Flere syge Noma-gæster Efter Ekstra Bladet kunne fortælle om, hvordan 63 mennesker var blevet syge efter at spise på verdens officielt bedste restaurant, Noma i København, stiger antallet af gæster, som melder om sygdom. Læs også: Se også: Noma: 63 gæster ramt af roskildesyge Fødevarestyrelsen har nu registreret yderligere ni tilfælde, hvor gæster har haft symptomer, som passer på Roskildesyge. - Når der er sygdomsudbrud hos kendte restauranter, så sker der altid det samme. Vi kender effekten. Der er altid en masse, der siger, de blev syge og vil have pengene igen. Se også: Læs også: Noma burde have haft styr på det Dermed er antallet af selskaber, hvor gæster er smittet med norovirus under et besøg på Noma, steget fra 12 til 17. Flere kan være ramt Gæsterne er blevet syge i perioden fra omkring 15. februar og fem dage frem, hvor køkkenet på Noma var ramt af norovirus-bakterier, som giver roskildesyge. Se også: Læs også: Noma: Vi har ikke gjort noget for at promovere det
Commission sets out the next steps for stability, growth and jobs European Commission - Press release Commission sets out the next steps for stability, growth and jobs Brussels, 30 May 2012 – The European Commission has adopted a package of recommendations for budgetary measures and economic reforms to enhance financial stability, boost growth and create employment across the EU. The recommendations are country-specific, taking account of the individual situation of each Member State. The Commission has also issued recommendations for the euro area as a whole, and set out its vision for the EU-level policy action needed to complement the national measures to deliver an ambitious, two-tiered EU growth initiative. President Barroso said: "Today the Commission has taken important decisions that set out the further action that needs to be taken both at national level by each of our Member States and at the EU level to enhance our competitiveness, boost growth and jobs, and to strengthen decisively our economic and monetary union. Content of today's package
The Merkelization of Europe - By Paul Hockenos Not so long ago, France was the political driver and Germany the economic motor of the European Union. "Now," remarked former European Commission president Romani Prodi in February, it is Merkel "that decides and Sarkozy that holds a press conference to explain her decisions." This searing image could be embellished with the 24 EU members cowering in the press room -- and Britain now watching through the window. Now that Britain has sidelined itself from the historic "fiscal compact" concluded in Brussels on Dec. 9, which provides the EU with new powers to enforce stricter discipline in national budgets, the community appears even more fiercely segregated within its own ranks. Pathetically, the Brits walked not because of the starkly deficient democratic procedure or the fact these governance changes wouldn't adequately address the euro quagmire, but rather to protect London's financial services industry from regulations that were part of the deal. JEAN-PAUL PELISSIER/AFP/Getty Images
Antallet af syge efter Noma-besøg stiger - Lorry - Nyheder - SAMFUND 11-03-13 19.09 af Politiken.dk Yderligere ni personer med roskildesyge har meldt sig. Flere kan komme til. Først var det 63, nu er tallet steget til 72 gæster, der i februar fik roskildesyge efter et måltid på Michelin-restauranten Noma. Det siger Morten Lisby, der er tilsynsførende og hygiejneekspert i Fødevarestyrelsen. »Når der er sygdomsudbrud hos kendte restauranter, så sker der altid det samme. Foreløbig er ni nye tilfælde blevet bekræftet siden i fredags. Dermed er antallet af kendte selskaber, der har været udsat for smitten, steget fra 12 til 17. »Så antallet af syge kan stige yderligere«, siger Morten Lisby. Efter sygdomsudbruddet arbejdede Noma tæt sammen med fødevaremyndighederne for at klarlægge årsagen og foretog hovedrengøring af flere omgange for at sikre, at hygiejnen igen er som den skal være. Noma skriver i en pressemeddelelse, at man har kontaktet alle berørte gæster og tilbudt at refundere prisen på deres Noma-måltid eller give dem en erstatningsmiddag.
The Economic Situation, June 2012 Latest Readings on a Throttled Economy The Great Recession ended in June 2009. But like Lazarus of old, the recession seems to be rattling out of the grave. Consider the most recent headline data on the economy. The second reading on first quarter GDP growth came in at 1.9%, down more than a tad from the 2.2% first reported. Then there’s the second round of the European debt crisis, with questions as to whether the latest trouble will bring down U.S. growth. Shortly after getting the weak GDP growth numbers, we received yet another pitiful reading on employment growth. To top it all off, the Institute for Supply Management delivered bad news on the manufacturing economy. Europe’s Trouble and U.S. Europe’s economic problems have already given a light haircut to U.S. But all else will not be equal. The Developing World is still Pumping Iron The developing world is the new engine. Consider export data for a sample of Southeastern states shown in the next chart. We have a muffled economy.
The eurozone’s terrible mistake The FT is reporting today that the new fiscal rules for the EU “include a commitment not to force private sector bondholders to take losses on any future eurozone bail-outs”. If this principle really does get enshrined into some new treaty, it will be one of the most fiscally insane derelictions of statesmanship the world has seen — but it certainly helps explain the short-term rally that we saw today in Italian government debt. Right now, the commitment is still vague: Ms Merkel agreed that private sector bondholders would not be asked to bear some of the losses in any future sovereign debt restructuring, as she had insisted this year in the case of Greece’s second bail-out. You can safely ignore the bit about collective action clauses. The impetus for this completely insane policy seems to have come from the ECB, which genuinely seems to believe that bailing in private-sector banks, in the Greece restructuring, was the “terrible mistake” which caused the current euro crisis.
Free Mobile a-t-il assez investi dans son réseau? Free est à cran. Le "trublion des télécoms" en a assez qu'on l'accuse d'avoir sous-investi dans son réseau mobile, et d'avoir profité de l'accord d'itinérance avec Orange pour se lancer en n'étant pas techniquement prêt. Il a donc décidé de porter plainte contre quiconque osera dénigrer "la réalité de sa couverture ou de ses investissements". Une menace implicite qui n'interdit pas d'essayer de cerner cette réalité... Free investirait 2 à 5 fois moins que Bouygues Free Mobile indique avoir engagé contractuellement, à ce jour, 400 millions d'euros dans le déploiement de son réseau: soit 162 millions qui ont été effectivement décaissés en 2010 et 2011 et 250 millions qui seront engagés cette année. Ces investissements semblent ainsi nettement inférieurs à ceux de Bouygues Telecom, qui était arrivé sur le marché en 1994, plusieurs années après Orange et SFR, et avait lancé ses premières offres commerciales en 1996. Pourquoi une telle différence d'investissements?
Economic and Financial Affairs Latvia: fifth Post-Programme Surveillance mission The assessment of post-programme developments is mixed. Latvia enjoys fast GDP growth rates and the outlook for 2014 and 2015 is overall encouraging, but some problems remain to be addressed with a greater sense of urgency. A smooth euro changeover in Latvia The European Commission today adopted a report on the introduction of the euro in Latvia. The report draws some useful conclusions for future changeovers in other Member States. Spain: results of first post-programme surveillance mission The Commission and the ECB concluded that the positive trends of policy progress, ongoing economic adjustment and diminishing financial stress have continued. Important challenges to sustained economic and employment growth, public finances and the banking sector still remain.
It's the (German) Banks, Stupid! It's the (German) Banks, Stupid!by Yanis Varoufakis Or what's behind Germany's hesitant statements on Greek debt restructuring, Ireland's move against subordinated bondholders, and the ECB's stance on interest rates. . . . Europe is at it again, trying to pretend that it has stemmed the tide of insolvency through its program of lending huge amounts of money (at high interest rates) to . . . insolvent member-states. For a year now many of us have been arguing that, to paraphrase good old Bill Clinton, It is the banks, stupid! This is not to say, of course, that the powers that be do not discuss the banking catastrophe. So, what is the Great Banking Conundrum that Europe is now facing? Question: What is to be done when a currency area (such as the dollar zone, the sterling area, or, indeed, the eurozone) is saddled with a mountain of debt plus banking losses at a time of sluggish growth both internally and externally? Answer: Make this mountain shrink through macroeconomic means. Epilogue
L'arrivée de Free Mobile a bien boosté les investissements dans les télécoms Souvenez-vous du tremblement de terre Free Mobile. L'arrivée de Free Mobile avait beau montrer la faillite morale du capitalisme à la française, un choeur bien intentionné s'était levé contre le quatrième opérateur avec un argument à priori logique : casser les prix briserait l'investissement et l'emploi dans les télécoms. L'argument a le bon sens pour lui : si les opérateurs doivent baisser leurs prix, ils gagnent moins d'argent ; s'ils gagnent moins d'argent, ils investissent moins. A l'époque, j'avais expliqué que l'analyse économique dit le contraire : ce qui pousse à l'investissement dans un secteur, c'est la concurrence. Sans concurrence, un secteur devient oligopolistique et les acteurs n'ont pas de raison d'investir. Les profits vont dans la poche des actionnaires au détriment des consommateurs et de l'emploi. Six mois plus tard, plus besoin de théorie. La raison avancée ? C'est exactement comme ça que l'analyse économique dit qu'un marché doit fonctionner.
EU’s Barroso hints at direct support for European banks LOS CABOS, Mexico: The president of the European Commission suggested on Monday that a way needed to be found to provide direct support to Europe's banks rather than lending to governments so they can recapitalise distressed lenders. Speaking ahead of a summit of the Group of 20 industrialised and developing countries, Jose Manuel Barroso (pic) said the link between highly indebted governments and bad banks needed to be broken, and suggested Spain could be a starting point, although it remains legally difficult to do it immediately. The eurozone agreed on June 9 to provide up to 100 billion euros (US$125bil) to Madrid to recapitalise its banks, with the aid going to the government's bank rescue fund. That means the loans will accrue to Spain's sovereign debt, worsening its debt-to-gross domestic product ratio and increasing its financing costs.
Free Mobile menace ses détracteurs de poursuites Free a l'intention de couper court aux nombreuses polémiques sur la couverture et la qualité de son réseau mobile. "A compter de ce jour, Free Mobile attaquera en justice toute personne dénigrant la réalité de sa couverture ou de ses investissements. Depuis le 10 janvier, le marché français du mobile est concurrentiel et les Français s'en réjouissent, il faut l'accepter", déclare l'opérateur dans un communiqué. Free Mobile, qui n'hésite pas à mettre en cause une "campagne de dénigrement orchestrée", s'est fendu d'un communiqué pour répondre aux critiques de ces dernières semaines. L'entreprise rappelle que ses engagements de couverture ont été vérifiés à deux reprises, selon le protocole de mesure utilisé pour tous les opérateurs. "Il va de soi que ce pourcentage de couverture mesuré en % de la population, n'équivaut pas à une part de trafic identique acheminé en propre sur le réseau", explique Free Mobile, qui avance plusieurs raisons.