While the 35-hour shift is scheduled for 1 January for small and medium-sized businesses, bakers are calling for the possibility of a wider use of overtime. Comment on factual images and interviews Jean-Yves GAUTIER (baker), Christian GEORGE (Fédération Boulangerie Meurthe-et-Moselle) and Kevin GARREAU (baker-worker).
Fibreglass production in a factory in Shanghai. This document proposes to show in images the different stages of manufacture of this modern and delicate material, from the grinding of the raw material to the finished product, through the spinning of the coils in industrial quantity. A cutting-edge industry in a factory equipped with high-tech machines.
The STIF plans to increase the price of the Navigo pass by 3% per year until 2025, to finance the Greater Paris Express. But the government wants to increase VAT on public transport from 7% to 10%. Comment on images of train stations and public transport in Ile de France and interviews with users who are concerned about the increase in subscription prices. Pierre STERNE, Vice-President of the Ile de France region in charge of transport, talks about the involvement of users in this new project.
Political, artistic and literary personalities took part in the celebration of the centenary of the Parisian department store La Samaritaine, in the Saint Louis de la Conciergerie room in Paris. Images of this event, including Marcel Achard flipping through the Golden Book of the Samaritan. Prints of the shop and its neighbourhood.
Sale at Printemps du boulevard Haussman in Paris. The articles are torn apart because the rebate can reach 50%. Images of women fighting over an article and interviewing a client.
Report on the visit of Jacques Chirac, President of the Republic, to the Agricultural Fair in Paris, accompanied by Jean GLAVANY, Minister of Agriculture. Images of Jacques Chirac talking to farmers and tasting products. Interview with Jacques CHIRAC on the negotiations on the common agricultural policy and his determination to defend the interests of French farmers.
Report. Today in France, one in seven employees lives with the SMIC, that is to say 1,217 euros gross per month. Meeting with a family of four children living on the sole salary of the father, worker. The images of scenes of family life and shopping at the supermarket alternate with the testimony of the couple, including the mother, who describes the tight budget of the household. The grandparents also deplore this situation.
Explanation of very high speed, 25 to 30 times more powerful and faster for sound, image and Internet download. Commentary on images of illustration and infographics, alternating with interviews with Michaël BOUKOBZA, general manager of FREE, and Delphine SABATIER, assistant editor of the magazine "Science et Vie Micro".
Nicolas GHESQUIERE confirms the revival of the Balenciaga house, presenting its new luxury ready-to-wear collection, spring-summer 2005. Present at the parade, Françoise HARDY and Charlotte GAINSBOURG came to encourage the stylist. The commentary on the images of the show is interspersed by the interviews of Anna WINTOUR, editor-in-chief "American Vogue" then Nicolas GHESQUIERE. - Anna Wintour explains that the young stylist is very popular with the American press because he has already organized many fashion shows in New York. - Nicolas Ghesquière explains how he works with haute-couture techniques to make, as he says, "a bridge with industry".
Report on the 100th anniversary of the Paris Fair. Comment on factual images and archives alternating with the interview of Marie-José POST, director of the Paris Fair.
Portrait of Edouard CHEMEL, former captain of the Concorde. Commentary on images of the former pilot at home, showing photos of the aircraft and his family, various images of the aircraft in flight, as well as Presidents Chirac and Mitterrand on board. Testimony of Edouard CHEMEL, former commander.
An update on the grumbling of emergency physicians who denounce the conditions for the application of the reduction of working time in hospital and demand job creation and a budget extension, Pointing the risk of deterioration in the quality of care. Factual images at the hospital in Tarbes, where the emergency doctor strike has been going on for ten days; interviews with Jean Manuel PIERNA, emergency pathologist, and Patrick PELLOUX, President of the Association des médecins urgentistes hospitaliers de France.
Europe and the new European currency: Reporting in French supermarkets for this first day of purchases in euros. According to the European Commission, half of the cash payments were made in euros in the countries concerned and the cashiers faced it with serenity. Comments on factual images and interviews Virginie BEZOTEAUX (cashier), customers and Isabelle MESLET (Cash desk manager).
New European currency: Euro kits worth 15.25? are available in banks, post offices and tobacco offices. Comments on factual images and consumer interviews on new parts.
Balenciaga Fashion House was chosen to create the new uniforms of the supervisory officers of 31 national museums. The outfits will be beige and navy. Models (men and women) pose with the different models.
Report devoted to the beginning of the public utility survey concerning the project of liaison between East and West Paris, Eole. The first traces of the project are visible near the Gare de l'Est, where the ground conditions are studied underground. Eole will be the deepest Parisian shipyard. Images of the first works, well, site plans. Interview with Guy LAPLACE, project manager.
The revelations of the newspaper "Le Monde" on the plan to close several Danone sites, notably in the Ile de France, then denied by the company’s management, were confirmed by an internal note from Danone providing for a layoff plan to close 18 factories in Europe. Comment on images of a Lu plant in Danone alternating with press clippings.
Report dedicated to the inauguration today by Prime Minister Lionel Jospin of the new RER E called Eole. Images of the inauguration and the station. Interview with Lionel JOSPIN.