Report devoted to the fight against tax evasion, which reached a new record with 19 billion euros including 4 penalties. The main source of fraud is VAT, on which the State has recovered 10 billion euros. The rest consists mainly of taxes paid by repentant tax exiles. Comment on illustration images, alternating with the interview of Michel SAPIN, Minister of Finance.
Report devoted to online sales during sales. Comment on factual images alternately with interviews with Julie DALSACE, internet client, Bachir ASSADOUNENE, interim, and Cyril ANDRINO, CEO of Brandalley.
Presentation of the government’s pension reform project. It provides for a 43-year contribution period and an increase in contributions. Medef is alarmed by the increase in contributions and thus the cost of work. Interviews with Laurent BERGER, General Secretary of the CFDT and Pierre GATTAZ, President of the Medef, excerpt from a statement by Thierry LEPAON, General Secretary of the CGT on France Inter (filmed radio). THIERRY LEPAON " A young person who, on average, is entering the labour market at the age of 26, when 43 years of contributions are announced for retirement, It puts a full retirement at 69 at the same time that employers lay off employees on average at 56. LAURENT BERGER "Retirement is: I contribute and receive entitlements in return for this contribution. The majority of retirement funding must be based on contributions. The CSG is for other necessary funding such as health or loss of autonomy. PIERRE GATTAZ "Taxing is not reforming, overtaxing is creating unemployment. Using the contributions to continue to solve the country’s problems will result in a 15% unemployment rate.
Report in Brussels where the European Council must adopt measures to combat tax evasion and evasion. A thousand billion Euros escape the tax authorities every year. Directly concerned, Luxembourg and Austria have committed themselves to the automatic exchange of information. The commentary on factual and illustrated images alternates with interviews with Werner FAYMANN, Austrian Chancellor, Jean-Claude JUNCKER, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, and François HOLLANDE, President of the Republic. Plateau in François BEAUDONNET situation.
Report devoted to the decrease in the price of past communications from mobile for 10 years. However, consumers are not always aware of this drop. However, the arrival of a new operator is still stimulating the debate. Commentary on factual images, illustration images, infographic images, client microsidewalk, and interview Jean-Ludovic SILICANI, president of the telecommunications regulatory authority.
Meeting with Xavier NIEL, Marc SIMONCINI and Jacques-Antoine GRANJON, three successful French entrepreneurs in the e-commerce sector, during the e-G8, a forum bringing together the main economic players in the sector. The images of the forum alternate with interviews with Xavier NIEL, founder of "Free", Marc SIMONCINI, founder of "Meetic", and Jacques Antoine GRANJON, founder of "vente-privée.com".
Statement by French President Nicolas SARKOZY on the euro at the Davos Forum (Switzerland): "To those who would like to bet against the euro, pay attention to your money... the consequences of a disappearance of the euro would be so cataclysmic that one cannot even play with this idea".
Report on the results of a report by the Court of Auditors showing that the tax on companies in France is not the same for all. The largest French groups are thus largely exempt from the tax system thanks to tax havens and pay far fewer taxes on their profits than small and medium-sized businesses. Explanations. Comments on illustration images and infographics alternating with interviews with Vincent DREZET, national union unified of taxes, about the use of the tax haven by the company for taxation, and Christian CHAVAGNEUX, author of the book "Tax havens", about the low taxation of multinationals.
More and more hypermarkets are offering hard discount stores. Large retailers want to take certain customers back to them. Journalists compare the cost of a typical basket at a hard discounter and in a hypermarket. Hard discount stores may have to reduce their margins to attract customers again. Comment on factual images and infographics with interviews with several customers, Bruno EMPEREUR from Carrefour stores and Laurent THOUMINE, KSA consulting firm.
The success of Apple’s IPhone has resulted in the downloading of more than a billion apps specific to this mobile phone to the brand’s website. Presentation of this virtual store and meeting with Frédéric DESCAMPS, an astronomy enthusiast who became in a few months a successful entrepreneur thanks to his software "Starmap" which has already earned him two hundred thousand euros. The commentary on factual images, websites and infographic images alternates with the interviews of Frédéric DESCAMPS, Creator of the Starmap application, and Gonzague of VALLOIS, Editor "Gameloft".
Gathered in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises to inaugurate a monument in memory of Charles de Gaulle and to commemorate 50 years of Franco-President Nicolas SARKOZY and Chancellor Angela MERKEL spoke mainly about the crisis in the world financial markets. But on the eve of a meeting of the Eurogroup which aims to put in place a common economic rescue plan, the disagreements between the two countries on the solutions to be applied persist. Commentary on factual images alternating with excerpts from press statements by Nicolas SARKOZY and Angela MERKEL. Tray in situation Alexandre KARA.
Excerpt from the press conference given by the President of the Republic Nicolas SARKOZY on solutions to the current financial crisis and in particular support for European banks in difficulty.
Update on nuclear risks in France and the arrangements for plant controls by the ASN (Nuclear Safety Agency). Commentary on factual and archival images, infographic, and interview Charles-Antoine LOUET, of the Lyon Nuclear Safety Authority.
The subprime crisis continues to grow, and today the places are shifting. For Nicolas BOUZOU, economist, this is a crisis that has been hidden since the summer of 2017 with an episode of sharp drop in stock prices, and not a Krach. Dominique STRAUSS-KHAN, Director of the IMF, explains that the United States is in recession and that all developed countries are also affected.
A recent INSEE survey learns that couples can live longer: a commentary on these detailed results. Alternating: illustration images, testimony of a retired couple, Jacques and Marie-Rose MEYER, infographic images, and explanations by Guy DESPLANQUES, head of the demographic department (Insee).
Reportage devoted to the demonstration of doctors and hospital staff today in France to protest against budget restrictions, job cuts and services, through the example of that organized in Paris. Commentaries on images of the event alternate with the interview of demonstrators and Jean-Luc GIBELIN, general secretary of the CGT federation of Health.
Work begins on the TGV Atlantique. Rennes and Nantes will be only two hours away from Paris, and Bordeaux will be only three hours away. The route out of Paris will be common to the three routes to the south of Courtalain in the Eure-et-Loire. Comment on factual images and interview of a farmer.
The Airbus consortium will sign the largest contract in the history of civil aviation. US Air has ordered several Airbus aircraft for a sum of CHF 60 billion. The success of Airbus is due in part to the efforts made to improve its models such as the presence of bunks on the A340. Commentary on factual images and interviews Robert ALIZART (Vice President for Communication Airbus Industrie) and Patrick BAUDRY (Chief Aerospace Pilot).
In Marrakech, representatives of 122 countries participating in the Uruguay Round signed a final agreement that enshrines the establishment of a broad liberalization of international trade: the WTO. The subject is composed of images of the signature of the agreement with the various signatories and interviews of Mourad CHERIFF, Moroccan Minister of Foreign Trade, Fassassi YACOUBOU, Minister of Foreign Trade of Benin, who are being optimistic. Gérard LONGUET, the French Minister for Foreign Trade, sees an improvement: "It is no longer the law of the jungle...the social clause will be integrated, it will not be the law of the lowest wage. There is a prospect for countries that trade with each other to raise wage levels".
Just 2 days before the opening of the auto show, renamed "the world’s car", Henri Sannier took the wheel of the latest Renault car, the small "Twingo", a major novelty of this show.