2023-12-15 14:58:14 A Christmas bonus is paid on Friday, December 15 to more than 2.2 million low-income households, a bonus exceptionally increased this year by 35% for single-parent families, the government announced on Friday. This Christmas bonus will be paid to all beneficiaries of the active solidarity income (RSA), the specific solidarity allowance (ASS), the … Read more
2023-12-15 06:00:03 Open spaces – or open-plan offices, in French – are supposed to improve productivity through better communication between employees, and reduce real estate costs through more rational layout of spaces. The other side of the coin is that, since their emergence in France in the 1990s, they have been accused of degrading the … Read more
2023-12-15 05:00:27 The Georges Brassin lowered the curtain in April. At 47 rue Lacroix, in 17e district of Paris, the microbrewery sign has disappeared from the landscape and a gray blind suggests nothing of past activity. A sudden stop which puts an end to an adventure, all in all ephemeral. « We launched in 2020, … Read more
2023-12-13 19:00:27 After the parenthesis of “whatever it takes”, the debt once again becomes a subject of concern. While the overall debt, public and private, represented $226 trillion (around 209,500 billion euros) at the end of 2020, it now corresponds to more than 310,000 billion, or more than 350% of gross domestic product (GDP), an … Read more
2023-12-13 18:16:40 Olvid, a messaging service created in 2019 and until now relatively confidential. DAMIEN MEYER / AFP In order to guarantee France’s digital sovereignty, was the government wrong to promote the French instant messaging solution Olvid? The question arises after the publication of two articles, on December 8, by the online media The Informed, … Read more
2023-12-12 15:14:05 At the conference organized Monday, December 11, at the Guimet Museum, in Paris, for the 20th anniversary of the law on patronage that he had supported, the former minister of culture Jean-Jacques Aillagon was to be the king of the party, but Covid decided otherwise. It is therefore Rima Abdul Malak, the current … Read more
2023-12-12 03:45:08 Emmanuel Macron, on the Airbus industrial site, in Blagnac (Haute-Garonne), December 11, 2023. CAROLINE BLUMBERG / AFP It’s known, Emmanuel Macron likes it when things go well “faster, stronger”. Particularly in economic and industrial matters. The President of the Republic recalled this in these words, Monday December 11, from Haute-Garonne, where he came … Read more
2023-12-10 17:00:15 We didn’t even have to wait a month. International Media Invest, a subsidiary of the group of Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, the new owner of Editis – number two in France in publishing – since November 14, is already facing its first social movement. The Force Ouvrière (FO) union urged all employees of … Read more