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The group of environmental services warned on Friday: in 2011 it will not reach the objectives it set itself in terms of growth in profits. It's something confirmed on Thursday, while the specialist services in the water, waste and transport unveiled a net loss of 67.2 million euros in its first half, due to early provisions past for its plan to focus geographically, and non-recurring write-downs. Without these items, which account for 800.3 million euros, Veolia announced a net profit of 188.1 million euros, still always decline (-28%). Sales for the period rose for its 4.4% on a comparable basis to 16.28 billion euros (+15.5% at constant exchange rates).

A voluntary separation plan envisaged

As announced last week, the group led by Antoine Frérot said to have encountered difficulties in Southern Europe, North Africa and the United States, that led it to implement further restructuring and strengthen the redeployment of its activities to concentrate on "a small number of countries."

By 2013, Veolia Environnement wants to actually be present in fewer than 40 countries, against 77 at present. For example, he announced a withdrawal "significant" in some areas and trades, such as the withdrawal of transport activities in Morocco, cleanliness in Egypt, or Marine Services in the United States and southern Europe. This acceleration of focus is not without consequences on the accounts.In a statement, Veolia said that 686 million euros in writedowns were recorded under the operational difficulties encountered in Italy, the United States and Morocco. Hence the fall in operating profit recorded over one year of 1.101 billion to 252 million euros.

As part of its reorganization, the group also announced it would establish voluntary severance schemes in France, in the water sector.

Doubts about the dividend

Given these results and further steps that need to be implemented, Veolia will therefore not committed to a growth in profits for the year 2011.Not surprisingly, however, the group confirms its other annual goals, including organic growth of its business and asset sales for at least 1.3 billion euros, a positive free cash flow after payment of the dividend.

At the meeting presenting the results, Antoine Frérot explained, however, he was not able to guarantee that Veolia would maintain its dividend in 2011 at the same level as that of € 1 paydayloans.21 paid in 2011.

Other objectives, Veolia is a recurring operating income "slightly down" at constant exchange rates (excluding the consolidation of Transdev Veolia confirms that the group will introduce a stock exchange), and finally, cost savings of 250 million euros.On this last point, Veolia plans to accelerate its cost savings in the longer term, with an expected positive effect on operating profit of at least 150 million euros in 2013 and 250 to 300 million in 2015, and more of 250 million mentioned above.

The title Veolia has lost 25% of its value in five days

Despite the warning last week, and the fall of 9.5% of the title that had followed, investors have been very hard on the tooth that bad publication. After opening down sharply from 8.04% to 13.15 euros, the title was abandoned among the first on Thursday in a market panic. Veolia ends with an impressive plummeting 18.88% to 11.60 euros.

Overall, Veolia has lost a third of its value within five sessions …These results are disappointing especially since yesterday, Suez Environnement, the French rival Veolia has published interim results rather reassuring, thanks to the good performance of the water division, and finished the session at the Paris Bourse rose 0.68%, despite a plunge of more than 2% of the Cac 40.

Since Friday, the penalty did not expect that the part of analysts, with numerous recommendations degradation. Monday, Goldman Sachs withdrew Veolia from its list of preferred European values, lowering its recommendation to neutral, for a revised price target of 26 to 20.50 euros. For his part, Oddo has also lowered its recommendation from neutral to reduce to a revised target of 24 to 15 euros. CM-CIC Securities is left to buy but has revised its target price of 24.1 to 19.6 euros. BNP Paribas expects a still under-performance but reduced its target from 21 to 15 euros.Finally, HSBC rose Tuesday from overweight to neutral, slashing its target from 21 to 17 euros.

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The European Union has embarked on a spring cleaning of food labeling. And their supposed virtues to health. Energy bars Brand Gerblé supposed to boost memory? The court decided otherwise, since it ruled in favor of a consumer association by calling the advertisement "misleading." Currently, the national association of consumer and user (CLCV), one of the largest of its kind, which is in litigation against the giant Candia. At the heart of the debate, promises related to the consumption of milk Silhouette Active expected to play a role in appetite.This drink, ensures the manufacturer, would be "natural source of calcium and low in fat" and contain "a revolutionary active ingredient that helps you eat less at the next meal."

It is to fight against the proliferation of misleading health claims that since 2008, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is working on the content of thousands of labels. Manufacturers of each EU country provided their respective states, which were to follow EFSA, the allegations they wanted to use and the scientific literature. Thus 44,000 cases arrived at the office of the Authority for food safety. But after having eliminated all the duplicates and health claims related to plants that will be discussed later, the experts themselves to verify the actual 2760 scientific assertions.Among these products boasting of "antioxidant", "anticholesterols", "good for your bones", others favor the "removal of the water" by the kidneys, or some highlighting the "energy "and ensure the" vitality ".

Poorly supported arguments

Analysis of the EFSA has not focused on products but on their components. "In the end, only 20% received a positive opinion and 80% were eliminated, 'the officials of the Authority. For several reasons: incomplete files or too vague, and poorly supported arguments and sometimes a little wacky documents. "About the effect of a vitamin on the hair, companies have provided scientific studies do not speak of the vitamin or no hair," says Professor Ambrose and Martin, one of the experts of the EFSA.Besides a folder containing … the activity report of British Airways!

The 500 claims remaining in contention are only the opinion of the EFSA. The final list will be established in the coming months by the Member States on a proposal from the Commission. This could happen in 2012. Knowing that the industry will still have six months to adapt, the actual implementation of the measure expected in early 2013. John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, said he wanted to "regulate an opaque market."

"The idea of ​​improving nutrition labeling dates back several years, observed with some skepticism Inserm researcher Pierre Meneton, salt specialist, who believes that the excess sodium chloride is the cause of 30,000 to 35,000 deaths per year in France.But this work on a reform of European labels have long been in a drawer. "It remains to be hoped that the work undertaken by the European does not remain a dead letter.

Regulation eagerly awaited by the Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Control (DGCCRF). Because if Europe says the regulations, that the DGCCRF have the burden of verifying the reality of its application. "Before, companies benefited from a regime of almost total freedom," said William Cousyn, in charge of the nutrition issues. And it was the DGCCRF to prove fraud. The latter was particularly common: "95% of scientific claims that the DGCCRF asked us to check proved wrong," adds Martin Ambrose who is also expert at the National Health Security (handles).

For the DGCCRF, the label control will be facilitated since each claim will match a specific list of ingredients required. For the industrial sentenced for false advertising (in legal terms, we talk about deceptive marketing practices), the fine can reach 375,000 euros although it is rarely the case. Actually, what bothers most companies, it is the bad publicity generated by such trials. "The biggest deterrent is ultimately to include excerpts of court decisions on packaging, says Mr. Jerome Frank, one of the lawyers of the UFC-Que Choisir and CLCV. Should somehow punish them by where they have sinned. "

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The U.S. stock markets have moved from dark red to balance on Friday afternoon. Opening on a steep downward trend after poor economic data, the indices on Wall Street have reduced their losses after the speech of Barack Obama. Around 17:15, the Dow Jones down more than 0.25% at 12,210 points and the Standard & Poor's 500 yields 0.02% to 1300 points while the Nasdaq 100 round ahead by 0.25% to 2773 points. Thursday, Wall Street recorded a fifth straight session decline.

Barack Obama spoke Friday. He urged Republicans and Democrats to find a solution to raise the debt ceiling by 2 August, when the United States would find themselves in default if no compromise was found."We are very far from reaching an agreement, there are plenty of solutions," tried to reassure the U.S. president, stating that "any solution should be supported by both parties."

A dicours has reassured the markets but in the beginning of sessions, investissuers received three cold showers on.

The bad news on the front of the U.S. economy weighed heavily on the trend of economic growth the U.S. has slowed sharply in 2011 to 1.3% annual rate in the second quarter in a first estimate published Friday by the U.S. government.This growth rate, below analysts' expectations (1.8%), is particularly low given the significant revision of the first quarter, now estimated at 0.4% against 1.9% in June

A little later, more bad news: the U.S. consumer sentiment deteriorated more than expected in July, falling to a level not seen since March 2009, weighed down by rising unemployment and stagnating purchasing power, reveal final estimates of the survey Reuters / University of Michigan reported Friday.

In addition, economic activity in the Chicago area (northern USA) decelerated in July, according to the index released Friday by the professional association ISM, which stood at 58.8 against 61.1 in June

Moody's lowers rating outlook for Spain

Adding to the nervousness of the markets in Europe, the rating agency Moody's is considering lowering the rating of Spain. On the foreign exchange market, the euro was immediately dropped below the 1.43 dollar. Around 11:00, the European currency was worth 1.4276 dollars against 1.4324 dollars on Thursday night. Oil prices also retreated in the late morning. A barrel of Brent North Sea crude for September delivery was trading at 117.10 dollars on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in London, down 26 cents from the close of Thursday.In electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, a barrel of "light sweet crude" (WTI) for the same maturity fell by 52 cents to 96.92 dollars.

The side of values

Starbucks (-1% to 39.58 dollars) unveiled for the third quarter of its fiscal year profit up 34% to 279 million and a turnover of 2.9 billion dollars, up 12% and 8 % same-store thanks to an increase in traffic (6%) and average ticket (2%). CEO Howard Schultz commented: "We hope to achieve our EPS growth of 15% to 20% in fiscal 2012. ".

For his part, Metlife (1.48% at 40 and 40 dollars) recorded operating income of $ 16.9 billion, up 33%.Premiums and other revenues increased to 11.8 38U billion, following the acquisition of Alico, while investment income jumped 24% to $ 5.1 billion.

Chesapeake Energy (3.77% to 34.69 dollars) realized in the third quarter earnings per share of 0.76 dollars against 0.75 dollars excluding special items.

Expedia (3.48% to $ 30) recorded an adjusted earnings per share of 0.55 dollars in the second quarter against 0.44 dollar a year earlier. Revenues jumped 23% to $ 1 billion. Gross bookings increased 19% and the number of transactions increased by 15% while advertising revenues rose 27%.

McKesson (0.60% to 80.08 dollars) made from earnings per share for the first quarter of 1.27 dollar against 1.16 dollar last year and a turnover of 30 billion dollars in 9% increase.The company raised its earnings per share target to 6.09 – 6.29 dollars against a previous estimate of 5.55 – 5.75 dollars.

Motorola Mobility (-5.06% to 21.75 dollars) has issued an earnings per share for the second quarter of 0.09 dollars against a loss of 0.3 dollar per share last year. Sales rose 28% to $ 3.3 billion.

Saint-Gobain can be serene in 2011. In publishing, for the first half of the year, net income has rebounded more than half, the direction of the construction group was able to confirm its objective of growth "sustained" and up "double-digit "of its operating income. Saint-Gobain has indeed revealed this Thursday evening in a statement, a profit of 768 million euros over the first six months of the year (53.3% over the same period of 2010), with higher volumes and selling prices. Operating income, however, has jumped 19% to 1.72 billion euros. Confirming "the gradual recovery activities related to residential construction in Europe", the turnover the first six months of the year earned 6.9% to 20.9 billion euros, while the result of operations rose 19% to 1.7 billion euros.At the end of June, net debt of Saint-Gobain was stable at 9.1 billion euros.

"The continued growth of our business in the first half confirmed the recovery in sales volumes seen in 2010, and our ability to successfully pursue our policy of priority to the sale price," said Pierre-Andre de Chalendar, CEO of Saint-Gobain, even though the group has faced higher costs of raw materials and energy.

Accelerate acquisitions

Saint-Gobain's acquisitions will accelerate in the second half to take advantage of the recovery volume.The group has already announced the first of the year several acquisitions, including the distribution with a proposed takeover of the network and Brossette Build Centre for a total of 351 million euros and a acquisition in Russia in the insulation and the plasterboard in Turkey, who number this time tens of millions of euros bad credit payday loans.

"There are a number of acquisitions that are in progress, so I can not give you the amount in the second half but it will be very Arguably higher the amount we had in the first half," assured Pierre-Andre Chalendar."We have a PORTFOLIO of files in negotiation is important, but we are very strict on the debt, therefore the amounts we are talking about a few hundred million."

The IPO Verallia not ruled out

Saint-Gobain has "always the intention of getting the stock market" Verallia, its subsidiary in bottles and glass jars and take "a decision based on market conditions," said the boss of the French group, while the development project on the Paris market was delayed.

On June 20, in fact, Saint-Gobain decided at the last minute to postpone the entry of the Paris Bourse Verallia due to market conditions deemed "very unfavorable."

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Back in the red for the Paris Bourse. At the opening on Monday, the CAC 40 index drops 0.76% to 3813.50 points. Just relieved by Greece, where the leaders of the euro area have managed to agree on a rescue plan, investors are concerned about the United States. The elected representatives of the U.S. Congress again tried Sunday to reach an agreement on raising the debt ceiling, but without success.

While the Speaker of the House John Boehner had slammed the door to negotiations with the White House on Friday night, negotiations continued behind the scenes throughout the weekend between the Democratic allies of President Barack Obama, the Senate majority and their Republican opponents, who control the House of Representatives. But John Boehner told his troops on Sunday night that no breakthrough had yet been obtained.The head of the Republican majority in the House, Eric Cantor, considered the arguments of President Barack Obama "politics and indefensible."

The situation becomes very tense nine days of the deadline mentioned by the Treasury before a default. This morning, this concern has led to a relapse of the Asian markets. For their part, the U.S. markets, which had already ended Friday without direction, were on the downside Sunday night in electronic trading at the end of the weekend.

Greece is also in the news: Moody's today lowered the country's sovereign rating of "Caa1" from "It" with a development, saying the country was still facing major challenges medium-term credit.

Oil down

On the currency side, the dollar is penalized. The euro is rising against the greenback at 1.4367 dollar.Oil is also down. In morning trading, a barrel of "light sweet crude" for August delivery lost 1.08 dollars to 98.79 dollars. That of Brent North Sea crude for September delivery lost 60 cents to 118.07 dollars.

The American situation is also the only concern when no market indicator is expected on Monday.

Values ​​to follow

Areva: -1.83% to 24.88 euros, EDF: 0.28% to 27.24 euros

The new president of Areva, Luc Oursel, who succeeded Anne Lauvergeon end of June, will make his first official Monday by hosting one of its plants EDF's CEO Henri Proglio, showing the warming of relations between the two groups. EDF and Areva have signed an agreement at that time technically and commercially, prior to a more ambitious partnership signed in September payday advance.

Banking

Crédit Agricole (-1.87% to 9.25 euros), BNP Paribas (-1.75% to 47.96 euros), Societe Generale (-1.75% to 37.41 euros), Axa (-1, 60% to 14.10 euros) suffer from degradation of the note of Greece by Moody's.

Axa, while welcoming the agreement reached by EU leaders on Greece, the insurers of the French Federation of Insurance Companies (FFSA) said they consider positively their participation in the project initiative of private investors in As part of the options.

Score: -0.24% to 18.50 euros

The reinsurer Scor said on Monday a 22% growth in constant currencies, the treaty renewals in non-life and specialties of the 320 million of premiums up for renewal in mid-year.

Saint-Gobain: -0.69% to 42.18 euros

The group will buy the network and Brossette Build Center in Wolseley.

Unibail-Rodamco: 0.51% to 158.30 euros; Klépierre: -0.13% to 27.14 euros

HSBC has initiated coverage of Unibail-Rodamco to "overweight" with a target price of 175 euros and raised its recommendation on Klépierre to "underweight" to "neutral."

LVMH: 0.08% to 129.35 euros

Consob is considering a complaint from an investment fund over the price offered to pay the French to buy the balance of Bulgari, confirmed Sunday a spokesman for the Italian stock market.

Total: -0.11% to 39.41 euros

The oil amounts to ten billion dollars (seven billion euros) of investment needed to develop the oil field north of Moho Bilondo off the coast of the Republic of Congo, said its CEO, Christophe de Margerie.

Valeo: -3.94% to 45.35 euros

The group announced Friday that its U.S. subsidiary Valeo Inc., based in Troy, Michigan, had received a request for information from the U.S. court as part of an antitrust investigation.

Fimalac: 0.29% to 27.90 euros

The group announced a sales increase of 11.9% on a comparable basis to 515.8 million euros in the first nine months of fiscal year 2010-2011.Its subsidiary, the rating agency Fitch Ratings has led to an increase of 11.7% of its turnover over the same period to 401.5 million euros.

After market, Seb and Klépierre publish their half year results, April Group will announce its earnings for the second quarter, Faiveley the first quarter. Mercialys and STMicroelectronics will publish their results for the second quarter.

Today, Genevieve Lethu almost a pioneer. It's been almost ten years since the specialist tableware decided to repatriate most of its production in France. The group did not wait for the rising costs of transportation and wage inflation that affects a part of Asia to relocate its production in France and Europe. While 40% are still manufactured in Southeast Asia in 2002, this proportion has now dropped to 9%. Aim of the operation to improve the quality of its products.

According to Edmond Kassapian CEO Genevieve Lethu and origin of this strategy, the manufacturing conditions in emerging markets were no longer satisfactory. "We see a lot of flaws too: for example, the colors were sometimes not good.Moreover, China does not always meet the hygiene standards required by the manufacture of kitchen utensils, "said he. Three or four people were paid full-time, just for the after sales service. Manufacturing defects that the company, positioned on a medium-high-end, could not pass up. With a significant portion of its customers for export, being a French brand was not selling enough. "Our customers are demanding products made in France, not South-East Asia," said Edmond Kassapian.

Especially these failures were added to other problems. "Our own suppliers copied our collections to sell at lower prices," recalls the CEO. Occur in Asia also means longer production lead times, which complicate inventory management.In addition to transport by ship, which takes about two months, the status of "world factory" in China in some areas it is a work organization to lean. In this context, start or restart a production cycle requires a waiting period of up to six to eight months.

Model difficult to transpose

By bringing back most of its production in France, Geveniève Lethu won as responsiveness and quality. But this shedding was not built without problems. "Finding plants in France and Europe that can ensure our production has not been an easy task. Invest in tools, machinery was necessary. The repatriation was ultimately effective only from 2004-2005, "said Edmond Kassapian.Despite the cost of transportation and the "huge mess" deplored by the specialist tableware of its products made in China, produced in France is generally two to three times more expensive.

Why the model Genevieve Lethu is not easily transferable. "Some activities simply can not be relocated. Products requiring significant labor to manufacture or those who stand out from the competition will cost products in Asian countries. Our relocation was only possible because we are positioning ourselves in the middle and high end because the argument made in France for us was a selling point, "Edmond analysis Kassapian.

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LE FIGARO: – Earlier this week, you have participated in the meeting of the Eurogroup and Ecofin, the decisions taken are sufficient to stop the crisis?

Baroin: – The message that the Eurogroup has this week sent a strong message. The finance ministers of the euro area have confirmed their absolute commitment to safeguard financial stability in the area. The tools we have, I think of course to the European financial stability, will be of use will be more flexible and less costly for the recipient countries. We also reiterated our commitment to conclude as soon as possible a program that covers the financing needs of Greece for three years.

Greece, Portugal, Italy, France is currently immune to this crisis.Do you fear a contagion affecting our country?

Thanks to the reforms carried out and control of public finances that we pursue with determination, France, like Germany, has the confidence of investors on our sovereign debt deemed safest. France is indeed one of the seven countries in the euro area receiving the highest rating. This lowers the cost at which borrows France. Of course, we can not satisfy disruption affecting the markets for several days.

What are the flexibilities of the presidential candidates subject to the supervision of rating agencies?

There is no doubt that some projects are completely out of time exceeded. To that of PS, I will be tempted to say, it is worn, tired, to paraphrase one of their former candidate.It is unrealistic, if not more, in 2012, to propose the creation of hundreds of thousands of public employment. It is irresponsible with regard to the preservation of our growth to provide a fiscal impact of an increase of 50 billion euros in taxes.

Bertrand Delanoe suggested a special tax on high incomes to reduce debt the state …

We are totally opposed to the creation of an upper marginal tax on income. As part of the tax reform that I reach we have ruled out this hypothesis. A working group will be in the coming days to establish, in the draft 2012 budget law, a contribution on income from extraordinary or extravagant as stated by the Prime Minister. It's a big difference with a windfall tax on the income desired by the Socialists.This is not the same political project.

The Finance Act provides 3 billion saving on tax loopholes. This will be enough?

Again, our goals are intangible and deficit are the backbone of the construction budget. It is very likely that we will go through the Finance Act 2012, beyond the three billion reduction in planned niches. At what level should we stop. There is still a bit early to say but that is where we are heading.

Martine Aubry accusing the Elysee Palace to spread rumors about his private life …

As a candidate in the presidential election went a bit unnoticed, to give relief to its trajectory, it targets the Elysée and the UMP.It's a bit ridiculous.

It is a sign of weakness?

If you add up the silence that followed the important announcement of his candidacy, that sense of unseen, the socialist project, and now this news on rumors, I do not think it is up to the challenges that France will through next year.

How to convince Borloo not be a candidate in 2012?

It's very difficult to explain that we are stronger by being divided only by being united! It is very difficult to explain that participated in the affairs of the country for so long and be an alternative project.Therefore I think it will be very difficult to find a chamber at the presidential majority as the election period will need to gather all the forces present in the majority in the service of Nicolas Sarkozy.

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The U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has sought reassurance on Sunday, while negotiations stretch again about raising the ceiling of U.S. debt: "The U.S. will not default, he repeated . There is no way to give more time in Congress. Leaders of major parties understand this. "

The aim of these negotiations is twofold: first to raise the ceiling of U.S. debt authorized, currently set at 14,300 billion and achieved since mid-May Without agreement on this point, the Treasury warned that the United States would find themselves in default of payment on 2 August. A scenario unique to cause global bond market crash.In an interview Sunday at the program "This Week", the new general director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, has also warned the U.S. against the "truly deplorable consequences" of such a scenario for country and the world.

Elected officials must also agree on a comprehensive plan of savings, without which Democrats as Republicans admit that the U.S. debt would be difficult to sustain over time. An aging population should lead to higher mechanical effect of public debt, charged in the future by heavier spending on health and higher costs related to the pension system. However, the U.S. national debt has already reached the summits, looked with suspicion by the rating agencies.

Budget cuts

But elected officials have reviewed this weekend to lower their ambitions.The Republican chairman of the House of Representatives of the United States, John Boehner, said Saturday that he would not agree on the broad deficit-reduction plan advocated by Barack Obama. Instead of four trillion dollars in savings over ten years requested by the President of the United States and considered necessary by the rating agencies, is now on a more narrow the range of 2000-3000000000000 dollars, to be negotiated between the elected officials, said John Boehner guaranteed pay day loans.

"Despite good faith efforts to find a common base, the White House will not consent to a broader agreement on reducing the debt without raising taxes. So I think that the best approach might be to focus on a smaller, "said the Republican.

Electoral concerns

After days of deadlock, negotiations had yet appeared to unravel Thursday, after Obama met with leaders of both major parties in Congress. In granting budget cuts for health and social security, so far regarded as untouchable by the Democrats, Barack Obama has paved the way for an agreement that he would like "historic".

In return, the president was calling for concessions from the Republicans on the taxation of the rich. "We can not ask the middle class and senior citizens to bear alone the brunt of budget cuts, held Saturday, spokesman for the White House. Are also the richest pay their fair share, and we believe that Americans agree on this point. "

For their part, Republicans are reluctant to vote for one trillion tax increases that Barack Obama is calling for. In general, Republicans as Democrats are concerned that measures spending cuts or tax increases adopted in the savings plan does not cost them the next election.

Barack Obama would meet again in the early evening the leaders of the House of Representatives, where Republicans are the majority, and Senate. The White House said in the wake of the announcement of John Boehner she still hoped to get him back on his positions.

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Co-leader of drones, unmanned aircraft, with the United States, Israel has come into force at the Paris Air Show. Under the leadership of "Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute" and the commercial department of the Israeli Embassy in Paris, fifteen companies representing the flagship of the aerospace industry, display their latest creations. By visiting the house of Israel, visitors can "touch" the latest innovations.

Among them, a strange machine to look worthy of Star Wars called AirMule. Urban Aeronautics presents a model of the UAV helicopter whose rotor is not visible because housed in the body of the device. AirMule has already made several test flights. It is intended to convey the property or to perform medical evacuations in theaters of operation in urban environments or in complex natural sites difficult to access.Its specifications in fact enable it to obtain dual certification (civil and military). It concerns the Israeli Ministry of Defense and NATO.

Another original concept developed by Aeronautics Defense Systems, the transformation of a civilian aircraft into existing UAV MALE (Medium Altitude Long Endurance). "UAVs often have reliability problems because of their platform that can also be certified to fit into the civil air traffic," said a company representative. Aeronautics Defense Systems has decided to work from an Australian aircraft, the Diamond DA 42, the cell tested. And he turned into MALE UAV called Dominator.The company that specializes in unmanned air, land and sea, began production in February Dominator.

Partnership with EADS and Thales

Israel is a major player in the defense market with a global market share estimated at 7 payday loans.5%. In 2010, according to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the export sales of armaments have reached $ 10 billion, twice more than in 2008. The industry occupies 150 companies whose leaders are the group Rafael, Elbit and IAI, which employ some 44,000 employees. Israel has often been a pioneer in the field of defense. His army was the first to use drones, manned aircraft from the ground station, on a massive scale in 1982 in the Bekaa Valley during the war in Lebanon.

These leading companies have, for years the card partnerships with U.S. and European manufacturers.The group thus provides the platform IAI Heron which is the basis for the Snowy, the MALE UAV militarized by EADS, which is used by the French Air Force in Afghanistan. In Britain, Thales has set up a joint venture with Elbit group to make the platform's tactical UAV Wachtkeeper which has a technology transfer platform Hermes 450. Wachtkeeper was developed for the British Army who ordered 60 copies. It will enter service in late 2011.

In all, Israel has developed a range of UAVs double duty (civilian and military) that goes from the micro-craft to the general observation drone high altitude long endurance (HALE).The fleet in service on five continents has accumulated 700,000 hours of flight, a world record.

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And if you asked more questions in the right place? "Suggests now a television commercial for Old National Insurance (CNAV) to the humorous. A few days before the commencement of the pension reform (July 1, read PreviousPage), the government explained to the French that they have several partners that would respond to questions they are sure to arise on their future retirement. Consultants by telephone (39 60), websites (pedagogical and practical), retirement calculator (m @ rel), statement of career situation, sources of information about retirement have increased in recent years.They are also more and more personalized.

Thus, the public interest group (GIP) Info Retreat, which coordinates 35 mandatory pension systems, address every five years from the age of 35, a statement of "personal circumstances" (those born in 1951 , 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971 and 1976 will receive their statement this year). This lists all schemes where the insured has acquired rights, with the corresponding periods, the compensation taken into account in calculating the pension, life insurance or the number of points acquired, periods or events that may influence the retirement age or the amount of pension (military service …). A document is purely informative.

From 55 years, is changing

Policyholders receive more than the statement a "rough estimate global" (in the basic and supplementary schemes), and the age of entitlement.Very useful, this document lets you know exactly the number of quarters acquired and especially to get a clear idea of ​​the amount of support we receive, if it pushes his retirement. "Generally, these reviews are thorough and well done. They have quite a few mistakes, "said Pascal Mignery, president of France Retreat. Mistakes are sometimes the result of the corporate employer, which did not submit all information collected at the time the computer did not exist short term personal loans. "But beware, these records do not mention the increase in pension for family of three children and periods of expatriation," he says.

In addition to these two devices, the law on pension reform introduced a progress retirement at age 45 (it enters into force in January 2012)."Each insured may request a personal interview on the rights he has made in mandatory pension systems," says CNAV. This will enable some awareness of the need to save for retirement yet distant. "It will also be very useful for expatriates who do not always know they can contribute to the French funds while overseas, in advance Pascale Gauthier Novelvy.

Also from next year, the younger will also be sensitized to the problems of retirement. After two quarters of work (validated), they will receive a newsletter on pension division.

If you want to know the exact amount of your retirement, you can use the calculator m @ rel (www.marel.fr).This will also allow you to know at what age you can claim a full pension and to know the financial consequences of an early departure. Small flat, you must enter yourself all your information. Moreover, this simulator does not yet take into account the terms of the pension reform.

Those who had a career more complex, punctuated with many changes (employer or status, for example) will knock on the door of a boutique firm that will help them see more clearly (at what age from, what are the benefits of combining employment and retirement …). "We help employees not err in departing three months too early for example. We are also much sought in their forties who are considering changing their professional status and wish to understand the implications this will have on their future retirement, "says Pascal Mignery.The price of such a service? Between 1000 and 5000 euros on average, according to the firms.