.

Scellier Act: rent-to-child

Parents who buy a home with the benefit of the tax reduction under the law Scellier can rent the apartment to their children.A three conditions: it must be the principal residence of the latter, that it is detached from the tax home of the parents (it is then placed on its side), finally, that actually pays the rent. ALSO READ: "Placement: the French have confidence in real estate

Constellium officials selected by employees angry at the site of Ham (Somme), where the group wants to remove aluminum processing positions 127 to 200, escaped in the night from Friday to Saturday, it was learned union source.

Leaders, sequestered since Friday morning, "ran away", taking advantage of a "diversion" at the time of the visit of an officer of the gendarmerie about 2 o'clock in the morning to rush into an opening cut in a grid Site of manufacture of aluminum profiles, told AFP Merel, CFTC trade union representative (majority).

Among them was the president of this event for the world Constellium, Paul Warton, the director for France, Hervé Pelcerf and two leaders of the site of Ham. A fifth person, human resources manager of the site originally chosen, was released in the meantime by the employees, saidMerelle.

"Employees are disgusted by the attitude of management"

"A police commander came to see us, it was a meeting, and during that time, on the other side of the factory, they made an operation by cutting the fence and access to Brush the path payday loans. They were out there, the union said. Employees are disgusted by the attitude of management, "he said.

"There is no dialogue.We received no concrete progress "while the unions are demanding the continuation of the site and support a project of re-industrialization of the site, which received the value of an investment fund, but was rejected by Constellium, has he lamented.

Employees of the site of Ham, threatened by a social plan announced in February eliminating 127 jobs due to the shutdown of one of the two presses aluminum site, had enjoyed a visit Friday morning to Paul Warton the challenge of the future of their factory.

After a stormy meeting, the employees had left the factory had closed the gates with padlocks, locking the five officers who were at that time in the office.

Friday night, an attempt to mediate the sub-prefect had failed, the employees felt that the management proposal, namely to meet for negotiations Monday in a hotel about thirty miles away, was merely dilatory.

The subject is no longer taboo. According to information of the German weekly Der Spiegel revealed this Sunday, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble would seriously consider bankruptcy of Athens, which could result in a departure from the country of the euro. While this information was then "denied by Germany," according to the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, it comes as markets are increasingly skeptical about a rescue of Greece, whose economy continues to worse. To this must be added the recent publications of economists, who now publish the "fictions" about the abandonment of the euro in Athens.

Natixis economist Patrick Artus has decrypted this scenario in an analysis published Monday.Taking into account the levels of debt, public deficits and outside Greece, he felt that Athens should depreciate its currency by 55% to balance its accounts. For now, the country will wipe a deep recession "for the next 18 months." It is characterized by a drop in growth and "a sharp decline in purchasing power" due to inflation, a consequence of the devaluation ("with a surge in import prices by about 30%" ) and monetization of public debt as the deficit persists. Similarly, the bank UBS in a note published evoked early September at a cost of 9,500 to 11,500 euros per person the first year of a release of the European currency.

A scenario "imaginable" and "sustainable"

According to Patrick Artus, this bad patch should then be completed at the end of "two or three years," with a resumption of growth.But for Europe, the bill would be salty, since leaving the euro, Greece should convert its debt in its new currency. Which would cost banks and institutional investors in the euro area some 166 billion euros, according to the devaluation held by Natixis.

An output of the euro remains of Athens "imaginable" and "sustainable", argues Patrick Artus. However, "[he] would not attempt the coup," he insists, for fear that the markets get the idea that other countries in difficulty, in turn, leave the single currency. With online focus, Italy and Spain (under perfusion of the ECB through a program to purchase obligation), the output of the euro is, this time, "not at all imaginable, "given the size of their economies.

Public expenditure or fiscal austerity?

For the economist, only a policy of renewed growth in Greece would head out of the water."We must stop this hard to Athens on the reduction of the deficit, he loses his temper. We are killing the country. Instead of giving him three years to reduce its deficit, which gives him six, and that helps companies to find the path of growth and competitiveness. "

A view shared by economist Nouriel Roubini, calling to reactivate the lever of public spending on pain of falling into a "Great Depression". Tance but Jürgen Stark, the former chief economist of the ECB, for whom "a fiscal stimulus would only increase the level of debt and would therefore only increase those risks further." Whatever decision the euro area, it will in all cases act quickly to prevent the "taboo" from turning into disasters scenarios.