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The bill was rejected UMP to 175 votes against 168. A Mixed Commission will now be convened before a return to both Houses of Parliament. View of the Senate in the Luxembourg Palace

The Senate on Wednesday rejected by 175 votes against 168 the bill UMP to govern the right to strike in the airline, criticized by the unions of Air Staff.

Most PS, CRC (Communist), RDSE (mostly PRG) Ecologist and passed a motion prior procedural motion which amounts to a rejection of the text. The centrist and right UMP voted against.

Filed by a deputy of the Right People, Eric Diard, before movement of airport security officers, PPL already adopted on 25 January by the National Assembly is to implement in the air including the existing and the SNCF RATP. Left and Right have competed strongly in the hemicycle of the Palais du Luxembourg, where the shouts are increasing with the approach of presidential elections.

"The airline industry is highly confrontational: 1131 strikes in the last three years, 63 days last year. This is no longer acceptable. Freedom of strikers must end or beginning of the passengers," insisted the minister Transport, Thierry Mariani. "The sky is open air. You, too, show a little opening and let yourself go with the interests of passengers, not that of a minority of employees," he told Catherine Procaccia (UMP). "Passengers are the cannon fodder of the malfunctioning of social dialogue," exclaimed Louis Negro (UMP).

"You do not have a monopoly on empathy with users stuck in airports. It is always the strikers who are responsible for everything, you never put the responsibility on employers, however, social dialogue takes two, "replied Jean Desessard (Greens)." If employees have to leave it because of the strikes of 1936 and if they do not fly is that they do not have money, you are the emissaries of big business "has swept Borvo Nicole Cohen-Seat, Chair of the group CRC (Communist). "No more business would be immune to similar restrictions to a fundamental right: the right to strike," protested George Labazée (PS). "The goal is to flatter a certain opinion public without worrying about the consequences of employees whose situation is often precarious, "blasted the rapporteur Claude Jeannerot (PS).  

This text requires the strikers, under penalty of law, to declare individually 48 hours before each day of the strike and employers to forecast traffic no later than 24 hours before the disturbance. Employees waiving participation in a strike or deciding to resume their service will also, under penalty of disciplinary action, inform the employer within 24 hours prior to their participation or anticipated recovery. This obligation to inform the employer of a change of mind will also apply to land transport, thereby altering the symbolic law of August 2007, improperly called law on "minimum service".

The airline unions have the four days last week strike demanding the withdrawal of a text for them violates the right to strike. They do not exclude other mobilizations. The PPL is registered emergency, a Mixed Commission (CMP, seven senators, seven MPs) will now be convened before a return to both houses but the Assembly has the last word.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Greek parliament as MPs must vote in the late afternoon a bill consisting of austerity measures demanded such drastic and unpopular es by the EU and the IMF in exchange for a new rescue plan.

Greek Prime Minister of Greece Lucas Papademos warned against the "economic chaos" in case of rejection, while Germany has warned that Greece should stop being a "well bottomless "`.

After three days of tension and political threats, Parliament began shortly after 14:00 (12:00 GMT) to examine the bill to save 3.3 billion euros thanks to lower wages, pensions and job cuts public. 

The vote must take place before midnight (2200 GMT), said the finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, "because on Monday morning, the banking and financial markets should have received the message that Greece can and will survive. "

"If the law is not adopted, the country will go bankrupt," warned the Minister that a Communist deputy threw the pages of the bill on the floor of the Assembly.

About twenty members of the coalition of Lucas Papademos have threatened in recent days to vote against the text and six government members submitted their resignations, but the Prime Minister will still theoretically supported by a large majority. 

Outside the parliament, police fired tear gas to try to disperse demonstrators who threw stones and Molotov cocktail at Syntagma Square.

This is the largest mobilization since the month of demonstrations against the security measures. Most protesters retreated but clashes continued in the middle of the afternoon.

"There is tear gas into the interior of the Assembly," said one Communist deputy, Panagiotis Lafazanis.

"Bottomless well"

The new austerity plan is the price to pay for the release of an aid program of 130 billion euros from the EU and the IMF – the second since 2010.

Greece has to touch the money before March 20 to repay a state loan of 14.5 billion euros.

Germany has turned up the heat a notch Sunday warning that Europe expected actions and not words.

"The promises of Greece are no longer sufficient for us," warned the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble. 

Referring to the new austerity plan in which the Greek deputies must vote this Sunday, the minister said in an interview published by the Welt am Sonntag that the previous did not e ; tee implemented in their entirety.

Wolfgang Schäuble said that the Germans are largely in favor of an international aid to Greece. "But it's important to say that it can be a bottomless pit. This is why the Greeks will finally have to clog the well. Then we can put something. At least people are now beginning to realize that it will not work with a bottomless pit.

"Greece must do its homework to become competitive, it requires a new rescue plan or some other way that we do not want to (…)" he says referring to an output the euro area.

Asked if such an outcome is possible, Wolfgang Schäuble responds: "Everything is in the hands of the Greeks themselves. But even in that event, on which no table, they remain an integral part of Europe ".

"We are pleased to offer our assistance, but we should not give others the impression that they have not done enough. Each state is responsible for itself," explains he said.

Eiffage reported Friday a net sales increase of 4.8% in the fourth quarter of 2011, thanks to its good performance in work and in the concessions.

The construction group and concessions, owner of motorway networks Paris-Rhin-Rhone (APRR) and Area (Ain), said in a statement that its turnover reached 3 , 61 billion euros, 1.04 billion for the construction division.

Of all of fiscal 2011, revenues grew 3% to 13.73 billion euros.

Eiffage also know that its backlog at January 1, 2012 was up 25% over one year to 13.5 billion euros. It represents more than 11 ½ months of activity of divisions.

At the Paris Bourse, the action Eiffage closed Friday at 26 euros, down 2.14%, showing a market capitalization of 2.26 billion euros.

The Finnish group Outokumpu will acquire the division of ThyssenKrupp Stainless, Inoxum for 2.7 billion euros to develop synergies and to defend against competition from Asia. </ P> The agreement will be partly financed by the issuance of one billion euros of new shares and Outokumpu will result in the closure of two smelters and the elimination of 850 jobs in Germany. </ p> Analysts said the merger would enable all European producers of stainless steel to increase their room for maneuver on pricing as the industry is weakened by excess capacity. " / p> Outokumpu will pay one billion euros in cash to ThyssenKrupp and resume at the last 422 million euros of debt.</ P> The German group, whose market share in Europe is estimated between 35 and 40% ceded to pressure from its unions by agreeing to remain a shareholder of discontinued operations ; are: it will hold 29.9% of Outokumpu after the operation. </ p> Action ThyssenKrupp gained 2.4% to 21.6150 euros at 3:40 p.m. GMT the Frankfurt Stock Exchange while the Stoxx European basic resources progressed by 0.2%. In Helsinki, Outokumpu fell at the same time from 11.4% to 6.525 euros. </ P> The IG Metall union, which gave the green light to the operation, a pre specifies that Inoxum plant in Krefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia would be closed by December 31, 2013 and the site of Bochum, located in the same Land, would close the end of 2016. </ p> He said the two groups have obtained the guarantee that no other German production site would be closed before the end of 2015 and that the integration of Inoxum would be no forced departure. </ p> While five years ago in Europe exporting of stainless steel, the increase in production capacity and global competition from Asia and Asia now covers 20% of the needs of the old continent. </ p>

The new home sales fell 13% in the third quarter. At the same time, housing starts and building permits have increased. An employee on a construction site offices and accommodation in Marseille.

The new home sales fell 12.9% in France over one year in the third quarter, according to the Ministry of Housing, which reported Tuesday alongside a 11.4% increase in housing starts and 22, 6% of building permits between August and October 2011. A total of 26,400 new homes were sold by developers in the third quarter of this year, a decrease of 12.9% over the same period in 2010, according to figures released by the Ministry.

Over the last four quarters (4th quarter 2010 to third quarter 2011), sales totaled 101,300, a decrease of 10.7% over the same period a year earlier.

The crisis facing the euro area is systemic and it requires its members a greater commitment than they are now showing, said Wednesday José Manuel Barroso.

"Today we are facing a crisis that requires a truly systemic even greater commitment of all major and additional measures", said President of the European Commission to the European Parliament.

He added that a further fiscal integration in the euro area was needed, without creating divisions with the 10 EU countries over 27 who are not members of the single currency.

Once this integration budget will be in place and new tools of governance have been decided, European bonds – seen by many economists as a solution to the crisis – will then become "natural," he further said.

The consumer prices rose 0.2% over the month and 2.3% year on year.

The index of consumer prices in France, one of the barometers of inflation, rose 0.2% in October from the previous month and rose 2.3% year on year, said Thursday the National Institute of Statistics (INSEE). The increase in October "comes from the purpose of promotions in the clothing and footwear, and food," said INSEE.

The price of tobacco (2.7% compared to September) rents and services, water and garbage also increases but the increases are partly offset by lower prices of other manufactured goods and other services.

The German government Saturday denied press reports saying that the reserves of the Bundesbank would be used to replenish the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF), the emergency fund in the euro area.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported that the reserves of the German central bank – made of gold and foreign exchange – will be used to increase the contribution of Germany to EFSF over 15 billion euros.

The Welt am Sonntag said the same thing in its columns.

"The foreign exchange reserves and gold in Germany, managed by the Bundesbank, have never been in discussions at the G20 summit in Cannes," said the spokesman of the German government.

All countries in the euro area, except Greece, will repay all their debts, said Sunday Christian Noyer, member of the Board of Governors of the European Central Bank.

Recognizing a concern about this market, he stressed that Italy was in primary budget surplus (ie, outside debt service) and in Spain, the main economic and financial indicators were better in the United Kingdom.

"We can rule out defects in Italy, Spain, and shall exclude defects in Ireland and Portugal," said the Governor of the Banque de France on RFI and TV5 Monde.

That Italy chose not to pay down its debt, "is out of question because it would mean that Italy would have no ability to move markets to borrow money (. .) This situation is unthinkable. "

"Portugal and Ireland definitely do not want not to pay in full, every last cent, their debts," he said.

Rest of Greece, which in his view a limited risk for French banks, even if the discount applied to private investors on Greek debt exceeds 21% negotiated to date.

"The Greek sovereign debt is in the books of French banks is eight billion (.) Is fully absorbable," he said.

"There is no problem, this is not the problem," added Christian Noyer. "The problem is the uncertainty that was created precisely for this situation of Greece to be a reduction in debt from investors, who created a general anxiety in the market."