point de vue d'Eric Woerth

Eric Woerth, ministre du Budget L'appel lancé à Berlin le 22 février 2009 par les dirigeants des six principales économies européennes, lors de la réunion préparatoire au sommet des vingt nations les plus riches du monde prévu le 2 avril prochain à Londres, en est une nouvelle illustration : les paradis fiscaux sont désormais au centre des préoccupations de la communauté internationale.

Depuis le séisme de la crise financière internationale, les opinions publiques, les marchés, les Etats ont pris conscience qu'on ne pouvait tolérer l'existence de zones de non-droit, de territoires où des opérations opaques pouvaient menacer la sécurité du système financier tout entier.

Surtout, nous savons pouvoir compter sur le soutien du parlement dans ce dossier et nous lui proposerons prochainement des mesures fiscales sanctionnant le recours à des pays à fiscalité privilégiée et à opacité financière pour la circulation des flux financiers ou la délocalisation des revenus ou des patrimoines.

Et nos concitoyens et les entreprises seront libres d'apprécier les contreparties que leur apporte le site "France" et de le comparer à ce que leur proposent l'Allemagne, les Etats-Unis, la Chine… Les paradis fiscaux n'apportent rien : ils agissent comme des trous noirs faisant disparaître les recettes publiques.



Source: http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/20090304trib000350903/paradis-fiscaux-il-est-temps-de-changer-de-modele.html

Sun dévoile des résultats financiers encourageants

Les résultats se veulent rassurants avec un chiffre d'affaires de 3,22 milliards de dollars, en baisse de 11 % depuis le second trimestre 2008, mais en hausse de 8 % par rapport au trimestre précédent.

La société limite la casse avec un déficit de seulement 209 millions de dollars, contre 1,68 milliard de dollars de pertes au premier trimestre 2009.

Sur les deux dernières années, la part des ventes de produits chute, un phénomène compensé par la vente de services (quoiqu'elle soit aussi en baisse), qui constitue aujourd'hui 40 % des revenus de la compagnie.

Le budget de R&D est en nette baisse, mais avec 1,76 milliard de dollars sur les douze derniers mois (contre 1,94 milliard de dollars pour les quatre trimestres précédents), il demeure un des points forts de la compagnie.



Source: http://www.silicon.fr/fr/news/2009/02/23/sun_devoile_des_resultats_financiers_encourageants

The best online travel sites

If you're considering a cruise or an organised tour, a good place to start shopping is at , which debuted in seven countries including the UK last year with the goal of incorporating every travel website on the planet into its 'social search engine'.

For example, you can call up a list of cruise lines that belong to the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators, but it's up to you to know how those lines differ from lines that aren't members.

Its deal analyser technology promises to spare you from having to sift through reams of fine print by presenting the key criteria for each listing - price, savings off brochure price and terms of booking (for example, dates of stay and deadline for booking) - in just three lines of type.

This powerful solution is the first of its kind, offering you up to 6.0 Terabytes (6000GB), as well as the option to have RAID 5 capabilities; giving you an excellent combination of HDMI movie playback (1080p) and easy disk management.



Source: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=110846&

The best last minute travel deals and bargains

The best last minute travel deals and bargains

2009 will be awash with cheap deals - catch up on the latest news and and deals in the market as they are published

The Times rounds up its pick of the including eight nights in the southern Indian state of Kerala

from £565 or a saving of £400 on a week in a catered chalet with its

own pool in Tignes, now £504 including flights from Gatwick, on March 8.

Ten nights for the price of six from , plus a free day at the site's spa, for visits on or before Jun

26 to Camping le Ranolien, Brittany - now from £473 for two adults and two

children in a two bedroom home, includes ferry Dover to Calais.

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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article5314276.ece

UPDATE 2-Rugby-France centre Fritz banned for three weeks

MARCOUSSIS, Feb 11 (Reuters) - France centre Florian Fritz

will miss the Six Nations matches against Scotland and Wales

after being handed a three-week suspension on Wednesday.

A Six Nations statement said Fritz had "not deliberately

made contact with the eyes or eye area" of his Irish opponent in

France's 30-21 defeat at Croke Park.

"The committee did, however, find the player guilty of

committing the lesser offence of striking an opponent and

imposed a suspension of three weeks up to and including Sunday,

A selection of our best photos from the past 24 hours.



Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/rugbyNews/idUKLB79995620090211

High winds batter France, England

Electricity to 600,000 households was cut after damage to power lines and both the main airports serving Paris, Charles de Gaulle and Orly, were closed for the first time in 34 years.

The French Navy put three rescue vessels on stand-by to help any shipping in difficulty and sandbags were deployed on seafronts exposed to possible flooding.

ABC News Online's interactive map details the fire locations and human cost of the tragedy.

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Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/11/2488060.htm?section=world