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Customers, equal access to Internet

Customers should they pay more for their Internet access if they over-consumption of online video? Providers of Internet access they can slow the rate of subscriber connections that download on the Internet? No and no, slice the report of the mission on the neutrality of the Internet and networks, introduced Wednesday by deputies Laure La Raudière (UMP) and Corinne Erhel (CBC) Economic Affairs Committee of the National Assembly.

Anxious to "protect the Internet" in its current form, they detail the nine principles that should ensure an open Internet or "neutral" for Internet users. Proposals trenches that contrast with the approach of a "traffic control" as proposed by the Minister of the Digital Economy, Eric Besson.

The cornerstone of this report is the inclusion in the law, the principle of net neutrality.Its definition could be slipped in the Postal and Electronic Communications: "Capacity for Internet users to send and receive the content of their choice, or use the services to run applications of their choice, connecting the equipment of their choice (…) with a transparent quality of service, adequate and nondiscriminatory. "

The report also estimates that only obligations of a judicial or security must justify blocking access to the Internet. Therefore, access to file sharing sites should not be blocked upstream. "The network would not be neutral if the peer-to-peer was degraded," say the MPs, because peer-to-peer is used both to pirate music or movies that innovation as Internet telephony Skype.This does not apply the law to hackers.

Participate in financing

It does not include the principle of network neutrality into law, it is still necessary authority to enforce it. This authority could be the policeman telecom Arcep or judge. The authority will be particularly responsible for preventing telecom operators to restrict access to Internet content. The report wants to "reserve the term Internet access to only deals with the principle of neutrality."Thus, a mobile operator could no longer sell "unlimited Internet packages" when consumption is limited for example 500 megabytes per month or if it refuses to install applications like Skype Internet telephony.

If equal access to the Internet and is ringfenced from the Internet side, it remains to ensure services for publishers – video platforms, social networks, connected TV applications. For the service providers, the report proposes to "further reflection" on their participation in the financing of the Internet and network investment. He claims such a precise study of the costs of increased traffic on the Internet.Where appropriate, the report recommends that a mechanism by which sites get the traffic (such as YouTube, Google, Facebook, Skype …) are involved in financing networks by paying a kind of right of way. "It would stabilize the cost sharing of the network … and could encourage smaller players content," the report said. But it's a story at the European level.

Renault is testing hundreds of electric cars

Renault will probably not expected to start full-scale experiment one hundred electric vehicles in such a climate of tension. But the real false espionage case was Thursday in every mind. The scandal "has not changed the electric vehicle program. Between what is said today and what we said six months ago, it has not changed our marketing plan for a single day, "was keen to stress Koskas Thierry, the owner of this activity Renault. His former assistant, Matthew Tenenbaum is one of three group executives wrongfully dismissed for industrial espionage.

The kickoff of this project called Save and targeted at Yvelines, near Paris, is an important step for the automaker, at 6 months of marketing its first cars running abreast.Renault is to launch Fluence sedan and minivan Kangoo electric version in the fall of 2011. The quadricycle Twizy is scheduled for the end of the year. Finally, Zoe, flagship of the range vehicle, is scheduled for fall 2012. Renault and its ally Nissan invested $ 4 billion on power.

Test behavior

Save the project but started a little late since it had originally, start at the beginning of the year. It will run until July 2012. Forty clients will test the vehicles. Mainly businesses – such as Carrefour, France Telecom or Otis – and communities.The first cars were delivered: the prototypes of Renault Kangoo and electric Fluence, and Nissan Leaf (sold in France this summer).

"The goal is to study driver behavior (their mode of conduct, the frequency of refills) and its impact on the autonomy of the vehicles, but also to test our after-sales services, that is to say our ability to repair an electric vehicle incident, "said Bernard Cambier, commercial director of Renault France. Firefighters in the region have also been trained to work on damaged cars without fear of electrocution.

More than 200 charging points are being deployed. Renault has teamed up with EDF, Schneider Electric (for the provision of terminals) and Total, which will place two terminals fast charge (30 minutes) in its service stations.This experiment, amounting to 23 million euros, is financed by the Ile-de-France, ADEME (Agency for Environment and Energy Management) and the General Council of Yvelines. The initial feedback is expected within two months.

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Oil Tripping the Cac 40

After the nice gains yesterday on Wall Street and in Asia this morning, European stock markets saw their rate of increase slowed even fall into negative territory. In Paris the Cac 40, which closed yesterday up nearly 1% beyond 4100, declined by more than 1% to 4067.15 points after leading much of the day. The CAC 40 suffered profit taking after several fine sessions of gains. Investors worried about the risk of contagion of violence in the Arab world to major oil producing countries, like Kuwait or Oman.

On the foreign exchange market, the euro continued to rise against the dollar on Tuesday, still supported by persistent speculation about an early monetary tightening in the euro zone before the policy meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday.To 17 hours in Paris, the euro bought 1.3816 dollars against 1.3803 dollars late Monday.

Registrations of new cars bound

Tuesday, statistics aside, the European Commission announced expect a growth of 1.6% for countries in the euro area this year, up 0.1 points from previous projections, despite rising prices Oil and debt problems of some countries. Note, however, inflation accelerated again in February in the eurozone to 2.4% yoy from 2.3% in January, according to a first estimate Tuesday of the EU statistics office Eurostat. Still according to Eurostat, unemployment in the euro area fell to 9.9% of the workforce in January, after at least 10% in almost all of 2010.Also note, the growth of French manufacturing activity accelerated in February, according to final results of the Monthly Markit published Tuesday.

Registrations of new cars jumped 13.7% in France in February, still enjoying the effects of scrapping, according to figures released Tuesday by the Committee of French Automobile (CCFA). Registrations of Peugeot SA climbed 10.7% and 15.2% of Renault. The CAC 40, Peugeot SA and Renault respectively lost 1.64% to 28.54 euros and 2.23% to 43.42 euros. Furthermore, Peugeot SA is considering a name "low cost" for Europe, but has not yet taken a decision thereon, said Tuesday its chief brands, Jean-Marc Gales at the Geneva Motor Show .

Note also challenge Toyota, Peugeot and BMW in the hybrid car.The two groups will invest 100 million euros in their joint venture. Research and procurement will be located in Germany, while production of components will be located in Mulhouse.

In Paris, the luxury group LVMH with doing well, which accounts 0.17% to 114.70 euros. Investors ignore the departure of Galliano Dior. His rival, PPR advance more (0.86% to 110.95 euros)

Technicolor has reduced its losses in 2010

Sales of the former Thomson – on the brink of bankruptcy in 2009 – have rebounded throughout the year. The net loss of 69 million has been divided by five.The title is sanctioned: -5.66% to 5.17 euros

Vivendi (-1.31% to 20 business cards.39 euros) projects a slight increase in its profits and maintaining a high dividend in 2011 after posting 2010 earnings in line with expectations, the economic daily reported Tuesday Voices.

Steria (-1.25% to 22.57 Euro) announced Monday anticipate an acceleration in organic growth in turnover in 2011 against a backdrop of improving the IT services market, but its margin is expected to remain stable against 2010.

Remy Cointreau: + 2.74% to 50.01 euros specialist in wines and spirits to be announced Monday night entered into exclusive negotiations with the PPE Group for the sale of two brands of Champagne Piper-Heidsieck and Charles Heidsieck.

Bureau Veritas (-0.45% to 55.70 euros) on Monday published the results in 2010 net growth due to emerging countries and said to anticipate further strong growth in sales and operating profit in 2011.

Ingenico: -1.66% to 26.98 euros The group announced Monday night that he might have to raise its medium-term objectives, set for 2013, on the basis of year 2011 for which he anticipates growth organic turnover and improved margins.

Casino Guichard (unchanged at 70.98 euros) wants to sell assets for 700 million euros.The group expects an increase in sales of more than 10% annually over the next three years, but shows a 7% drop in net income in 2010 to 550 million euros in 2010 against 591 million euros a year earlier.

Carrefour (-1.71% to 34.79 euros) and the Alliance Boots company announced Monday an agreement of long-term cooperation in the field of cosmetics. Both groups will also explore partnership opportunities in emerging countries in the field of health.

GDF Suez degraded by UBS

GDF Suez, the second largest European utilities in terms of turnover, is studying the possibility of selling its gas distribution network in Italy as part of a transaction that can represent 750 million euros. Value (-2.13% to 28.75 euros) suffers from a lowering of recommendation from UBS, spent "neutral."

Dried Environment (-0.49% to 66.35 euros) on Monday published the results in 2010 rising, driven by the treatment and recovery of waste, and it was announced a further increase in current operating profit in 2011.

April Group (-2.25% to 22.38 euros) announced Monday a 9.6% increase in net income in 2010 for increased income from investments and the sale of nonstrategic assets .

Damartex (0.46% to 21.70 euros) announced Monday a Damartex Monday announced an increase of 17.5% in operating profit in the first half of 2010-2011 ended in late December, to 23.4 million euros thanks to improved sales and profit margins.

Predica, a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole Assurances and Land Wall announced Monday it had signed with the Louvre Hotels Group protocol to acquire a portfolio of 33 hotel properties operated under the Campanile.

Ports: the strikes have cost 800 million euros to companies

On the occasion of its big annual event, the Ufip, the French Union of Petroleum Industries on Friday announced the impact of strikes on the fall of 2010 alone oil industry: 230 million euros.

A figure that could grow. For the fourth straight weekend, the activity of French ports will be affected by social movements, the CGT still requiring validation of an agreement on the drudgery.

Besides this "handicap" represented by the unreliability of the port of Marseilles, and denounced by Jean-Louis Schilansky Ufip Chairman of the rising discontent especially from the bosses of companies weakened by the downturn port. Under the patronage of the Phoenician city, the losses at the end of November last, relating to strikes, would amount to 800 million euros.In the medium term, the continued movement threatens 41,000 jobs directly and indirectly specifies the organization, who attended Thursday at a meeting of major economic players in Marseille.

Now "A container for two to France through foreign ports," a late Jean-Luc Chauvin, president of the PSU 13, the Union for companies in the Bouches du Rhone. Companies are dying to Marseille where we are in a state of permanent strike. "

Threat to long-term activity Ports

"Companies are tired, we are undermining the economic fabric," adds the CEO of the Port of Marseille, Jean-Claude Terrier. Especially if short-term impact of strikes on the job can be cushioned by partial unemployment, it is not the same in the long term.

Plagued by recurring blockages, the poor image of the port of Marseilles is widening cash advance loans. What is not without consequences for the activity: traffic from all terminals of the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille (GPMM) grew twice as fast in 2009 as the Mediterranean ports, and three times less than those Northern Europe.

And the fall in traffic could continue. On the site of Fos sur Mer, terminals and cargo containers are still totally blocked this weekend. A new arrest brings to 29 the number of calls to cancel since the beginning of the month. Between 1980 and 2010, the port of Marseille has lost 12% market share, reaching 16% last year. He has yet to lose a place among the European countries (5th in 2010).

However, difficult before any return to normalcy, to quantify exactly how many jobs really threatened.Meanwhile, a cell of the Prefecture of the Bouches du Rhone will be created to select the companies affected by social movements, and conduct an evaluation in terms of jobs. About 2,500 companies will receive bank facilities, said the Prefect Hughes Parant.

Side Le Havre, or movement is also closely watched, the loss of port activity related to strikes brought to 40% in Les Echos said the president of the Maritime Union and port of Le Havre. About 80% of the 16,000 jobs that include the organization today are indirectly affected, "he said. In January more than 50 calls were canceled out of 170 were provided, again in favor of other ports, Belgian and Dutch.

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Homes Borloo complaints defects

Cracked walls, leaky chimneys, shutters that do not close, gutter-grid, electrical non-compliant … the lists of defects found by four owners of houses Havre Borloo is long. The bill also has increased. While the program launched by former Minister of Social Cohesion provided at a cost of 100,000 euros per house, in fact the final additions have all exceeded that price. For one family, the final bill even reached 150,000 euros.

Faced with silence from the developer – a company of Val-de-Marne – the owners have demanded Tuesday an injunction, the appointment of an expert independent judiciary, officials said in court. This solution was approved by Laurent Lepillier, counsel for the New workshops Urban, who said she was "able to bring the serenity and initiate dialogue".Then the installation of families in their home last September, the parties refer in fact responsible.

Answer January 18

The sponsor believes that those defects are "greatly exaggerated". Eric Gaillard, head of the New Urban workshops, "these are small faults, microcracks, but no site is perfect." He also asserts that the owners have refused to receive the workers sent to carry out necessary repairs, and challenges the Latvian company has developed the concept of timber-framed houses.For its part, the first deputy mayor Cahierre Agathe (UMP) said that this promoter is "defective" but stressed that 150 houses or similar Borloo were delivered "no problem" in Le Havre in 2010.

As for the passing of tariff, the developer explains that this is justified by "the evolution of market prices" since the launch of the operation by Jean-Louis Borloo in 2005. And he accepted the appointment of an expert, his lawyer has instead asked the judge to reject the principle of paying an allowance of 4000 euros per family. The expert must rule on January 18.

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That 2011 will change to our finances

Here is the list of spending items that will vary in early 2011.

Social benefits

SMIC: The government has warned that there would be no boost given to the minimum wage this year. The minimum wage will be adjusted according to the mechanisms provided by the Labour Code and will rise from 8.86 euros gross per hour at 9 euros. The 2.3 million people paid the minimum wage will now receive 1,365 euros for 35 hours, or about 1073 euros net per month.

RSA: The income beneficiaries of active solidarity, which have touched in December a Christmas bonus, will see their monthly income revalued by 1.5% (inflation in 2011). Their income will double to 466.99 euros for a single person, an increase of 6.90 euros to 700.49 euros and for a single person with a child or a couple without children.

Child benefit: They will also be adjusted from 1.5% to 125.78 euros per month for two children, an increase of 1.86 euro and 286.94 euros for three children (4, 24 euros).

Health

Doctors: Consultation with GPs from 22 euros to 23 euros.

Medications: Some drugs will be less well paid by Social Security. Those who were at 35% will no longer be only 30%.

Present.In tax incentives

Scrapping and environmental bonus: The scrapping of 500 euros – whose number is estimated at 600,000 in 2010 – will disappear. The payment of bonuses is also environmentally hardened. For cars ordered in 2011 emitting between 116 and 125 g / km CO2, the environmental bonus of 100 euros will be deleted. For vehicles that emit 96 to 115 g, from 500 euros to 400 euros.For vehicles 61 to 95 grams, it falls from 1,000 euros to 800 euros. The bonus of 2000 euros LPG is removed, it is hard for hybrids.

Employment at home: After long debates in the National Assembly and Senate, the measure abolishing the 15% deduction on employer contributions offered to individuals who employ an employee at home has finally been voted under pressure from the government.

Taxes: The highest band of income tax is raised from 40% to 41%. This measure aims to fund the pension reform for taxpayers who claim more than 69,783 euros per year guaranteed approval cash advance loans.

• Pending the great tax reform planned for the second half of 2011 and could sign by the end of the solidarity tax on wealth, the ISF reduction granted for the direct or indirect investment in a particular small business will be reduced from 75% to 50% in the limit of 45,000 euros.

• Despite the amendment advocated by the UMP deputy Herve Mariton, honeymooners, as well as civil partnerships or divorce of the year does not fill more than three tax returns. They may no longer qualify for the tax cut that allowed this practice sometimes.

• The tax loopholes supporting investments in real estate also suffering with a plane of 10%.The tax credit on equipment in support of sustainable development, tax reduction for certain overseas investments or investment Scellier (rental in nine) are particularly concerned.

• The entire device support accession is also consolidated. The tax credit on mortgage interest is deleted and a zero-interest loan universal set for first-time buyers. It will be granted unconditionally resources.

• As for the tax credit for photovoltaics, it is reduced by half.

Consumption and transport

SNCF: Train tickets should have an increase of 2 to 3% with effect from 15 January. The government had also expressed support for such an increase in early December.This rate increase should allow maintenance of the railway network.

Insurance: The tariff increases will be particularly important in the insurance sector. The price will incur an increase of 2.5% to 4.5% for cars, from 3% to nearly 8% for housing and 5.3% to 8.5% for health.

Energy: Increase by 3% due to the contribution to public service electricity (CSPE), which finances the purchase of renewable energy. The social tariff for electricity, provided to the poorest households (625,000 households), should vary between 40 and 60% against 30 to 50%. Gas rates should remain stable until April.

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Debt: the ECB would present the bill

After helping to regret Greece, Ireland or Portugal, the European Central Bank presents the bill to its shareholders, the European governments. The ECB could ask at the summit of Heads of State and Government on Thursday a capital increase to offset the redemption of debt of struggling states, according to sources close to the institution cited by news agencies.

The ECB has so far bought back nearly $ 72 billion to struggling states' obligations to prevent the crisis from spreading in the eurozone. This measure, the ECB has taken reluctantly last spring, while the states were struggling to stem the contagion of a weak state to another.

Cushion

But buying government bonds in trouble, that is to say stocks that lose value every day in the markets, reduces the size of the balance sheet of the ECB.In other words, it deflates the cushion. "The ECB and the entire network of national central banks in the euro area, the Eurosystem has already committed 5 times the amount of its capital in the battle, that is to say in redemptions of bonds and the short-term loans to banks in difficulty, "said Gilles Moec, economist at Deutsche Bank.

If the portfolio value of the ECB lose 20% because of plummeting government bonds it holds, then it would undermine the Eurosystem faxless cash advance. To avoid being in situations of near bankruptcy, the ECB would therefore require States to bail it out through the national central banks. However, as all states are in deficit, they would have to remove themselves from the money markets. An expensive operation.

Besides a precautionary measure, requested by the ECB would therefore also sent a message to European states on how "what I do for you is not free." Some states might think that so far as the ECB somehow control the fire, they still had time to find a more permanent solution to the crisis.

Toward more acquisitions?

However, the markets could interpret differently a capital increase by the ECB. "There are two other ways to include the strengthening of the mattress of the ECB," says Cyril Reignat, Natixis: "Either the ECB to be ready to compensate its losses, or it is a first step toward redemption bond issues. "This message would defeat the objective of the Central Bank, which wants to stop as soon as possible its aid program to states in need.

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Sanofi: OPA extended at the same price

As expected, Sanofi-Aventis continues in the same conditions its hostile bid made last October 4 on the U.S. Genzyme. The French laboratory which garnered only 0.9% of shares in the biotech United States after the expiration at midnight Friday for the first time, hopes to "give more time to holders of ordinary shares tender their shares to Genzyme to bid. "

New deadline brought to 21 January 2011

The new deadline is extended to January 21, 2011 at 23:59, New York time, "unless it is extended again," says Sanofi-Aventis. At 69 dollars per share, the offer values the group's pharmaceutical always Genzyme $ 18.5 billion. But the American judge that amount insufficient to launch formal talks with its suitor.In an interview, Henri Termeer, the head of the U.S. biotech estimated that $ 69 per share, the offer from Sanofi-Aventis "has no chance of success."

Disagreement on the valuation

The two parties disagree on the value of Genzyme rely mainly on the difficulties in assessing the speed with which the U.S. is recovering from serious production problems on two of its blockbuster drugs due to problems of contamination of one of its plants.

Another major stumbling block between the two groups: the estimation of future sales of its molecule Campath against multiple sclerosis.

To work around this particular problem, the boss Henri Termeer of Genzyme said he was open to the solution of the contingent value rights certificates, which allow shareholders to receive his company based on actual results of Campath an additional price, improving the offers French.Sanofi-Aventis, however, did not comment officially on this solution.

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Caution in the Paris Bourse

The CAC 40, which closed higher Friday in a small, troubled by disappointing U.S. figures of unemployment could continue rising slightly on Monday in the wake of Asian stock markets globally changing up early this morning. Friday night, Wall Street also closed higher.

However, at 3750 points, the benchmark index of the Paris Stock Exchange fell below the key technical points of 3770/3780. What sets the CAC 40 in a fragile area, which could see it go to 3590 points. Above 3770 points, the trend pass again neutral in the short term.

Monday's meeting of finance ministers of the euro area is expected when the financial world is closely monitoring the slightest clue that might lead one to think that the crisis of sovereign debt spreads in Portugal and Spain, after Rescue of Greece and Ireland.The ministers will discuss the Fiscal Stabilization Fund, including France and Germany argue strongly that it becomes sustainable.

Meanwhile, the euro took a breather after being well up in recent sessions. Around 7:15, the euro lost 0.54% and 1.3342 dollar deals.

Hermes protects LVMH

The Hermes family announced the creation of a holding company owning more than 50% of Hermes International. An operation which aims to lock his participation after the end of October surprise burst of LVMH stake in this jewel of French luxury.

Areva larecapitalisation The first step in the French nuclear group is imminent, said Sunday the Minister of Industry, Eric Besson said that the sovereign funds of Kuwait and the French State will participate.Areva and EDF have also announced Friday night to have reached an agreement on the extension of the enrichment plant Eurodif (Drôme) until the entry into service of the Georges Besse II site.

Vivendi Vodafone is about to sell its 44% stake in SFR to Vivendi, which would allow him to buy five billion pounds (5.9 billion euros) of its own shares in 2011, wrote The Sunday Observer .

Siemens Alstom has signed a contract worth over 700 million euros to provide Eurostar trains. The operator of the Channel Tunnel traditionally commanded far from Alstom's TGV and the choice of German competitor had caused an uproar in the French government.

All operators Iliad Internet / Telephone / Television, like Free, will increase their prices under the pretext of the VAT hike.France will thus lose the original model invented by Free, who has catapulted among the world leaders in Internet access.

Maurel & Prom has announced that no traces of oil had been found in the exploration wells Kianika-1, on the field of Mandawa, Tanzania.

Eiffage Jean-François Roverato, Group CEO, intends to convince Wednesday its board of directors to appoint to succeed him, eventually, Peter Berger, director of Vinci.

Miramax Disney sells for $ 663 million

The U.S. entertainment giant Walt Disney has sold its subsidiary Miramax. The legendary movie studios, created in 1979 by the Weinstein brothers then sold to Disney for $ 80 million in 1993, were again on sale since early 2010. Several buyers have expressed interest, including the founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein, backed by billionaire Ron Burkle U.S..

It is ultimately an investment group Filmyard Holdings LLC, which also includes Thomas J. Barrack Jr., Colony Capital LLC funds and Ronald Tutor, who bought the film studio for $ 663 million, Disney said in a statement.The Qatar Holding LLC, acting on behalf of the Government of Qatar and already has stakes in many companies, especially European, is also among the buyers.

The sale includes the sale of Miramax catalog, full of about 700 films that generate nearly 300 million dollars in revenue per year. Among them were many successes as The English Patient, The Piano, Pulp Fiction, The Aviator, Kill Bill, Shakespeare in Love … and not less than sixty three Oscars and Palmes d'Or at Cannes (Sex, Lies and Videotape, Pulp Fiction and Fahrenheit 9 / 11).

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