Germany offers refugees "mini-jobs" at a time euro

ervir food, repairing beds or watering plants child offers "mini-jobs" that refugees can make in Germany for payment of one euro an hour, a measure being challenged by doubts of its effectiveness to integrate newcomers into the labor market.

Ladle and spatula in hand, Zaid, an Iraqi 23, lift the cover of a tray filled with goulash and cakes father. While serving portions tries to explain to other refugees the recipe for this dish, a "very German" dish seasoned with oil and beef broth.

From 18h30 to 20h, Zaid is employed by the city of Berlin to distribute an dinner 152 other Syrian refugees, Iraqis, Afghans and Moldovans attending an Berlin gym transformed into worldly reception center.

No ban, Zaid performs its duties with a big smile. "This allows me to have contact with Germans who come here to distribute food and volunteer with me and practice the language," said the refugee, who fled his hometown, Hilla, with his father and his sister six months ago.

"I'm not turning it around town without knowing what to do," he added. In the hostel where he lives, boredom sometimes causes conflict, as the most trivial nonsense leads people to raise their voices in disputes even come to blows.

Berlin currently employs 3,925 refugees in 75 reception centers. The city, heavily criticized for managing the arrival of migrants, now wants to expand its range of "jobs for one euro" an classified as public utility associations.

In Bavaria, one of the states that host more refugees, more than 9,000 people exercise these jobs. Hannover can work repairing bicycles, sorting clothes or accompanying children to the nursery, in exchange for German classes.

- Springboard or via exclusion?

Labour Minister, Andrea Nahles, promised the creation of 100,000 jobs of this kind for refugees. These "scaled down jobs," one euro had been launched ten years in a labor market reform.

"In the short term, it is a sensible measure, since otherwise the refugees would have no chance to work," said AFP Ronald Bachmann, an economist at the renowned institute RWI, based in Essen (west).

While his record has not been analyzed, asylum seekers have no right to work legally. "Seeing refugees working also sends a political signal," said the expert, referring to populist rhetoric criticizing migrants live at the expense of the German state.

These jobs, which were intended for long-term unemployed, had almost been forgotten and because "it is rare, very rare, that allow entering the labor market, as many things do not learn," said Ronald Bachmann.

The president of the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB), Reiner Hoffmann, ruled against these jobs because it says his country needs a more ambitious to integrate refugees into the productive system program.

In this sense, Holger Schäfer, an expert in labor markets IW Institute, this program "subsidizes the exclusion of refugees in the labor market."

Zaid, meanwhile, have no intention of pursuing a career in the area of ​​restoration and expects integration courses you took in high school in Berlin allow him to return sometime computer studies which interrupted in Iraq.

Large US clothing stores, restless for online sales

Americans perceived garments stores Macy's and Gap face intense inquiries regarding their future after awful results, which agree with an undeniably solid nearness online deals.

The advantages of conventional stores keep on falling, with less customers in shopping centers. Rather, they incline toward shopping at Amazon and a rising flood of offering garments on the web.

The pattern is all the more amazing seen that these stores are great monetary conditions for shoppers, including solid job levels.

Really, we're scratching our heads, said CFO of Macy's, Karen Hoguet, an expert amid a phone call. We see the same figures as you and point to a purchaser who might spend more.

- Smartphones rather than stores -

In the initial four months of 2016, offers of online stores grew 8.1% contrasted with a year ago, while offers of physical stores did only 1.9%, as per the Commerce Department.

We are seeing a major redesign as deal, which happened to be founded on the auto rely on upon the cell phone, said Andy Dunn, chief Bonobos, a dress store that offers men generally on the web.

We see huge likewise remezón with the development of online deals and compression of customary, he included.

Still, he included, I don't believe we're moving to a universe of online deals as it were.

In ladies' garments, there are additionally developing online stores like Wanelo site that "cure" items 550,000 dealers furthermore works as interpersonal organization to purchasers.

There are unique measures for hefty size ladies, as Eloquii, and for purchasers intrigued by reasonable assembling, as Reformation.

There are additionally sites that join style publication and deals capacities, as WhoWhatWear, which is a piece of Click Media Group, which achieves 12 million novel guests for each month.

Individuals now understand that you have more alternatives, said Chris Morran, boss supervisor of Consumerist.com. I don't see any of the (new) organizations supplanting Gap, yet constructing a street.

Purchasers say that the online experience is vastly improved than a couple of years prior with sellers that permit returns and once in a while even pay the transportation of things that don't fit. Essentially, most online merchants permit purchasers to look at items and costs.

It's not only that you don't need to go out, you don't need to go around, said a lady of in regards to forty past years, mother of two youngsters. It's exceptionally proficient.

Men's style is encountering earth shattering developments. Gone are the days when shops could be endowed to a hostage gathering of people of catches purchasing shirts for the workplace. Stores like Thomas Pink and Charles Tyrwhitt and offer an assortment of sizes for various body sorts that can be bought on the web.

Bonobos, which began as an online store just for men in 2007, started to include little work areas with the goal that individuals could test their items.

The physical store is truly productive, Dun told AFP. In any case, it is the physical store has satisfactory nearness, and is completely incorporated with the online webpage.

- Benefits still little -

In any case, the advantages are still confined by components, for example, the high cost of transportation and solid rivalry. Net revenues in physical stores are around 10%, contrasted with 7% on the web, the bank Credit Suisse.

Nonetheless, to the degree that lower shipping expenses and rental and other base expenses are kept in customary stores, the last end enduring, Credit Suisse included. Which it implies that increasingly physical stores could close.

Nordstrom, for instance, reported that organize a system of steadfast clients and restrictive stock, and fortify its web exchanging.

We are seeing a change in our plan of action, the CFO of the organization, Mike Koppel said. We are as yet checking individuals less and less to the shopping centers, so our physical stores require some level of modification.

Macy's, which reported in January arrangements to close 40 stores, is starting to concentrate on leasing of its stores to establishments, hoping to draw in millennials.

Hoguet said Macy's is "continually assessing" their 870 stores for conceivable terminations.

Hole, which a year back declared arrangements to cancel its 175 stores in North America, reported another way to deal with streamline its operations and decrease its global nearness in the most encouraging markets.

Business associations account for 40% of the new record 'lobbies' of the CNMC (MADRID)

Business associations account for 40% of enrollments in the new record 'lobbies' of the National Commission Markets and Competition (CNMC), which are already more than 230 individuals and organizations.

As stated in the record itself, the number of registered professional associations is 95, which include the 'lobbies' reference sectors ranging from motor (Anfac), electricity (UNESA) or insurance (Unespa) to game (ANESAR) or caregivers gardens (Aseja).

Companies that have registered independently only amounted to 20. Among them the best known are sharing trip, Siemens Healthcare, British American Tobacco and EasyJet as well as the grouping of multinational companies by Mark Spain.

Together with business associations, another large group of registered what shape the entities to which the CNMC categorized as consulting services and advice. In this category are the main communication agencies and public relations of the country as well as legal and business consulting profile.

The record also includes 42 non-governmental organizations, of which the majority, 38, are foundations. From the consumer organization OCU to the Spanish Confederation of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) or the Spanish Defense Council Disability and Dependency appear in this category.

They have also approached the CNMC a total of eleven organizations from science and research, as calculated by the regulator, which has been a pioneer in Spain in the development of a record of this type.

CONTROL OF STAKEHOLDERS.

The body chaired by José María Marín Quemada defends the initiative for seeking transparency and control over the activity of the various stakeholders, which considers legitimate and even necessary.

The purpose of registration, said the CNMC, is to create an institutional mechanism to ward off the ability of any group to influence unfairly regulator, whether or not exactly aligned with the general interest.

Registration, which is voluntary, requires associations to identify the interests they represent, people who act as partners and enterprises or participants who make up the organization.

Industrial and the State of Mexico working on joint agenda

The Confederation of Industrial Chambers Concamin and the government of the State of Mexico agreed to the integration of the agency in the State Council for Regulatory Improvement and installing a joint working.

The industry body said that it seeks to achieve a more effective link and exploit productive areas of opportunity in the state, with concrete proposals and periodic evaluations around various issues of common interest.

Among such issues investment development, security, mobility and industry academia linkage for talent development was mentioned, he said.
CONCAMIN president, Manuel Vega Herrera, considered as a priority for the Mexican industry maintain constant communication with government agencies of the State of Mexico.
The company, he said, represents the second largest economy in the country and therefore a strategic entity for the development of various productive activities, contributing 9.0 percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

During the monthly meeting of Board of CONCAMIN, with the participation of Governor of the State of Mexico, Eruviel Ávila, as a special guest, he expressed the conviction body to strengthen ties with this state.

He noted that CONCAMIN has multiple issues of productive development with state and wants to promote the strategic priorities of the industry, based on competitiveness and productivity of businesses, generating innovation and production chain by promoting the talent of the people of the region.

Vega Herrera thanked the governor of the State of Mexico for their support and effort by signing the agreement with industry to regulate Hoy No Circula Metropolitan affecting the entity, along with Mexico City.

Meanwhile, Ávila Villegas acknowledged the work of CONCAMIN and its president, while requesting your support to continue working together with industry.

Spirits expects the "coup" in Brazil does not damage the economy in Latin America

The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, reiterated today his condemnation of what he considers a congressional and legall  coup against Brazil President Dilma Rousseff and wished that what happened does not harm the economy of Latin America.

I do not agree that there is a stroke of congressional and legal character. As no feed military coup, now maybe conservatives are in the legal organ, or perhaps most of Congress is right to give blow an a government of the PT Partido Workers "the Bolivian president said in a speech in the east.

Hopefully this political fact does not do much damage to South America or Latin America an economically", he added the president.

He stressed that everyone knows the economic powerhouse that is Brazil, and when in that country feed any conflict, "roughage political instability too much damage, so Latin American local economy, South America is."

The Brazilian Senate decided Thursday to impeach impeachment purposes Rousseff, leaving his presidential duties in suspense until the last of the legal process.

The President of Brazil has assumed on an interim Vice President Michel Temer.

The new Brazilian Foreign Minister Jose Serra, has rejected criticism of what happened in his country and warned that "raise the tone" if necessary to meet the "falsehoods" of those who question the process suspended Rousseff.

In his speech, the Bolivian president said it is different when the right wins power democratically at the polls as happened in Argentina, referring to President Mauricio Macri.

He won the right respect, but internally will in Argentina its impact on social issues, he said.

Spirits also said that unlike the past when the rule used to give military coups and imposed dictatorships in Latin America, now feed "military nationalists, leftists".

So he said, right now, the conservative political currents, pro-capitalist, pro-imperialist used to the judicial and legislative bodies to attack "against democracy". EFE

Still Growing consumption as growth engine: private part

The Center for Economic Studies of the Private Sector (CEESP) estimated that domestic consumption preserves an important dynamism as a source of growth of gross domestic product (GDP), which is reflected in the increase of more than 10 percent sales shops of supermarkets and department.

The agency considered that the general conditions of the economy seem to have no direct relationship with this dynamic, as the pace of economic growth remains comparable to that of the last 30 years.

However, some related indicators show a great performance, as the evolution of workers in the IMSS, which at the end of last April added a complete of 18 million 237 thousand workers, which in the first four months of the year were added 353400 more records.

In his weekly "executive Economic Analysis", he considered that some factors may have an impact on the dynamism of consumption in an environment and outlook weak economy in a context of global instability.

One element has been the downward trend shown by inflation since early 2015, to settle at their historically low levels, which has helped improve the purchasing power of wages genuine, that January an April this year recovered 8.3 percent.

Another component that seems to have a major impact on the evolution of consumption is the inflow of family remittances to the country, which have significantly benefited the recipients by the effect of the exchange rate.

He said that in 2015 entered the country 24 thousand 792 million dollars in remittances, while the exchange rate depreciated by 17.6 percent, and the conversion to pesos, were 79 thousand 274 million weights greater than the 2014 amount that should be used for drinking.

While during the first three months of this year, the flow of remittances in pesos exceeded 26 thousand 508 million pesos to the figure of 2015, and in both cases, child the highest figures over the number of remittances published by Banco de Mexico since 1995.

One element contributing to the positive behavior of consumption is increasing the population of the country, that the groundwork quarter of 2016 exceeded 1.7 million people the figures of the same period of 2015, and has led to an increase in the wage bill.

An additional cause that may also promote sales indicators is the expenditure of political parties related to election campaigns this year, which is seen by many pantries and incentives that have been left recently discovered.

These factors, pointed out, have favored the evolution of consumption, but have responded largely an conjunctural events, which is not definite that can be maintained in the medium and long term.

Risk it, the research organization considered major private area continue working on strengthening the factors that stimulate investment, growth, employment and confidence of households and businesses.

"This I will establish firm and not short-term basis to achieve a more dynamic performance of the economy and reach the target growth rates close to 5.0 percent on a sustained basis," he said.

Nissan will purchase 34 percent of Mitsubishi Motors

The builder Japanese automaker Nissan will acquire, through a capital increase, 34% of Mitsubishi Motors, which is immersed in a fraud scandal, according to official documents released Thursday.

In documents submitted to the Financial Services Agency (FSA) and consulted by AFP, Mitsubishi Motors said it will issue for Nissan 506.6 million common shares an a price of 468.52 yen unit, for all out of 237,000 360 billion yen (equivalent to two thousand 180 million dollars, or a thousand 900 million euros).

The action was worth 495 yen Mitsusbishi Motors on Wednesday, just bets that the press gave the first information on the discussions of the two groups.

After confirmation, the action on Thursday gained 16.16% to 575 yen.

The participation agreement which will be signed Nissan Risks May 25, and the transaction will be effective in October.

With this operation, Nissan Motor will become the leader shareholder of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC), ahead of the group Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which owns 20% of the shares.

The two groups were already partners: Nissan saloons supplied to MMC and MMC manufactures mini vehicles to Nissan.

Nissan was exactly who discovered the irregularities in the measurement of energy efficiency of vehicles Mitsubishi Motors.

Mitsubishi Motors admitted on April 20 handling this data in four models to improve their energy efficiency. Later, he acknowledged using tests not approved in Japan for 25 years.

Since this scandal came to light, Japanese sales of Mitsubishi Motors fell and action sank more than 40%, creating uncertainty about the future of the group, one of the smaller Japanese manufacturers, with only one million of vehicles sold per year.

The IMF warns that the UK economy will suffer if you leave the EU

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that a vote for the departure of UK EU - "brexit" - in the referendum on June 23 I could have a "negative" and "considerable" impact on the British economy .

The IMF Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, presented in London today a report on the economic situation in the UK, in which it warns that the country would suffer an "extended period of uncertainty" and a decrease in commercial transactions, plus volatility in financial markets.

The analysis indicates that the conclusion of the consultation and has an "impact" on investment and recruitment.

Lagarde brandished the "brexit" carries a "downside risk" to the economy and the prospect of withdrawal is causing "anxiety throughout the world."

The IMF points out, however, that the decision on whether the UK should or should not leave the European bloc is something that concerns the British electorate and that the decision it takes "reflect the economic and non-economic factors."

He adds that it is likely that the reaction of global markets to the "brexit" is "negative" and even "could be serious".

"A vote for the brexit could precipitate a prolonged period of uncertainty, leading to volatile financial markets and a blow to the production period," he insists.

At the same time, the Fund warns that a new trade agreement with Europe could be "unresolved for years" with an effect on investment and the economy.

In his paper, it highlights even London's position as a global financial center could be "eroded" since some companies based in the UK could eventually move into continental Europe.

The -puntualiza- markets could not wait to see the impact of "brexit" in the economy and react negatively, which can give way to a fall in housing prices, an increase in borrowing costs for families and the business sector, and even a sudden stop the flow of investment in sectors such as finance and commercial property.

The "brexit" could have an impact particularly on the British domestic market, explains the IMF.

The agency gave this warning after the Bank of England indicate yesterday that the possible departure of UK EU will slow the growth of the British economy.

In its latest quarterly report, the issuing bank said yesterday that confirmed the break in London with Brussels in June referendum would cause a "drastic" devaluation of the pound and an important rise in inflation, among other negative factors.

Women, taxes, impersonations: last that bothers Donald Trump

public insults women and sexual harassment dark, covered like his tax return. A exmayordomo threatening President Barack Obama or impersonation. The Republican candidate Donald Trump has had to get defensive after a week in which the press has not stopped to remove dirt from her closet.

Trump and his "girls"

Trump has no qualms about publicly ranting against women who question it is something that has proven time and again. Since it is a presidential candidate, he has insulted one of the moderators star fetish chain conservatives, Megyn Kelly, the only woman who ran for the Republican nomination, Carly Fiorina, and wife of Ted Cruz, his arch rival in the presidential race, Heidi. Trump, married to a former model and for years has organized the Miss Universe contest, he mocked some physical aspect of these women. What now says The New York Times is also privately attitude playboy tycoon with an air of the opposite sex it has been more than questionable for decades. It is not something new: for years that stories of alleged sexual harassment and verbal abuse against women magnate published. But the New York newspaper now assembles all on an image that comes to give chills. And it also shows the Trump ultraconservative stance when it comes to their wives. For Trump, the "ideal woman" was his mother, who did not work and that "always understood" and a husband who worked nonstop and could disrupt any plan at any time if the work demanded him settled. A paradox is that Trump has not hesitated to place in high places of business women, including his then-wife Ivana Trump. But dealing with them, she remembers the day, no longer condescending and even humiliating. Trump himself defined in 1997 in one of his books, The Art of the Comeback, the paper considers should have a wife of his: "My big mistake was to take Ivana her role as a woman and allow direct one of my casinos ( ...) the problem was that I just wanted to talk about work. I will never give a wife responsibilities in my business. " Trump's response to the article has been accusing him, in a tweet, not to interview women who helped and launch a challenge: "Why do not you write the Times the true story of the Clintons and women?"

Trump and taxes

It seems that this is the week of tax mysteries of Trump. One of the mysteries is why Donald Trump, unlike any other important official candidate of the modern era, refuses to publish their tax returns. The other is the reason why, having decided that you need to settle their ridiculous experts tax cut proposals, has chosen to request the services of a panda is not able to think clearly.

On the first mystery: the excuse of Trump, who can not publish their tax returns while being audited, is a blatant lie. On the contrary, the fact that you are doing an audit (or so he says) should facilitate the publication of statements; after all, you need not fear that gives rise to an audit. It is clear that must hide something. What?

Could be the few taxes paid, revelation hurt Mitt Romney in 2012. But I doubt it; given the trajectory of Trump, probably you boast that their ability to play with the tax system shows how smart he is, compared to all the losers out there.

My guess, with which many observers agree, is that the dark hidden secret in these statements is that it is not as rich as it pretends to be. In Trumpilandia, the revelation that his fortune only amounts to a couple of thousands of millions of dollars-maybe even less than billion- would be a terrible humiliation. So will try to muddle through. Of course, if successful, we will never know.

Meanwhile, however, we can analyze the policy proposals of the candidate. And what has happened in this area is so revealing in its own way, as his attempt to evade the scrutiny of your personal finances.

This is the story so far: last fall, Trump hinted That break with Republican orthodoxy by taxing the rich. But then a tax plan to have Announced That, in fact, lavished tax cuts to the wealthiest. And, According to independent analysis, it triggers Also add acerca the deficit to $ 10 trillion to the national debt Within a decade.

But the inconsistency Between rhetoric and concrete Proposals Trump does not seem to Have Been harmed During the Republican primary. Nor the tremendous irresponsibility That Represent These specific details, Perhaps Because all major candidates for the Republican nomination proposing huge tax cuts for the rich Might burst budgets. It is true That none of them was as crazy as Trump's plan, but probably not Those distinctions Weighed heavily Among primary voters (four billion, 10 billion, so what?).

However, now it has secured That the nomination, Trump Apparently the need to look feels more respectable. The goal, I suspect, is to reduce The most striking figures is enough to start the propensity of the media to false equivalences. What Hillary Clinton has a plan whos That Increases revenue, while Donald Trump will cost four billion dollars, claims That, Although I will not Affect the deficit? They are the same thing.

Oh, and meanwhile, I have returned to insinuate That Could raise them and then a tax the rich have recanted, while the average swallowed it all gullible.

But the really interesting is who has used Trump, According to Politico, to review Their plans: Larry Kudlow, CNBC, and Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation. When reading the news, economic Analysts from across the US will Have choked on coffee.

For those who are not aware of these issues, history reveals that Kudlow is wrong ... well, everything. In 2005, he mocked the "obsessed bubble which foresaw the collapse of housing prices in Las Vegas or Naples (Florida) sink consumption, the rest of the economy and the entire stock market" ( that was exactly what happened). In 2007 he predicted three years of prosperity "smoothly". And so on.

Moore has a history of comparable predictions, but also has an extraordinary inability to see the facts clearly. Perhaps the best known is when he tried to refute my arguments with an article detailing the alleged benefits of state tax cuts; Incredibly, not one of the figures of that article was correct.

So why, of all possible people, Trump would resort to these two, ahem, fix your numbers?

Perhaps the case of a peace offering, an attempt to reassure the party people bringing Kudlow and Moore, who are influential members of the Republican leadership (which, incidentally, says a lot of his party).

But I suspect that the explanation is simple: the candidate has no idea who is responsible and who is not. I mean, it's not as if he himself had knowledge of economics, or even know what they do not know. For example, it continues to assert that America has the highest taxes in the world, when in fact we have the lowest among advanced countries.

So probably has been limited to choosing a couple of guys who've seen on television, assuming that if they are there is because they know what they are talking.

Now, you may wonder how someone so careless and so little curiosity has been so successful in business. Although a possible answer would be how much success he has had in reality. What's in those tax returns?

War plans and rates among power companies How to choose?

Companies take advantage of smart meters to launch bids for hours and services

hourly electricity bills , which began operating last October 1 for users with regulated tariff , offers possibilities of saving if it suits certain times . However , the task is complicated : the part of the bill that has been most expensive does not depend on consumption, but tolls regulated , and large companies , meanwhile , have waged a trade war to attract more customers to the market free. The companies offer plans that baptized as flat rates, discounts for weekend or season. They're worth it? It is difficult to calculate if it suits you . In the end, to save a few euros should study carefully when to concentrate your consumption in very specific times, collect offers and take out the calculator.

Thank smart meters to measure actual consumption of the user, the benchmark companies have expanded their range of offerings and consumer packs to shield its market share against the myriad of independent traders outcropping with the liberalization of the sector. Iberdrola was the first company to launch offers adapted to the new billing model. Company sources say that today there are 200,000 customers benefited from its plans to your needs, a business proposal consists of seven hourly rates offering discounts and mold the price of energy based on the consumption patterns of users smart meter. With current pricing, which replaced the previous model of quarterly auctions, energy prices are set according to the daily price per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in the wholesale market. But only users who are in the regulated market paid according to these fluctuations; on the open market each company sets a different price for energy according to the plan chosen by the customer. The heart of this system are the new meters, which store the user consumption information and transmit it to businesses, provided they are tele-managed, that is integrated into the smart grid of the same.