Pay companies to hire youth, OECD suggests
PARIS (Reuters) - The plight of youth unemployment in developed economies is so severe it has prompted the OECD to call for more government intervention, possibly including paying companies to...
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Hollande shuns fight with protected jobs as EU pressure builds
PARIS (Reuters) - It looks like a bread line in Soviet Russia, but the queue snaking away from Paris's Opera Garnier house on a Saturday night is full of tourists...
France hits rich families’ tax breaks in benefit reforms
PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande's government on Monday announced cuts in tax breaks for rich households as part of a plan to reduce the huge cost of France's generous...
OECD drive against tax avoidance gets fresh backing
PARIS (Reuters) - The days when multinational companies could exploit fiscal loopholes to escape tax could soon be numbered, after governments gave the OECD strong backing to design an international...
OECD cuts world economic forecast
PARIS (Reuters) - The recession-hit euro zone will fall further behind a generally improving United States and a rebounding Japan this year, the OECD said on Wednesday, cutting its global...
France’s Hollande offers business tax relief in charm offensive
PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande unveiled new reductions on capital gains taxes from the sale of small companies on Monday, a measure aimed at appeasing entrepreneurs who say high...
ECB’s Weidmann warns of inflation if central banks do too much
JOUY-EN-JOSAS, France (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should move back toward traditional monetary policy and away from its current path which is too close to fiscal policy, ECB Governing...
France urges action on euro, wins little support
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France called on Monday for coordinated action by the world's major economies to counter the strength of the euro and avoid damaging an economic recovery, but Europe's...
France urges action on euro, wins little support
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France called on Monday for coordinated action by the world's major economies to counter the strength of the euro and avoid damaging an economic recovery, but Europe's...
French mortgage bank bailout may cost Hollande
PARIS (Reuters) - A state lifeline to wind down a small, ailing French mortgage lender is likely to carry a political price for President Francois Hollande as he grapples with...