Without renewing agreements without end in arbitration agreement

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The labor reform was a substantial change in collective bargaining at various points. One of them was the one that ended the indefinite extension of the agreements that had not signed as a new, reduced it to 12 months. The final text was published on July 7, 2012 was a period of a year to renew the agreements had expired. If, after that period, on 8 July this year, has not signed a new one, the frame that will require support workers and entrepreneurs will be the higher level agreement (the sector, and if there is not, the Statute of Workers).

Keep in mind that the document does not remove permanently the possibility of agreements cease to apply immediately on July 8. The content of the covenant, in fact, is a commitment that the central and employers seek to apply in different conversations that are underway. But this does not mean that it will automatically apply, that decision is up to the people and companies traded on different sectors have autonomy to follow the advice or not. A proof of this is that in Catalonia there today called a strike in many private sectors Wednesday was called off despite no agreement reached on the eve.

Knowing the number of workers who could see their working conditions worsen on July 8, is not easy. The unions argue that can affect about 2.5 million, while CEOE reduces the number to 1.5 million. To end the dispute, both parties have called together, and rebuild it in the text-"information on the conventions and workers affected." However, it seems easy to get a quick and accurate response. Data on collective bargaining in Spain suffer from bias and are clearly improved, as acknowledged repeatedly Employment Ministry officials, both this government and the previous.

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Million Italians in poverty – programs for young unemployed

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Italy's economy is in recession for months and as a result, unemployment is now exceptionally high in the country. Is not in sight yet, as the country will again bring more growth and employment opportunities – the political situation in Rome has not shown any significant reforms materialize. Much hope rests on the newly-elected Prime Minister Enrico Letta.

This time is short, as new figures of the Italian national statistics agency Istat show that one in five Italians can not therefore (more) afford the home adequately warm, meat accounts for 17 percent of the population a luxury item, more than half could not even go on vacation one week a year, according to a study by the Authority. Overall, had lived in the past year 2012, about 8.6 million Italians below the poverty line – that's 14 percent of the population, twice as many as two years ago. The purchasing power of Italian consumers, according to Istat fell last year by 4.8 percent, mainly due to strong tax increases. And: The traditionally high savings rate has declined significantly recently in Italy and now lie below the values ​​for France or Germany.

The Italian government will therefore immediately created better opportunities for young people. This Wednesday afternoon, Labour Minister Enrico Giovannini scheduled to meet with representatives of employers and trade unionists to discuss it. The government presents itself obviously that older workers could work less and so make space for younger ("generational handshake"). Furthermore the labor laws should be changed so that company employees can more easily adjust to time. And finally, are reportedly talking to government wage subsidies for employees who are sent because of a weak economy in short time.

High youth unemployment is a problem not only in Italy and not only there are initiatives like it could be addressed. Only recently was the German Labour Minister Ursula von der Leyen in Spain and there was a joint program with the Spanish government announced. Soon Germany and France want to introduce a large-scale joint initiative, such as the high level of youth unemployment in Europe can be combated to a total.

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That night in Asia: Despite the fall of the yen, the Japanese trade deficit widens

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The latest Japanese trade statistics threw cold this morning, the enthusiasm of analysts who say that since January the Japanese new Conservative government would finally managed to wake up the economy of the archipelago after years of stagnation. To feed their optimism, they point to the dramatic fall of the yen orchestrated by the government of Shinzo Abe and predict a sharp increase in exports of "Made in Japan" products. Economists also betting on a 5% jump in imports in April. This growth will finally been only 3.8% in value. Domestic firms exported, the last month for 5. 780 billion yen of goods. Their shipments of mobile phones and remote machines especially when car exports were them stronger. At the same time, the country has imported 6. 660 billion yen of products or energy resources, representing a surge of 9.4% compared to April 2012.

If the orders of gas, oil or coal may not have exploded in volume, they cost much more to Japanese buyers who must work with a yen saw its value plunge against the dollar. This morning, a dollar could buy 103 yen. A year ago, in April 2012, a dollar was worth only 82.3 yen. In total, the Japanese trade deficit rose 70% to 879.9 billion yen last month, and experts expect more difficult months for the Japanese trade balance is now in the red for ten months . They point out that the decline of the Japanese currency could not prove its economic efficiency if the external demand for products "Made in Japan" is solid on the major Western and Asian markets. However, the recovery is tentative and the United States is still not valid in Europe. Apparently unconcerned about these prospects, investors continued this morning, pushing the Nikkei rising. At mid-day, he moved near 15. 550 points, its highest level in five years.

Indonesian Central Bank has finally allow Singapore's DBS to buy, for $ 2.75 billion, 40% of Danamon, the sixth largest commercial bank in the country. The institution, however, reserved the right to validate or invalidate a future takeover of the bank by DBS, which originally hoped the operation, there are more than a year, hold up to 99% of Danamon. The group was then willing to pay $ 7.2 billion for the takeover but it was quickly met with distrust of the Indonesian government. Jakarta said today that a further rise in capital Danamon will only be accepted if the Singaporean government demonstrated reciprocity and allows to turn the large Indonesian banks to better penetrate the banking market of the city-state. The evolution of this transaction is followed very closely by other major international banks that would invest in Indonesia but also wonder about the tolerance of local authorities. They begin to worry about the weight of foreigners in certain strategic sectors.

Everyone does not care for the health of Chinese banks. While Goldman Sachs has ended, earlier this week, its first investment in the Chinese bank – and global – ICBC recovering 1.1 billion U.S. dollars, the Singapore sovereign fund Temasek, he took the opportunity to buy a little more ICBC shares. According to a statement from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Temasek has acquired 198 million shares. It is now the holder of it 7.04% of ICBC, against 6.71% previously. Unlike U.S. banks subject to prudential rules and financial constraints that caused them to withdraw much of the Chinese market, Temasek relies heavily on Chinese banks. There has been increasing its stake in these past two years, to the point now earn $ 21 billion of shares ICBC, China Construction bank or Bank of China.

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Video Games: Microsoft unveils Xbox One

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In the U.S., in a live show of its headquarters in Redmond (USA), the computer giant Microsoft has lifted on Tuesday, part of the veil on its new home console will be sold just before the holiday season of 2013. Rumor had baptized 720 or Infinity the successor to the Xbox 360. This will ultimately Xbox One. A surname carefully chosen to better fit the identity of the machine. More than just a video game console, the One has the ambition to become the all-in-one capable of satisfying the desires and wishes of digital entertainment to a whole family. Completely controllable by voice (but a joystick is available), the new Xbox will light when one of the owners called. Suffice it to say "Xbox on" or in French "Xbox, ignition" for the home screen, similar to a smartphone running Windows Mobile, appears. Always voice, simple controls allow you to switch between a video game, a TV, a program guide or film broadcast in HD from Blu-ray player. Demonstration carried on stage by Yusuf Mehdi, vice president of marketing of the brand, is stirring. The screen switches from one program to another in a micro-second, almost instantly and without shudder or commit a mistake in recognizing the voice of his master. A "snap" mode, which is activated with the Systems reconnaissace Kinect gestures, allows him to display a small window on the screen to surf the Net. "Just then grab his smartphone, Windows obviously, to take control and manage all of your mobile as a remote control. Not surprisingly, play with Xbox One. Securities will, Microsoft promises, more interesting, more detailed and immersive than ever. The first images of war game Call of Duty Ghosts, one of the most anticipated games each year, or simulation racing Forza Motorsport 5 are promising indeed. As one of the ads is that those responsible for the Xbox division of Microsoft were most proud of: the next collaboration with director Steven Spielberg making a TV series based on the history of the game star of Microsoft home Halo. One way to close the loop for Xbox One who wants to become more essential interface between an internet box and a TV, the new creative link between the world of video games, TV and film. Fans of digital entertainment must now wait on June 11, the date of the opening in Los Angeles (California) at E3, the international exhibition of video games, to know a bit more about the capabilities of the beast will be with the Sony Playstation 4, one of the two stars of this annual event.

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Cahuzac: to Harlem Désir, the former minister “took the right decision”

The first secretary of the PS, Harlem Désir, said Sunday that Jerome Cahuzac had "made the right decision, in accordance with its commitments," not only representing the legislative part in his constituency of Lot-et-Garonne. "This is consistent with the commitments made on 16 April to the TV, not to stand for public office: he made the right decision," said Harlem Désir told AFP. Socialist leader "now called the whole left to gather around Bernard Barral (the PS candidate, ed) in order to keep the riding left." "As in any election, there is an issue of participation and avoid the dispersion," he said. "The campaign can now take on the real issues: how and what political candidate," he was welcomed. Mr. Desire did not comment a possible return of Jerome Cahuzac in Villeneuve-sur-Lot in the municipal 2014. He did not want to respond to the comments of the former minister, who said he had to return to France his money deposited abroad and after paying his debt, he would donate a Any remaining balance to charity.

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Cannes Film Festival 2013: The hard blade of poverty

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Would you like to rent the yacht of a billionaire? To put on a Chanel bag? Those are the questions with which we are confronted every day in Cannes. Rent a room overlooking the red carpet, invite a few friends and a few thousand experience a delightful half-hour! In the dry, yet to what you have to add these days, it rains namely again.

Similar questions need to put less directly, to despair the Chinese. Being with normal Chinese citizens of the Empire are meant not "the Chinese" found in the Cannes of course because of their immense market power most attention. The Chinese, who live in a country that has undergone a change over the last thirty years, all but a few steals your breath – for they are interested Jia Zhangke.

His competition entry "Tian Zhu Ding" (A Touch of Sin) is one of those films were all looking forward to. Jia has always had to struggle with censorship in the past, "A Touch of Sin" but is a co-production of Jia's Xstream and the substantially state-funded Centre Shanghai Film Group. The involvement of the studio speaks mostly sure that the script has run through the official Absegnungsprozess. So what Jia would show this time?

First, we see an overturned tomato truck, the driver is somewhere under a cloth and is apparently dead the tomatoes but are decorative in the landscape, and a man standing next to it, throwing a copy of the blood-red vegetables like a juggler in the air. Blood red is a recurring color in Jia's film, and here there are only tomatoes.

The first story is this juggler struggling so heroically but unsuccessfully against corruption in his mining town, finally picks up the gun and some bureaucrats, a man who abused his horse, an accountant, and his wife, and finally the boss of the mining company in the Maserati killed.

We leave the juggler who Dohai is, as he spattered with blood like a Tarantino film in the back seat of this strange vehicle, which equals before the factory a UFO, his gun laying in the womb and through the organic goo through the window into the dusty landscape looks.

As a result, we are not a big social drama, but a great film to watch as he, their dignity are those people over which rise the rich. On the way home, past the beggars who have taken up residence in the entrance niches of real estate transactions on the Rue d'Antibes, one wonders: What if one of them would not be drunk, but should rise a sword delay and the force of Smoking carriers, who has just assumed his vice begging cigar box, massacred?

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SYRIA: Towards a partition of Syria?

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More than two years after the conflict began, Syria is totally transformed. The conflict, which seems endless, caused the death of more than 80 000people according to a latest report. So can we still speak of a single Syria? In fact, the country is divided. "What the country is experiencing today is already a real partition even if it is not official," an indignant Tuesday, May 15 Randa Kassis on France Culture. In a program devoted to Syria, anthropologist and Syrian opponent was an alarming report of the division of the country. "The Kurdish area enjoys partial autonomy, the coastal zone is under the control of the regime, as well as the heart of Damascus, and if it goes south and areas of Druze population is ambiguous." The northern front out of control

A finding shared by Fabrice Balanche, Syria specialist and director of Gremmo. "There is already a de facto partition between the North and the South, which is installed in the period since July 2012 with the fall of the province of Raqqa." Seen by the rebels as "liberated territory", northern Syria escapes from month-long control of the regime. Almost all border crossings communicating with Turkey have been taken by the rebels during the spring and summer 2012. The rebellion, which had already found in Turkey a rear base, was able to move more easily weapons, supplies and fighters often jihadists to combat zones, including in Aleppo.

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In Europe, two-thirds of homosexuals do not dare hold hands in public

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"The fear, isolation and discrimination are common phenomena in the LGBT community in Europe," said Morten Kjaerum, Director of the Agency for Fundamental Rights of the EU (FRA), which conducted the survey, presented as the largest ever carried out among Member States of the EU and Croatia. According to him, we must now take action at European level in order to "break down barriers, eliminate hatred and create a society in which everyone can fully enjoy their rights."

Negative experiences, social prejudice, exclusion is at school it all begins. "The constant insults were unbearable and very few measures were taken by the teachers against stalkers," said a gay living in Malta 25 years. He added: "I had to stay in the closet until the age of 18 years because of harassment."

The study also shows that people living in the Benelux and Scandinavian countries, but also in Spain suffered less discrimination and violence than those living in some eastern countries like Lithuania or Croatia. The Czech Republic is as such an exception. World Day against Homophobia forces, 300 people from organizations and the European Union will meet on Saturday in The Hague to discuss the action.

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Latécoère: the reasons for the departure of the head of the OEM Toulouse

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The least we can say is that the departure of the CEO of Latécoère, François Bertrand was brutal Thursday. And that does not happen in the serenity between a historical leaders Toulouse aeronautical equipment and the Supervisory Board. We understand better the dry press release issued Thursday. However, in Latécoère, his departure is not really a surprise as the relationship between François Bertrand and Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Pierre Gadonneix was very deteriorated in recent weeks, explains t be in "The Tribune". Finally, Pierre Gadonneix had skin CEO who was heavily criticized on its management in recent months.

Gadonneix and the Supervisory Board have criticized such François Bertrand, according to several sources, not go fast enough in sanitation accounts Latécoère, past the brink of bankruptcy in 2009, when the group recorded a loss of over 90 million, and 2010. In 2012, the aerospace supplier saw its profits fall but is optimistic for 2013 assuming a further increase in sales and improved operating profitability. The net profit of the group was divided by two more in 2012, to 3.1 million euros against 6.6 million a year earlier. So the successor – Bertrand Parmentier – to move up a gear. It is even very clear in the statement: "Latécoère will under his leadership, the implementation of transformation plans for combining operational excellence and customer satisfaction programs ROI The Executive will promote effective financial structure." . Understood, it was not entirely the case previously.

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Europe: François Hollande neither ambitious nor realistic

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Such a policy would it be able to be a turning point in the policy of the euro area, to make it evolve into "less austerity and more growth," as the French president said? Nothing is less certain. Strengthening the "economic governance" seems now operating. First, because this instance is largely already in place with the Eurogroup. Then, because the coordination of economic governance was also largely imposed in the decisions made by the European Council and the Eurogroup. It's still the reason why the austerity has been implemented in many European countries and the entire euro zone into recession. In other words, the problem of European politics is not institutional, it observes the balance of power within these institutions.

However, France is not in a strong position. The presentation by the President of the Republic has made its European influence was from this point of view, visionary. He "claimed" jumble lower rates, the bailout of Greece, the change in the policy of the ECB, the banking union. In fact, every time, it is the decision of Germany, under pressure from the markets or German voters, which was decisive. The ECB on Greece, a little less on the banking union, France was inaudible or discrete. The Cypriot case was a caricature of this view. However, as it will be so, all instances of European decisions will be implemented, they will only reflect more or less force the position of Berlin. It is difficult to see how any case, today, an instance of European governance would change European politics.

The same should be done on the proposal for a broader EU budget, leading to a "borrowing clean", ie Eurobonds. The project "European Energy Community" must be integrated into this proposal as to be economically efficient, it will establish a "socialization" means on the subject. But again, the battle has already been lost in the discussion on the budgetary framework where Angela Merkel and David Cameron have joined forces to fight the same proposal. That same Thursday, a few hours before the speech by Francois Hollande, Merkel again showed how she felt close to David Cameron telling Düsseldorf he "should not be too quick to criticize the British, because we can consider all the means improve the EU. "In other words, the London-Berlin axis in the European budget is good. On Eurobonds, the project returns to the objectives of the French government after being buried in June by Jean-Marc Ayrault. But there is no more operative: Germany rejects, although SPD intends to defend the idea. A majority of Germans do not want to hear and reject the "transfer union" that wants to Paris. close the bank, there will therefore be no Eurgroupe.

Remains initiative for youth employment is already being prepared in Brussels. But it is hard to believe that 3 or 6 billion will reduce a phenomenon which in some countries is considerable proportions. The problem of course is far from being the only one in this area that is also within cultural practices and especially growth prospects. To act on youth employment, it must first provide opportunities for businesses. Otherwise it will be just a plaster. However, as we have seen, the French president projects provide little hope for a growth initiative.

The French president said finally want to give a "content" and "ambitions" in Europe. His proposals seem far from being able to afford it. In fact, wanting to keep a balance between "serious budget" and "growth", wanting to spare Angela Merkel and Germany, France can really challenge the "political problem" that the president has identified.

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