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At the end of the European Summit, the EU decided to continue its sanctions once morest Russia. What impact on the European and Russian economies? Can Europe do without Russian oil? Rémi Bourgeot, economist and associate researcher at IRIS, guest on France 24, says “that we should have diversified upstream a long time ago and also seen things in the longer term from the point of view of relations with Russia”. To analyse.

The last general meeting of TotalEnergies was marked by the opposition of certain shareholders to the group’s climate strategy.

The CEO of TotalEnergies Patrick Pouyanné denounced, Tuesday, May 31, “a Tartuffe side” and the “marketing” of certain institutional shareholders who have recently

voted once morest the oil and gas giant’s climate strategy

during an eventful general assembly.

“I don’t mind that we give a lot of noise to

some French institutions who are not happy

but who keep their shares, even who increase them”, he declared in an interview on BFM Business recorded Monday and broadcast Tuesday. “There is a Tartuffe side in this affair”, judged Patrick Pouyanné, a little less a week following a general meeting of shareholders under high tension.

Minority Opposition to Climate Strategy

The meeting began on Wednesday with shareholders blocked outside by demonstrators and ultimately resulted in a large vote (89%) in favor of the group’s climate strategy, despite

opposition from a minority of investors

(insurance from Crédit Mutuel, Edmond de Rothschild, La Financière de l’Échiquier, the Dutch fund MN, etc.).

Patrick Pouyanné mocked shareholders “who do a little marketing on our backs, from TotalEnergies, which makes me a little angry”. “They are probably more driven by the marketing of their actions than by the climate emergency,” he said. “We give them a lot of weight but what I observe is that

at the end 89% of shareholders supported our plan

“, continued Patrick Pouyanné, ensuring however to listen to “all the criticisms”.

A closed session

“I condemn all the violence that has taken place in both directions,” he also added regarding the sometimes tense exchanges between blocked shareholders and demonstrators at the entrance to the GA last Wednesday.

The session was finally held behind closed doors and online

.

Patrick Pouyanné also predicted “a great announcement from TotalEnergies in hydrogen”, “in the coming weeks”. “When TotalEnergies does something, it’s not small,” he stressed.

Professionals in the sector are facing a shortage of staff a few weeks before a tourist season when they expect excellent attendance.

Recruiting and training staff to have full teams by summer is

the main concern of hoteliers and restaurateurs

, facing a shortage of staff a few weeks before a tourist season when they expect excellent attendance. “The indicators are green”, notes Jean-Virgile Crance, president of the National Group of Hotel Chains (GNC), according to which the strong reservations for the weekends of Ascension and Pentecost augur a “beautiful season 2022 “, carried by a clientele of” more than 70% “French, he declared on BFM Business.

“The desire to travel is much stronger than we imagined 5-6 months ago. The hotels, I hope, will be totally full this summer,” said Accor CEO Sébastien Bazin. recently. “We still need to attract

a number of people who did not return

for many legitimate reasons (…) we are missing 15 to 20% of talent in hotels”, he said.

The “main concern of our professionals”

In fact the “difficulties in hiring” are the “main concern of our professionals, at least as far as seasonal workers are concerned”, notes Jean-Virgile Crance.

Some, for lack of having succeeded in forming teams large enough to offer a service 7 days a week

, will have to close one or two days a week, he said. As the summer season approaches, some professionals are opting for seduction operations: Louvre Hotels Group (Campanile, Kyriad, Première Classe and Golden Tulip, etc.), a subsidiary of the Chinese group Jin Jiang, is organizing a national recruitment day on Thursday in eight metropolises, to fill 200 positions.

Some 80 employees will welcome candidates with “a gourmet coffee” and introduce them to the seasonal or open-ended jobs to be filled: receptionist, cook, executive assistant…”We want to show that

we recruit a wide variety of profiles

in retraining, without experience or distant from employment, and that there are extraordinary career opportunities in the sector”, says Laura Benoumechiara, in charge of human resources in France. The group, which has already set up a 13th month and profit-sharing, is experimenting with the four-day week to retain its employees.

These increased staffing needs are the success of platforms such as Extracadabra, Bruce, Brigad or StaffMe, which

promise professionals a connection with extras with “verified” profiles

. Élise, 30, has been working as a mixologist bartender for seven years: self-employed following having been an employee, she does two to three missions a week thanks to the applications and earns 900 to 1,500 euros a month, which finances her studies in the history of the ‘art. She says she appreciates “the freedom, the flexibility of the schedules” they offer.

“I take the best paid missions”

“I’m very selective: I only work in Paris, only at night, and as I’m starting to get drunk, I take the best paid jobs, I’ve done events, festivals, nice fairs “, she told AFP. Having a permanent contract does not interest him, specifies Élise, because

permanent jobs to be filled are less well paid

: “In terms of salary, they really haven’t done anything since the end of the covid, they really don’t care regarding us”, she says.

The other side of the coin is precariousness: following being injured, for lack of income during her two weeks of convalescence, she had to return to work before being fully recovered. Whether

in the capital the shortage of labor is acute

this is also the case in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur where the region has released one million euros to train a thousand people online.

At the same time, a “benevolence charter” was signed where professionals undertake to improve well-being at work with less restrictive hours, consecutive days off, and a “motivating” salary policy. Started at the end of February,

negotiations between employers and trade unions in the hotel and catering industry should bring progress

(social coverage, work compensation cuts, etc.), following the 5% wage increase that came into effect in April.

PARIS (Archyde.com) – Sanofi announced on Monday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the American health authority, has postponed the launch of the trial in real conditions of use of Cialis, a treatment once morest disorders of the erection, aiming to achieve over-the-counter drug status.

“Sanofi continues to work with the FDA to advance the Cialis transfer program into the self-medication market,” the French drugmaker said, adding that next steps would be determined in upcoming meetings.

Sanofi said it had not recruited patients for the trial.

The title of the pharmaceutical group lost 3.4% at 8:30 GMT at the Paris Stock Exchange.

An analyst contacted by Archyde.com pointed to low market expectations as the reason for the stock move, but added that the trial was meant to boost sales of the group’s consumer healthcare division if successful.

“It is a bit surprising to suspend a trial before it begins, especially since the protocol is generally agreed in advance”, also underlines the analyst in an email.

Cialis, whose active agent is known as Tadalafil, was first approved by the European Medicines Agency in 2002 and then by the US FDA in 2003, by prescription only.

Sanofi, together with drug owner Eli Lilly, has been seeking regulatory approval for a non-prescription version of Cialis since 2014.

Cialis made $718.4 million (668.28 million euros) for Eli Lilly last year, according to the company’s annual report.

(Report by Tassilo Hummel; French version by Augustin Turpin, edited by Kate Entringer)