Tag: billion
Covid-19 bill for public finances: “35 billion only for this partial unemployment”
An envelope on which we are now fixed: the additional cost for the State represented by the Covid-19 crisis in terms of social benefits last year amounts to 45 billion…
Congress Approves the $770 Billion Defense Act
The vast majority of the US Senate supported the $770 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), passed the bill and sent it to President Joe Biden for signature. Biden is…
Amazon fined 1 billion euros for “abuse of dominant position”
The American multinational Amazon will have to pay a colossal fine for not having respected the rules of competition in online commerce in Italy. With our correspondent in Rome, Anne…
Donald Trump announces $1 billion investment for social media company
Former US President Donald Trump’s new social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group, has signed deals to raise $1 billion from investors before registering on the stock market. Trump…
Global tourism set to lose $ 2,000 billion in 2021
The global tourism sector is expected to lose another 2,000 billion dollars this year under the effect of restrictions linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, announced on Monday the World Tourism…
IMF to give Zambia $ 1.4 billion
The first country on the continent to default on its debt after the start of the pandemic, Zambia sees an improvement after the agreement given by the IMF for a…
Teachers’ absences: 10% of hours lost and 4 billion euros
In a recent report, the Court of Auditors notes that the majority of teachers’ absences are due to service obligations. It therefore calls for more systematic replacements between colleagues during…
With 300 billion euros, the EU wants to create a “global portal” to counter China
The European Commission unveiled on Wednesday 1 December an investment plan of 300 billion euros worldwide for the next six years. Caught up in the Sino-American economic tug-of-war, the EU…
Participants in Elon Musk’s Twitter survey: Sell your $21 billion stake in Tesla
Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO and one of the richest business people in the world, asked his 62.6 million followers on Twitter whether he should sell 10 percent of the company’s…