German growth in 2013 should be limited to 0.3% in relation to the long winter past and a weaker than expected start to the year, said Friday the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) scaling back its annual forecast. The federation was still expecting in February for growth of 0.7% and is now more pessimistic than the German government, which expects an increase in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 0.5% in 2013 after 0.7% in 2012 [...]

It is a revolution in its scale UNEDIC. The office of the agency that administers unemployment insurance Thursday, May 23 to adopt a report that an overview of the complexity of the unemployment compensation rules. The report revealed by the specialized agency AEF, which Le Monde has obtained a copy, list including two "hot spots" for the unemployed: the cumulation of reduced activity and allowances and wage determination reference used to calculate the level of compensation. But the report to [...]

Crisis forces, SNCF multiplying promotional offers to attract travelers in its TGV. "In the first quarter of fiscal 2013, sales were slightly lower than last year," said Tuesday at a press Barbara Dalibard, Executive Director of SNCF Voyages. Mid-April, our colleague Les Echos revealed a sharp drop in sales during the first two months of the year. To stimulate demand, the railway plays on prices. "There is a growing supply of low prices in 2013. The aim is to see [...]

"Why would anyone beat a folk singer?" That was the question that started it all. Joel and Ethan Coen had hitherto vague idea of ​​making another music movie, but it lacked a story. During the search they came across the biography of the now almost forgotten singer Dave Van Ronk – and were electrified. Van Ronk (1936 – 2002) was the late fifties, an archetypal figure in the folk revival scene in New York's Greenwich Village. In his book, "The [...]

Italians Giovanni Visconti and Vincenzo Nibali, both Sicilians, shared the honors in the snowfields of the Galibier where came the 15th stage of the Giro Visconti, from Palermo Sunday, has won a prestigious stage success close to the monument dedicated to the Italian climber Marco Pantani, who had attacked this place, 4.2 kilometers from the summit of the pass, to go win the Tour de France in 1998, that of the Festina affair. Nibali, a native of Messina, has provided [...]

Assad's troops are reported to have penetrated from the south into the city. Their onslaught was accompanied by air attacks, it said. At the battle and fighters of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah to have been involved, which is in Syria-Hezbollah conflict on the side of Assad's regime. The uprising against Assad has escalated into a bloody civil war in Syria since March 2011. Tens of thousands of people were killed according to the UN and human rights organizations in [...]

ROME – The gold star of the cones will be given to the Prefect of Pisa, and former superintendent of Rome, Francesco Sharp. The award ceremony will happen on Tuesday 'on May 21 at the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, with the prize by the CONI president Giovanni Malag. The prefect will come Sharp celebrated in the presence of the vertices of the sporting world during the awarding of the trophy Assi Giglio Rosso, promotional event in [...]

How to put the new information technologies and communication technologies for agricultural know-how to allow French farmers live their digital revolution? That is the whole purpose of Neotic a software publisher established in 2011 by four students in Montpellier. SMEs than fifty employees and has developed Agreo, a platform that has seven different IT solutions accessible via the Internet and to meet the technical challenges of managing different sectors: farmers / ranchers, wine and spirits, agricultural suppliers, collectors, seed companies, [...]

La vie en rose? This Thursday, May 16th was inaugurated the first European Barbie Dreamhouse in Berlin. Point rides in this space, but a house of 2500 square meters supposed to be one of the famous doll. But the Barbie universe raises long-standing controversy about the image of women conveyed. And the Dreamhouse is no exception. So, feminist groups (FEMEN among others) and associations for the protection of women stood against the site. The threats are numerous, the city had [...]

Twenty years ago the former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani led the principle of "Zero Tolerance" a: Each discarded piece of paper, every careless discarded soda can, any damage to a park bench led indiscriminately for immediate punishment of the offender. $ 100 for a dog poop – that was then already a strong argument for future loszugehen with the plastic bags. The theory was based on "Zero Tolerance" was simple, but plausible, because on a clean sidewalk nobody throws [...]