The cumulative net profits of CAC 40 companies should exceed 120 billion euros in 2024 for the fourth consecutive year, according to an assessment carried out Thursday by AFP, but they are decreasing over one year, weighed down by certain flagship groups like LVMH and Totalenergies. In total, the 37 companies having unveiled their annual … Read more
In 2024, on the occasion of the Frat des collegiens, a « affluence record » of 11,000 participants had been recorded in Jambville. This year, it’s the turn of the high school students, in Lourdes (Hautes-Pyrénées), to stock up. As of January 17, the organizers have already validated just over 12,000 registrations. “Since 1908, we … Read more
In line with the previous government, Prime Minister François Bayrou emphasized on Tuesday his desire for savings and simplification of processes in the administration, without revealing the details, going so far as to denounce a « bureaucracy » judged “too heavy” et “incredibly harmful to the development of the country”. Following in the footsteps of … Read more
The human toll from Cyclone Chido in Mayotte now stands at 39 deaths, according to a new count published Tuesday, December 24 by the prefect of Mayotte in a press release. This does not specify the total number of injuries recorded after the passage of the cyclone which devastated this French archipelago in the Indian … Read more
When Guy de Saint-Vaury organized the first pilgrimage for farmers from Creuse to Lourdes in 2005, the cattle breeder was already hit hard by the mad cow crisis of the early 2000s. Twenty years later later, the event became national for the first time, and brought together, Saturday December 7 and Sunday December 8, around … Read more
The group Shaka Ponk bids farewell to the stage this Saturday, November 30. Tonight’s concert at the Accord Arena in Paris Bercy is the last date of the tour « The Final F#*ked Up tour ». But also the final chance for fans to immerse themselves in the unique universe of its two singers, Sam … Read more
Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala must be reappointed for a second term at the head of the WTO on Friday, less than two months before Donald Trump’s return to business and his stated refusal to comply with the rules of international trade. The first woman and first African to head the World Trade Organization, she is the … Read more
Tires and manure dumped in front of the Pas-de-Calais prefecture, filter dams on the A21 at the call of the Rural Coordination, wall erected in front of the Ardennes prefecture at the call of the FDSEA: farmers began a campaign on Monday second week of mobilizations. In Arras, around a hundred farmers crossed the town … Read more
For its reopening, Notre-Dame de Paris will be equipped with a new votive candle, all white with a blue wick, entirely biodegradable, and whose manufacturing has been entrusted to the Ciergerie de Lourdes which is running its small factory at full capacity. “Symbolically it is a bit of the light of Lourdes which enters Paris”explains … Read more
The universal Church comes to Lourdes. The Plenary Assembly of the Bishops of France, from November 5 to 10, will be marked by the opening intervention of Mgr Sviatoslav Chevtchouk, primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He will testify to the situation of his country at war and will tell how the Ukrainians have … Read more