Tire group Michelin has announced the introduction of a "decent wage" for its 132 employees. A universal protection base is also on the way. Here's everything you need to know
According to rumors, the French government has strengthened its presence in the eyewear giant through the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations which has exceeded 2% of the capital
The former French President, Francois Hollande, wants to lend a hand to his old socialist comrades in the next European elections: for now he will support the rising star Raphael Glucksman, who is flying in the polls. We will see later and it cannot be ruled out that Hollande aims…
The tax on companies' extra profits exists but does not guarantee appreciable results. The government announces an increase in taxes on energy companies and companies react
Two almost twin operations in two countries that are increasingly similar. Gianluigi Aponte in Italy and Rodolphe Saadé in France, aboard their enormous shipping companies, travel to conquer publishing through acquisitions
Macron flies to Brazil from Lula for three days full of events spread across four cities, including Belem, at the gates of the Amazon. Wars, EU-Mercosur agreement, Haiti and climate are the hot topics. The two presidents linked by the decline in…
Clothing is a strong sector of the European economy. Discarded clothes, however, cause pollution. EU rules are expected and France gives the first strong signal
There is a lot of talk about technology and electronic money up to cryptocurrency but few know the history of the banknote and who introduced it: the economist John Law
Macron shows his muscles to Russia but does not lose sight of the path of diplomatic negotiation to silence the branches in Ukraine. Quite the opposite of what Salvini and Conte are doing in Italy with their pro-Putin outbursts
After OpenAi, new investment in the sector for Microsoft. The Redmond giant will support the integration of Mistral language models into its Azure AI platform. Mistral the "French champion" promoted by Macron aims to be a European point of reference in…
In an article published on the French site LeJournal.info, journalist Marcelle Padovani talks about the renaissance of Italian cinema. From "There's Still Tomorrow" to "Enea" and from "Io Capitano" to "Comandante", passing through the experience of Cinema America, quality is the…
Patriotism, respect for migrants, anti-fascism: there is all this in the gesture that French President Emmanuel Macron made yesterday by opening the doors of the Pantheon in Paris to the remains of an Armenian communist who together with 5 Italian partisans participated across the Alps...
The decision on appeal in the Bygmalion case: suspension of probation for 6 months out of 12. The former French president has already announced that he will appeal to the Supreme Court
A hypothetical intervention by the Italian state in the capital of Stellantis would be very expensive (over 6 billion euros) but could not even remotely influence the strategy of the Italian-French car manufacturer, given that the majority is firmly in the hands of the current shareholders
The France of Macron and Attal has a precise plan of interventions in the face of the tractor revolt that is spreading across half of Europe, but Italy is stuttering and still doesn't know exactly what to do
Tuscany and Piedmont drive the fine wines market, while Burgundy, Bordeaux and Champagne continued to record a physiological decline during 2023. Analysis by the eWibe Observatory
The appointment of Rachida Dati, investigated for corruption and recommended by former President Sarkozy, to the Ministry of Culture is perhaps the only flaw in the new French Government. But to say that it is the sign of Attal's turn to the right sounds excessive.…
Strategic investment for Stellantis Ventures, the Group's venture capital fund. Sodium ion batteries offer a lower cost per kilowatt hour and are free of lithium and cobalt. The response on Piazza Affari was positive
A very innovative and dynamic choice by French President Emmanuel Macron who crowns the young Minister of Education Gabriel Attal as prime minister, author of a recent ambitious school reform based on discipline and meritocracy
Following the resignation of Elisabeth Borne, Macron chooses the 34-year-old Attal, a champion of popularity: he is the first to be openly gay. He overcame the internal competition of Julien Denormandie (Agriculture) and Sébastien Lecornu (Defense)
With Delors and Schaeuble two pieces of history and two pieces of Europe are gone but above all Delors' ideal and realistic vision will remain in the memory for a long time
Farewell to the father of the euro, Jacques Delors, great pro-European, Mitterrand's Minister of Economy and President of the European Commission for 10 years. With the famous Delors Plan he became one of the major points of reference of the reformist and pro-European left
Decisive Ecofin meeting today to define the new Stability and Growth Pact - Deficit and debt parameters are crucial but France and Germany are already close to an agreement which Italy, despite sharing its substance, gives the impression of…
As international surveys on students' unpreparedness also reveal, Italian schools are not up to the standard of a modern society because they are thought of as a "tool for solving employment problems" of teachers rather than asking what education is really needed by students...
Faced with the worsening of its school system, Macron's France has decided on a very courageous change based on the rigor of studies and meritocracy. Exactly what Italy would also need but which isn't even commonplace here...
From December 8th no more WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram for government employees. A choice of security but also of "national sovereignty". The proposed alternative is in fact the French Olvid. Here because
Together with 11 other countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, Italy is "not fully in line" with EU recommendations and must be ready "to introduce the necessary measures"
The debate on energy is always current in France. Will the turning point on renewables really come? France and Germany are playing the big game in the electricity market
The words of the leader of the French populist left, Jean-Luc Melenchon, who justifies Hamas's terrorist assault on Israel by pharisaically putting the violence on the same level and pretending to forget that the aggressor has a name and his name is Hamas, are unseemly.
The program promoted by CDP, Bpifrance, ELITE-Euronext Group and Team France Export aims to encourage business development and the internationalization processes of companies in the two countries
What's happening to Meloni? She is no longer the pro-Draghi prime minister of the first months at Palazzo Chigi but why? It is the ghosts of the past and the competition on Salvini's right that push her towards shores that risk isolating her...
Former Prime Minister Mario Monti explains to Meloni how it is in Europe if you want to count but, prisoner as she is of her ghosts of the past and of Salvini's right-wing competition, will the underdog President understand?
The squeeze from Paris and Berlin puts Italy in difficulty, which has often circumvented the Dublin rules which oblige the country of first arrival to identify and detain landed migrants - Too much optimism in Von der's words...
Salvini is the deputy prime minister and the leader of the second government party and his invitation to Pontida to Le Pen is an insult not only to the reputation of the Meloni government but of Italy itself
The 2023 harvest faces the problems of heat waves and the dreaded downy mildew. Companies are looking for new sales channels and M&A is growing. The luxury groups focus (and argue) on wine
Gone are the days when Segolene Royal was a hope of the French socialists: now the lady wants to stand as a candidate in the European elections with the populist Melenchon under the banner of sovereignty who sympathizes with Putin and hates Zelensky
Giuliano Amato in an interview with La Repubblica tells his version of the tragedy of Ustica in which 81 people died. The Itavia jet sunk by a French missile. Craxi's role in saving Gaddafi. The first reactions
Invited to the L'Insoumis summer university, the former socialist announced that she was ready to lead a joint list with Melenchon. A move that took everyone (or almost) by surprise
Despite the restoration work on the cathedral now in its last phase, the Louvre museum is presenting an exhibition with 120 works from the treasury of Notre-Dame de Paris. The exhibition will be held from 18 October 2023 to 29 January 2024
In 2023 Bassins des Lumières of Bordeaux (France) celebrate the incomparable and singular works of Salvador Dalí. In collaboration with the Gala-Salvaor Dalì Foundation, it is open until 7 January 2024
A scandal engulfs Altice International, a French telecommunications multinational. The co-founder of the Group, Armando Pereira has been under house arrest in Portugal since July for alleged tax fraud, corruption and money laundering. French-Israeli billionaire Drahi feels "betrayed" and in "shock"…
The eyes of the whole world are now focused above all on France which has so far guaranteed the security of Niger with an eye to the raw materials of the African country and above all of the precious uranium - Seven coups d'état in Africa ...
The French presence in the country of uranium is at risk. The army sides with the coup plotters who toppled Western ally President Mohamed Bazoum. The Italian presence in Niger
Prime Minister Meloni's failure to invite Macron and Scholz to the Rome conference on migrants is a childish spite that can cost Italy dearly in the face of the heavy dossiers that are on the table in Brussels and which…
Heavy losses on the stock market for the luxury champions in France - from Hermes to Lvmh - and in Italy - from Cucinelli to Moncler - after the new slowdown in the Chinese economy
Stellantis' investments are guided not by economic patriotism but by competitiveness: this is what the CEO of the French-Italian automotive group told French minister Le Maire and will say to minister Urso on Monday
President Macron meets 241 mayors of the hardest-hit cities as the country questions its future and the divisions undermining social and political stability
The revolt of the very young in France after the death of Nahel does not stop. More looting and assaults on commercial establishments. The Elysée bans demonstrations in Marseille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg and other cities
An avoidable tragedy that requires clarity and reforms in the rules of engagement of the police - President Macron has also condemned the work of the police
The stock markets are all in the red: the slowdown of industry in the heart of Europe weighs but also the drop in oil and the uncertainty about the next moves of the central banks - Siemens Energy collapses: -37%
After her speech in support of Rome's candidacy for Expo 2030, the prime minister meets the French president, Emmanuel Macron, at the Elysée: "Italy and France need to talk because our common interests are many and converging"
The 190 km connection between the two countries will be the longest direct current power line in the world via cable and will be invisible as it will be integrated into the existing motorway infrastructure.The Edison Award, the main recognition in the electricity sector, is…
After 18 years, Électricité de France SA leaves the stock exchange. Delistig completed: public intervention "necessary" to ensure France's energy independence. At the end of the month the new business plan
The exhibition with 60 masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum opens in Paris. The meeting between the two heads of state strengthens friendship on major issues and leaves the controversy over immigration to the government.
Former president Maio Draghi will speak at the convention "The Global shock up - Where will the pieces fall?" talking about the upheavals of recent years
The landing in Normandy was a surprise for the Germans - Churchill spoke about it at noon in the House of Commons, then informed Stalin and on June 10th he reached France: the messages with Roosevelt and the negotiations with De Gaulle…
France is the first country in the world to enact a law regulating the activity of influencers. Failure to comply could result in up to two years of imprisonment and a fine of 300 euros
The French Foreign Minister, Catherine Colonna, has distanced herself from the fiery Interior Minister Darmanin and opened a new, finally constructive, phase of collaborative relations with Italy
After the tensions of recent months, the foreign ministers of Italy and France are trying to ease the tension with a bilateral meeting at the Farnesina
The appeal to the Supreme Court implies the suspension of the sentence, but if it is confirmed, the former French president will be forced to wear an electronic bracelet for a year
France of business: Bolloré sells logistics and closes negotiations on the Tim network. French-Lebanese rising star Saadé arrives in Marseille, making big business and entering publishing
A report by the Infrastructure Council proposes to postpone the construction of the section to the new Mont Cenis tunnel by ten years, expected by 2032. Salvini's anger: "France respects the agreements". But then the French minister Beaune denies: "The…
A very harsh comment from Macron's party leader arrives from Paris: "Meloni's policy is unjust, inhuman and ineffective". The Spanish Labor Minister attacks the May 1 decree: "It favors junk contracts". - But Meloni extinguishes the controversy: "I am…
Who goes up for professional excellence, vision of the future and moral rigor and who goes down for the lack of one or two of these requirements. Hats off for the president of Napoli, De Laurentiis, for the financier Tamburi and for…
The attack comes from the transalpine interior minister who is not new to such sorties and seems to arise from entirely French reasons to divert attention from the clash on pensions - Tajani cancels the trip to the French capital: "Unacceptable words"
After the pandemic, which has brought many of the smallest Italian production companies to their knees, the French have resumed shopping for our country's SMEs - Lanzillotta (IREFI) comments: "French investments in Italy have the function of…
With his resignation, the head of the CDT acknowledges the failure of the tough battle against the pension reform wanted by Macron and a woman, Marylise Leon, is a candidate for the leadership of the first French union
Macron spoke on TV to unified networks to try to appease the anger of the French after the ok to the pension reform: "It will come into force in the autumn. We are opening 3 construction sites on work, justice and progress". Unions and opposition still on the barricades
Macron won: the Constitutional Council approved his reform and rejected the request for a popular referendum - The retirement age also rises to 64 in France and the maximalist trade union and political wing that promoted 12 strikes against…
INTERVIEW FRANCO FERRAROTTI , father of sociology in Italy - "We are facing an inert power that instead of tackling and solving problems is content to last as in Andreotti's time" - "The Meloni government floats and does not…
Almost 90% of Parisians voted No in the consultative referendum banning the use of rental e-scooters: they are dangerous, they are thrown everywhere and they are not even that sustainable. However, the turnout was low, only 8%.
The April 5 meeting between the Government and the trade unions and the April 14 pronouncement of the Constitutional Council on the pension reform will tell whether it is time for France to thaw or whether rancor and social resentment will prevail over…
Until September 18, 2023, the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix invites visitors to visit the gallery and see the work of the Romantic painter through a selection of works by delving into the social moment of his country's political period and the process…
The French president explains on TV the reason for the pension reform which he defined as "not a luxury, not a pleasure, but a necessity in the interest of the nation" - "Now we are waiting for the Constitutional Council" - Yes to dissent but no to…
Amidst strikes and protests against the pension reform, France is experiencing a new May '68, albeit with a very different sign and Macron doesn't know how to find his way back to normality: today's TV interview
The two no-confidence motions against Macron are rejected. Now all that is needed is the verdict of the Constitutional Court for the controversial pension reform to become law. But the problem is political: what will the President do now? Will the premier change or not? Expected…
France at the crossroads: in the next few hours two no-confidence motions will try to send home not only the pension reform but Macron's majority with possible recourse to early elections - But the precedent of the motion's boomerang…
The French government bypassed the National Assembly vote - Oppositions announce no-confidence motions - Unions on the barricades and privileges in the balance
Landini's CGIL made the Spanish model a banner in the fight against precariousness but did not realize its limits - Solidarity with the French trade unions on strike against the pension reform is even paradoxical because it denies…
The deal is worth $25 a share, for a total of $2,9 billion. Provention Bio has the only drug already approved in the US that delays the onset of type 1 diabetes in stage 3 for adults and 2 for children and…
The sixth day of the strike of 2023 could be the most attended - France paralyzed by protests, over 260 demonstrations across the country against the pension reform
Italy and Germany vote against the regulation on CO2 emissions which would have taken effect on March 7, outlawing heat engines from 2035 - Uncertainties also in France and Italy proposes a transitional solution
Schlein's surprising victory in the Pd primaries will have effects not only on the left but on the entire Italian political scene and raises four considerations: here are the ones
La San Marco, a prestigious brand in the professional espresso machine sector, passes to the French SEB: the owner Massimo Zanetti has decided to sell to focus on Segafredo, the symbol of Italian espresso coffee
The pension reform presented by Macron, opposed by a large part of the population, is reasonable but, unlike what happened in Italy, the French unions have turned against it and are making its approval problematic
