Seven thousand people according to organizers, 2,200 according to police, demonstrated Saturday afternoon at the Paris Montparnasse to Bastille to call the FSU, the main federation of education, calling for “a real overhaul of the school.”

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“Peillon Peillon, you must quickly swept all reforms Chatel … Booklet skills development competition,” proclaimed one in megaphone. And sing with a band of street: “Jobs, wages, it’s a hassle, teachers are angry, Peillon, talk about rebuilding, since no improvement.”

“BACK TO ALL REFORMS DECADE”

Guislaine, professor of history and geography came from Agen, said he was “extremely disappointed eu educational policy implemented by Peillon. Should go much further and much faster return on all reform for ten years, stand, college, high school reform is a disaster, “she says.

The claims were many: the demonstrators demanded the maintenance of the network of CIO (information and referral center), the opening of discussions on the college and high school, wage negotiations or pre-recruitment of teachers, as Marianne, school teacher retired, who cares deal with unfilled positions: “My son has the whole school to do, I’d like him to have teachers.”

Delegations from the federation and its unions had made the trip from the suburbs and the province: Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Aquitaine, Vaucluse, C te d’Or, Lyon …? including many delegations from secondary SNES-FSU union.

“REFORM OF SCHOOL TIME AT ANY crushed”

“We want to show that it is not enough because there are 60,000 new jobs as a professor and a bill discussed in Parliament that the education system is fundamentally changed,” says Bernadette Groison secretary general of the FSU federation officials claiming 163,000 members, 80% in education, within ten unions of teachers and other staff, from kindergarten to higher education.

“We must go beyond what is advertised and that goes in the right direction: priority to primary school, rehabilitation of the initial training is urgently wants to open a site on the priority education. the school board, “she adds.

“We need educational focus is readable, the reform of school timetables everything crashed,” said Sebastien Sihr general secretary SNUipp-FSU, the first primary union. “The revision of programs, rehabilitation of the kindergarten, schooling for less than three years, the ‘over my? Very class that’ who are now charge for the year, must apply in practice as from September 2013 and should especially support teachers to implement these priorities music, “he asked, claiming” plans training very robust at the back. “

Signing and his death sentence, the Swiss bank Wegelin & Co. Private Bankers, founded in 1741, Thursday, January 3 agreed to plead guilty to using the tax evasion in U.S. courts. The private bank, headquartered in St. Gallen, pleaded guilty to violating U.S. law by opening and maintaining accounts for U.S. customers between 2002 and 2010. This agreement puts an end to criminal proceedings initiated by the Attorney for the Southern disctrict of New York and U.S. tax authorities, said the establishment in a statement.

The bank, which was scuttled in January 2012 after the indictment of three of his advisers, will have to pay a penalty of approximately $ 57.8 million (44 million euros). The sum includes in particular the return of $ 20 million for uncollected taxes and a fine of $ 22 million. It will also preserve the data on U.S. clients in pending further instructions from the Swiss authorities.

In detail, the U.S. authorities accuse Wegelin have opened and managed in 2008 and 2009 accounts for U.S. taxpayers in an attempt to capture a survey customers lost by UBS after it was placed under the blow for the suspicion of tax evasion. Wegelin has no office in the United States but operated through an account held at UBS in Stamford, Connecticut.

Wegelin employees praised their customers that their accounts are not reported to the IRS because the bank had a long tradition of banking secrecy. She also argued that, unlike UBS, it does not have an office in the United States and at the same time was less exposed to the supervision of the U.S. authorities.

The United States believes that Wegelin concealed 1.2 billion dollars in its undeclared offshore accounts.

EXOTIC debits

The indictment further drives the nail denunciation Wegelin ant attempts to conceal accounts, including putting them in the name of fake companies and foundations with exotic debits – Hong Kong or Panama – and using code names fa? is to minimize the visibility of the incumbents in the documentation of the bank in Switzerland. Moreover, the statements were not sent directly to account holders in the United States, and all correspondence between the client and the bank was by email.

The IRS has declared war on the Swiss banks on tax evasion and received hundreds of millions of dollars by negotiating agreements in exchange for dropping the charges. In February 2009, UBS agreed to pay EUR 780 million in fines, penalties, interest and compensation to U.S. authorities. Wegelin is nevertheless the first bank to plead guilty to justice.

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Le Monde is pleased t served: with the exception of the building from the street of Italy (Paris, 9), which was in his time (1911), an avant-garde building, all the places of the editorial group occupied are represented in the exhibition “Work in Process”, which is both reflection and praise the quality of architecture applied to offices, corporate offices and administrations.

Not really a subject smiling, but it is one of the missions of the Pavillon de l’Arsenal that also inform these harsh aspects of architecture. Under his anglophile title, this exhibition represents the first systematic work of remarkable inventory: there are 52 million square meters of office space in the Paris region (the famous Grand Paris), and the first mission of Commissioners will Arsenal was to analyze the quantitative and technical aspects of this huge mass that has nothing to envy to London. Figures to make you dizzy.

ITS IMPACT ON WORKERS

So the real purpose of the exhibition is it closer to needy who use morning and evening Parisian transport, their living, their comfort. Labasse Alexander, director of the institution, quotes …

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High cliff, or almost vertical rocky escarpment, according to the “Treasury of the French language? Computerized comfortable”, the word is “probably derived from the Frankish” falisa “(rock)” to the French Academy? Comfortable.

In the United States, the House of Representatives approved the agreement found in the night of December 31, 2012 to January 1, the Senate and the White House, allowing the country to escape the “fiscal cliff” or 600 billion (460 billion euros) increases imp? ts and public spending cuts contained in a law of 2011, to come into force on 2 January in case of failure.

TAX MORALE

A search on the wire news agencies – January 4 – from keywords “fiscal cliff” gives 8213 news (84 million pages on Google) and only twelve its literal translation fran ais “fiscal cliff? “. The “fiscal Wall” total 2243 articles. Fall or shock? The cliff has the advantage of combining the two ab images? Me and obstacle.

The agreement provides for an increase in the book imp? T income families who earn more than 450,000 dollars a year and expanding insurance joblessness long term 2 million people for one year. It allows exchanges in the world and 90% of Americans at risk of seeing their imp? Ts increase of 2000 dollars per year for a household to avoid … fiscal malaise.

They have started this year in over a hundred cities around the world. Seoul to Rio, from Toronto to New Delhi, the Slut Walks, “the steps sluts”, brought together thousands of women. In France, in October, for the first time, these strange rallies were held in ten cities. Women marched in bra, in short, in a miniskirt, shouting “This is not an invitation to rape”, “A slut is not a victim,” “Our bodies belong to us”, “Enough of excuses for rapists. “In London, the protesters have called this movement “the fourth wave of feminism.”

The walkers do not want that makes them responsible for attacks they suffer – street harassment, insults, rape – because they wear sexy clothes. They require that men learn to stand. They assume to be attractive, exciting if they wish – and with whom they want.

Sonya …

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The North Korean elite has to behave. The Security Council of the UN is preparing to adopt new measures to sanctions against officials of the communist regime, its diplomats and politicians contributing, through their “illegal activities”, the development of nuclear and missile programs in Korea North. Resolution under Chapter VII – a legally binding text – expected to be adopted Thursday, March 7, is the result of three weeks of Sino-US negotiations, which started after the third North Korean nuclear test.

The proposed measures “will be moving to a higher level and never reached so far” the sanctions already imposed by the United Nations in Pyongyang, said U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice.

A little more tt, the pariah state had threatened to denounce the armistice agreement signed in 1953 to end the Korean War if the maneuvers carried out by the annual military …

The expression Once released at the turn of the report: it is a “museum clean” operation called for by the environmentalist Senator Corinne Bouchoux. Sixty-seven years after the end of World War II, the rapporteur of the fact-finding mission on looted art by the Nazis invites administration and French museums? Ais to give a “new impetus” to the search for the source of some tables housed in public institutions.

Of all European countries, France has been most systematically looted: 100,000 stolen works and trainloads of paintings, sculptures, furniture sent to Germany. After the Liberation, more than 60 000 pieces were found, 75% returned to their owners. But sometimes families had been decimated. 15,000 remained orphan works. The administration sold 13,000, the least important. Finally, some 2,100 were placed in lodgment in museums, under the label “national recovery Museums” (MNR), “a kind of babysitting …

Three televisions and three South Korean banks were victims, Wednesday, March 20, a massive hacking, from China. The authors are unknown, but in a context of rising tensions with North Korea’s neighbor, the cyberattack reminded South Koreans vulnerability.

The climate in the peninsula concerned China, Pyongyang’s only ally. Wednesday, during a telephone conversation with South Korean President Park Geun-hye, his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping offered to mediate between Seoul and Pyongyang. At the same time, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un overseeing military exercise conducted using drones against a fake South Korean target. On Thursday, the North Korean army said they could hit the U.S. naval base in Okinawa, Japan, and Guam in? Marianas.

Andrei Lankov of Kookmin University, Pyongyang engages in his usual posturing …

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Cirque du Soleil announced Wednesday, Jan. 16, it would cut 400 jobs, mostly at its headquarters in Montreal, due to strong dollar Canada, the global economic crisis and the rise of co? ts production of his shows.

The company founded in 1984 by Guy Lalibert?? Quebec now has 5,000 employees worldwide, including 2,000 in Montreal. The public relations director of the Canadian multinational entertainment, Ren??e-Claude M??nard, denied at a press briefing that the Circus is in crisis, but acknowledged that 2012 was the first its history during which the Cirque had not released the profits.

The 400 job cuts, which will affect all areas of the business and should be clarified by the end of March, in addition to 50 others occurred before Christmas. Three shows walked “worse than expected” for “various reasons,” she added.

The spokesman said that the business model of Cirque du Soleil has evolved a lot over the past five years, adding that some partners in Las Vegas were not available to participate in co? Ts of production and that the company would seek other. She wants to significantly reduce co? Ts, representing approximately 50 million dollars (38 million euros) per show, to arrive at a range from 25 million to 30 million Canadian dollars. – (AFP.)

The African response preparation against armed Islamist groups occupying northern Mali requires an estimated 500 million financing (375.4 million), said Sunday a West African official.

An “initial assessment” is required to “about $ 500 million” (about 375 million), said the President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Desire Kadr?? Ouedraogo. “But this may vary depending on the needs” on the ground, he said on state television RTI Ivorian.

Requirements for the operations of the International Mission Support Mali (Misma) were previously assessed between 150 and 200 million euros. The European Union has decided to participate in funding to the tune of 50 million euros. “The international community must take action,” said Mr Ouedraogo. A donor conference is scheduled for January 29 in Addis Ababa under the auspices of the African Union, to accelerate the mobilization of funds.

2000 MEMBERS MISMA

La Misma is expected to take over the French military? Ais fighting since January 11, with Malian soldiers armed Islamist groups in the North.

In addition, Mr. Ouedraogo announced that the C te d’Ivoire – who had indicated it would not provide troops to Misma – “has expressed its intention to contribute with a logistics battalion,” when Extraordinary Summit of ECOWAS on Mali, held Saturday in Abidjan. This is a “very significant contribution” of the country currently chairing ECOWAS, he said without elaborating further on Ivorian battalion.

Some 2,000 members of the Misma must be made by 26 January to Mali. More than 150 soldiers have arrived in Bamako, with fifty of the 500 Senegalese promised Dakar.

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