When the groundbreaking "Only yes means yes" law was passed last October, Spain breathed a sigh of relief: it was hoped that violence against women would finally end. A new wave of murders fuels doubts about the usefulness of the law. Right? The last month of 2022 went down in Spanish history as "Black December": eleven women were murdered by their current or former partners, the shock in the country runs deep. There is no news program without a report...
Status: 01/19/2023 12:47 p.m In order to get the shortage of skilled workers under control, the need for older people on the labor market is increasing. The number of people who work longer hours has been increasing for the last ten years. Germany is above the EU average. Older people in Europe are working more and more often. In Germany, the employment rate of 55 to 64 year olds increased by ten percentage points within ten years to 72 percent...
"I believe outright bans are simplistic solutions." Minister Delegate for Transport Clément Beaune, who spoke about France 2 this Tuesday morning, do not want to see free-floating scooters disappear. His statements come four days after the initiative of the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo to organize a referendum on the banning of self-service electric scooters in the capital – which she herself is in favor of – on April 2.The Minister Delegate for Transport is also working on "a scooter...
+30% on the price of meat, +20% on pasta or oil, +16% on eggs… How to relieve the budget of the French, undermined by a price increase of more than 6% over one year? For the government, an answer to this problem seems to take the form of an “anti-inflation basket”. “One of the possibilities [pour amortir la hausse des prix]is to have a basket […] of about twenty products, which large retailers would undertake to sell almost at cost...
The emotion is palpable when Frédéric Dauch pushes the door of the large hangar, in one of the ArianeGroup factories in Gironde, in Saint-Médard-en-Jalles near Bordeaux. Behind sits proudly, in the middle of the room, a skirt, a huge metal piece in the shape of a cylinder. Fully wired and connected, it is ready before leaving for Kourou in French Guiana, for the maiden flight of Ariane 6 scheduled for the end of the year.Rear skirt of the Ariane 6...
Brett Harrison, who stepped down as chairman of FTX US before the company went bankrupt. has come out to shed light on his relationship with the SBF. He added that he and other executives at FTX US were unaware of the fraud that SBF and his closest partners were committing in the Bahamas. Harrison explains that he knows Sam Bankman-Fried. From his days at Jane Street and having “good memories” of him, Harrison describes SBF as a “conscience young trader”...
Gigafactory in Gruenheide IG Metall concerned about working conditions at Tesla Employees walk to the Tesla factory in a parking lot early in the morning © Patrick Pleul / DPA In the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide, there is dissatisfaction among the employees. It's about frequent overtime, a very high workload overall and not enough staff. A job advertisement in an investigative role also causes concern. IG Metall is concerned about working conditions at the German Tesla plant. Employees reported to...
We now know a little more about the origin of the breakdown that once again paralyzed the Lyon metro line B, this Thursday morning. For four hours, traffic was interrupted between the stations of Charpennes and Stade de Gerland. This umpteenth malfunction is due to "a failure" of the company responsible for carrying out night work on the site aimed at extending the line to the hospitals in the east of Lyon.The teams working at night "did not return the...
computer Report: Apple working on touchscreen Macs for 2025 The logo of the technology company Apple at the Apple Store in downtown Munich. photo © Sven Hoppe/dpa Unlike other major manufacturers, Apple has deliberately avoided equipping its Macs with touch-sensitive screens for years. That could change soon. According to a media report, Apple could launch Mac computers with a touchscreen in a departure from its previous strategy. The group is considering the year 2025 for this, wrote the financial service...
National team DFB junior manager on World Cup lessons: working on defensiveness In an interview, the head coach of the U-national teams talks about World Cup findings, among other things. photo © Oliver Killig/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa Since Germany lost the preliminary round at the World Cup in Qatar, there has been renewed discussion about training youngsters. Junior head coach Meikel Schönweitz draws a few lessons from his World Cup visit. After its World Cup observations, the German Football Association has shown the...
