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.
Coffee shops and restaurants in the capital can extend their terraces on the public highway to compensate for the operating losses linked to Covid. But sometimes things get out of hand.
Point of view. What about the government’s announcements to revive rail freight, short lines and night trains? Deciphered by the general secretary of the FIRST transport union.
July 2021: the return of the Grand Est Mondial Air Ballons from July 23rd to August 1st on the Chambley aerodrome (Lorraine / Grand Est Region / France).
Point-of-view. The train has long been used to transport the sick and wounded to hospitals and pilgrims to Lourdes, as Bernard Aubin rightly reminds us in his chronicle.
That’s exactly the wrong thing to do. Announcing the use of 49-3 in the open on a late Saturday afternoon, after a cabinet meeting on coronavirus, is a major blunder that Macronesia will pay a heavy price for. At the ballot box. And in the street.
The Ecole de Nancy has left us an exceptional legacy, including the Villa Majorelle, now owned by the City of Nancy.
The Middle Kingdom has invested its capital in multinationals and consolidated its investments in Europe to take global economic leadership. But a nasty virus is now infecting the big machine.
Strikes, demonstrations and various actions are planned from 15 to 20 February 2020, in Paris and in the provinces. Reminder of the main events scheduled.
Opposition to pension reform is taking a political turn with the examination of the bill … Read more
The mobilization continues against the pension reform project as the “financing conference” opens on Thursday 30. Bad luck for the government after the severe opinion of the Council of State.
Workers who move are younger, more qualified, but also more often unemployed (INSEE).
