Air quality over the entire France

To stay healthy, this service allows you, from day to day, follow the signs of urban pollution. The information presented is provided by the Associations approved monitoring air quality (AASQA) and the Department of the Air ADEME *. If the studies last thirty years have shown a decrease certain forms of pollution (sulfur dioxide, lead, carbon monoxide), there is a resurgence of various respiratory problems: bronchial irritation, asthma in response to air pollution. Based on the study and evaluation of major pollutants, ATMO index for assessing the air quality. It varies from 1 (very good air quality) to 10 (very bad air quality).

Overcoming fear of the other

In France, the changes generally are - unfortunately - in times of acute crisis, five to midnight and violence. We need more dialogues and exchanges. Everything is viewed in terms of hostility and shocks, crammed with ideology. The paradox is that all this happens in a country where we have a lot of people informed, intelligent, as they say in France "brilliant" -- is the major compliment here as strong as it was considered heavy - to achieve results rather mediocre.

Illusions

Today, the influence we can have - not to be confused with radiation is the aura of the past - is that like it or not based on economic and commercial power. We are in this respect far behind Germany. In a way, this way of saying that we are the fourth power is insufficient, because the former is far ahead of the second and third are far behind the first but far ahead of us. Indeed, the GNP of the United States was 7690 billion in 1997, the Japanese and Germany 4772 Poster 2319, is 793 billion dollars more than France. With a GDP of 1.526 trillion dollars, the French are certainly in the fourth row, but after five or six competitors, including the United Kingdom and very close to Italy
Since the beginning of the oil crisis (1973), no French leader has yet had the courage to say where we are. That is, the 1960s are over. If the French want the labor market hiring more, he'll have to have less stringent laws for protection. The demographics that we are an aging society in which young people are often unemployed 18 to 25 years, if not up to 30 years. During the last 3O years, no fundamental reform has been made. The only "reform" were for manners, where the legislature has followed the evolution of society. The sluggishness of the state are considerable.

The art of putting cantilevered

In Eastern Europe, the Americans - who were absolutely correct in their logic - extended Treaty Organization North Atlantic (NATO) to three new countries from Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary at a time when Europeans were unable to give any life to the European Union (WEU). France started the overhang when the government of Alain Juppé (1995 - 1997) has proposed to return to NATO provided to obtain - that the Americans could not in any way give us - management Mediterranean. For Washington, this command is vital because with him the sixth U.S. fleet reaches the coast of Lebanon and Israel. Finally, the crisis in Rwanda in 1994 - and in general Great Lakes - marks the beginning of a depletion indisputable French positions on the African continent, eg in Zaire. It still awaits a comprehensive reassessment of our African policy. because it has become the preserve of certain French networks.

What Union?

Europe seems to me the only possible way to have any weight in the XXI century Especially around a dynamic core and not an extension absurd as we are proposing. Given the way things are parties to a kind of free-market improved trade with one currency and an embryo of armed force it may cast doubt on the ability to succeed in the European process as a political entity. More, there will be more and more difficult to Europe. It was desirable that we make a smaller Europe with a core of half a dozen countries, which would aggregate - the conditions laid down by the half-dozen - other countries. It is known, the number of participants increases, there is inertia. Any group dynamics knows that.

Germany has turned the page

It should be noted that Germany is strengthening not only economically but gradually emerges from his guilt in respect of the Second World War, since those who were 20 years in 1945 are generally in the conduct of business . Germany will soon conduct a foreign policy to match its resources. Helmut Kohl was probably the last chancellor Francophile and it is likely that the German policy change forward. It is possible that the Germans had enough of the French travel first class with a second ticket. Germany will change roles, gain self-esteem, politically speaking louder. The economic weight of Germany is significant in Central Europe.

WEEK SPECIAL CHRISTMAS GIFTS

Buy a toy is nothing trivial: a single view of productivity, many brands of toys or relocate their businesses rely on Chinese manufacturers. In fact, 70% of plastic toys sold in Europe come from manufacturers in Southeast Asia. These are often just looking at vis-à-vis the dangers of their production standards imposed in Europe, it is our responsibility, authorities, customs, traders and consumers to exercise caution unbounded face counterfeiting can be most harmful to children. One can not deny, safety standards, particularly since the 1989 decree on toys imported and sold in France are very strict. Legislation which the European Commission will not hesitate to clarify and strengthen requirements following the withdrawal of millions of toys "Made in China" the U.S. toy giant Mattel in 2007. The CE (must legibly and indelibly), intended to be a guarantee of the toy to reference standards, can not alone provide certainty about product safety. Indeed, the "control" of compliance with these standards can be performed by any laboratory or laboratories Chinese private manufacturers. The standard "NF", for its optional, is an additional guarantee for the consumer. Not content to meet the standards, the company applies this logo undertakes to monitor its products through independent laboratories specialized. But it concerns only certain toys, such as porters and lint.