À l'heure où les conflits sociaux secouent la France, le mouvement des pêcheurs a eu la part belle dans la presse française.

Nouvelle crise pour Total: le groupe est mis à mal, à la suite de la pollution de la Loire due à une fuite de fioul de la raffinerie de Donges.

En révélant la fraude de Jérôme Kerviel, pour 4,9 Mds Euros, la Société Générale a stupéfié les marchés et la France.

«Joli coup» : la presse a salué avec une totale unanimité le très beau contrat remporté par Areva en Chine fin novembre. Lire la suite...

For the past few months, the French presidential election campaign has benefitted from ongoing media coverage. In the first two weeks in March, the press reported daily on the number of signatures the political parties had: each one needed to secure the backing of at least 500 elected officials. Newspaper headlines carried complaints by the minor parties - Jean-Marie Le Pen first and foremost - about the sponsorship system and the harassment that some supposedly suffered at the hands of the mainstream parties, especially the Socialists.

Although Louis Gallois is known for his skills in dealing with union leaders and his ability to keep the lines of communication open, there is no guarantee that he will be able to save Airbus this time around.

Pendant plus de trois semaines, l'association Les enfants de Don Quichotte a bousculé l'agenda politique à Noël. Sortie de l'ombre, l'association a dénoncé le sort des sans-abri le 16 décembre dernier lançant un appel à l'Elysée. Peu à peu la capitale, notamment les quais du canal Saint-Martin, a revêtu des tentes multicolores.

Only a year and a half ago, the advent of the A380 was triumphantly announced. Today, Airbus is on the verge of bankruptcy...

How did the PSA Peugeot Citroën management get away with it? Their upsetting news did not start any political rows, nor did it seem to come as a surprise. Both the unions and the employees reacted reasonably and the stock markets remained steady...

It could be called "THE battle" of the new parliamentary session considering that 137,449 amendments to the government bill have been tabled in unending debates...

Enormous, colossal, gigantic, monumental - no word seemed too extreme for the press when describing the huge debt of the franco-british firm, Eurotunnel, which culminates at the incredible amount of 9.1 billion euros.

When EADS management announced the closing of the Sogerma site in Mérignac, last May 12th, it provoked a major polemic and attracted the ire of its employees, social partners and the government.

After the numerous protest movements which marked the news in France in March, the Clearstream affair; which made the headlines in April, shook the government up even more.

For over two months now, the debate on the "CPE" (Contract of First Employment) has been raging and France has been all the worse for wear.

The Indian group Mittal Steel launched a bid on Arcelor January 27th, 2006. This created an earthquake among European politicians and businesspeople, reviving the debate on globalization.

Davos, Bamako or Caracas ? The media were spoilt for choice: The World Economic Forum (WEF) on the one hand and the World Social Forum (WSF) on the other. To top it off the WSF now takes place on 4 continents. The Forums, however, did little to light anyone’s fire.

The inauguration on 2 January 2006 of the Banque Postale (a subsidiary of La Poste, the national mail service) was not favourably looked upon by the leading French banks which immediately criticised the creation of the largest bank network in France.