Lorraine: hot-air balloon pants
The Nancy-based company Dao reinvents the pants and has just made a pair of pants from a hot-air balloon envelope in collaboration with the Grand Est Mondial Air Ballons.
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Nord stream 2: US concedes but Germany commits to support Ukraine
Washington has agreed with Berlin on the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline for Russian gas, under the Baltic. In exchange Germany has promised investments and political support for Ukraine.
Putin annexes the champagne
A law signed on July 2, 2021, states that, from now on, all sparkling wines made in Russia will be stamped “Champagne”. As for the real Champagne, it becomes a simple “sparkling wine”.
The biggest magnet in the world comes to France
ITER or the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, currently under construction at Cadarache in the South of France, is getting ready to receive the biggest magnet in the world.
Ex-Prime Minister Fillon to join Russian hydrocarbon company
Former french Prime Minister François Fillon is to join the board of directors of the Russian oil company Zaroubejneft, according to a Russian government decree. He is the nominee of the Russian government. Zaroubejneft specializes in the development and exploitation of oil and gas fields particularly overseas.
Food industry: margins are collapsing
“How to reconcile food sovereignty, better remuneration for the agricultural world while meeting the challenges of tomorrow when 2021 marks the 8th consecutive year of deflation for our industry,” asks the National Association of Food Industries (ANIA)? Undoubtedly by increasing prices in stores.
Nancy : Fired because of Covid
“Do you realize what a mess you’ve made? “This is how an employee of the ByMyCar company in Nancy-Laxou (54) was greeted by her manager after a period of isolation due to Covid.
Covid: meals officially incriminated
The vice is tightening around the places and situations of contamination of Covid-19. In a recent study, the Pasteur Institute targets contamination in enclosed spaces and during meals. Interview with Dr. Jean-Michel Wendling, Occupational Health Specialist in Strasbourg.
Strasbourg : fire on the site of the company OVH Cloud
Significant material and human resources were deployed during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday to contain a major fire on the site of the company OVH, which specializes in hosting computer servers, rue du Bassin de l’industrie in Strasbourg. Major damage but no injuries.
The first Zero Covid experimental restaurant is in Alsace
The Maison des Têtes in Colmar is the first innovative restaurant that concentrates unique technological solutions in the world around 5 areas of prevention.
In the second quarter of 2020, GDP contracted by 13.8%.
Total production of goods and services is falling sharply. The contraction is particularly strong in construction (-24.1% after -12.8%), but the production of goods also falls (-16.8% after -5.6%) and the production of market services also falls sharply (-13.4% after -5.0%) according to INSEE.
Shortage of masks : beyond imagining!
A survey by the Union of Nursing Professionals shows that nurses lack everything: masks, hydro-alcoholic gel, over-blouses etc. The SNPI spokesman, Thierry Amouroux, speaks of a “state scandal”.