Le magazine financier Forbes a publié le classement des artistes et groupes qui ont gagné le plus d’argent cette année. Top 10.

Oublié les problèmes de santé de Bono! Les rockeurs de U2 décrochent le pactole et trustent la première place du palmarès Forbes. Le groupe irlandais a empoché près de 100 millions d’euros et devance les vétérans australiens d’AC-DC. Les papis en kilts ont fait fructifier leurs riffs indémodables sur la bande originale d’Iron Man2 et ont assuré une tournée lucrative au son de leur nouvel album Black Ice.

Sur la troisième marche du podium se déhanche la déesse Soul et star du R’n’B: Beyoncé. Reine des Grammy Awards, Artiste Féminine de la Décennie (selon le palmarès du magazines Billboard), Femme de l’Année (selon Women In Music 2009), Bee a chanté pour

, s’est installée en couple à Manhattan et a vendu cette années des millions de disques. Gloire, amour et fortune aussi. Avec Jay-Z (en 6e position), ils forment le «couple le plus riche du monde», fabriquent les plus gros hits de la planète, ont la main sur des lignes de vêtements et font la promo de marques comme American Express, Nintendo L’Oréeal ou Budweiser. Mais au summum du succès, la Dream Girl et son époux ont décidé de faire un break.

Derrière la Texane, le Boss,

, une valeur sûre, et la lolitrash

, dont le Circus a bien fonctionné.

La sexy Lady Gaga fait une entrée tonitruante dans le top grâce aux ventes mirobolantes de son album et des billets de son incontournable Monster Ball Tour. La diva déjantée fait mieux que son idole Madonna, qui se targue pourtant d’un contrat mirobolant avec Dolce & Gabbana.

Enfin, Kenny Chesney nous rappelle que la Country est un genre prolifique outre-Atlantique qui lui permet de distancer les Black Eyed Peas et Coldplay, ex-æquo… et derniers!

Classement des musiciens qui ont amassé le plus de gains ces 12 derniers mois (sommes exprimées en dollars):

1. U2 (130 millions)?

2. AC/DC (114 millions)?

3. Beyoncé (87 millions)

?4. Bruce Springsteen (70 millions)

?5. Britney Spears (64 millions)?

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6. Jay-Z (63 millions)?

7. Lady Gaga(62 millions)?

8. Madonna (58 millions)

?9. Kenny Chesney (50 millions)

?10. Black Eyes Peas (48 millions)?et Coldplay (48 millions)

Mardi 20 juillet 2010

Le commissaire Maigret n’est plus. Décédé le 7 août d’un cancer de la langue à 80 ans, Bruno Cremer a été inhumé aujourd’hui au cimetière Montparnasse, après une cérémonie où nombre de personnalités du 7e art se se jointes à la famille de l’acteur. Outre sa femme et ses enfants, ses amis et collègues de tournages ont fait le déplacement, tels Jean Rochefort, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Marielle, ou encore Claude Rich. Une cérémonie qui s’est tenue en l’église Saint Thomas d’Aquin, dans le 7e arrondissement de Paris, devant de nombreux fans, venus lui rendre un dernier hommage.

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Ponta eyes constitutional reform

Coalition wins 66% of seats in the parliament as centre-right alliance splits up because of bad result.

Romania’s ruling coalition won an overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday (9 December), securing enough seats – pending confirmation – to change the constitution. 

The formal process of establishing a government will begin tomorrow afternoon (14 December), after President Traian Basescu returns from the two-day European Council. Victor Ponta, the winning coalition’s leader and the serving prime minister, said he would like to have a cabinet in place by the end of this year.

Basescu made clear ahead of the election that he would find it very hard to stomach another government under Ponta – it would be like “swallowing a pig”, he said – after seven months of co-habitation in which the Ponta-led Social Liberal Union (USL) suspended Basescu for 52 days and sought his impeachment. Ponta also brought in a raft of sweeping measures using emergency edicts, which were reversed only under pressure from the European Commission.

However, Basescu’s room for manoeuvre is limited. Crin Antonescu, who leads the liberal wing of the ruling coalition, warned during the election campaign that the USL may make another attempt to impeach Basescu if he “goes against the spirit of the constitution and the clear display of the political will of the electorate”.

Ponta himself made a very clear, albeit less specific, threat after the election. “In the period immediately after the election, he who raises the sword will die by the sword,” he said. “I hope this message will be understood by all those who were at the root of this lost year for Romania.”

Ponta and Antonescu have been fortified by the massive mandate given to their alliance by the electorate. The USL, which was formed 21 months ago, won 58.6% of the popular vote in elections to the lower house of parliament, enough to give it 66% of seats. It also won 60.1% in the Senate election, giving it almost 70% of seats in the upper house.

Constituional changes

The provisional results – which may be confirmed tomorrow – give the USL the possibility of changing the constitution without the support of other parties. Ponta, who leads the socialist wing of the USL, indicated in the immediate aftermath of the vote that he would seek a ‘super-majority’ with a party representing Romania’s Hungarian minority. The Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UMDR) secured 5.3% of the vote.

However, Antonescu’s liberals have ruled out incorporation of the UMDR into the government.

The election decimated the centre-right. A coalition created in September in an attempt to salvage votes, the three-party Alliance of the Romanian Right (ARD), won just 16.7% of the vote. The effect has been to halve the alliance’s seats in the lower house. The ARD has already disbanded itself.

Its poor showing was almost matched by the last of the four parties to enter parliament, the populist People’s Party-Dan Diaconescu, formed and named after a charismatic and controversial media magnate.

Projections of the exact distribution of seats vary, as the size of the parliament has been expanded. That change and the USL’s proximity to a constitutional majority add to the importance of the announcement of the final results by the central electoral committee.

Turnout was low by European standards – at 41.7% – but was higher than in the last parliamentary elections in 2008, when 39.2% of the electorate cast votes.

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In the coming weeks, probably in early January, the European Commission will publish its latest assessment of Romania’s progress since its accession to the EU in 2007. The annual report – part of a ‘control and verification mechanism’ established because of concerns about Romania’s readiness for EU membership – has traditionally been published in mid-year, but the Commission brought forward this report because of the past summer’s political crisis.

One of the new government’s immediate tasks will be to negotiate a stand-by financing arrangement with the International Monetary Fund, to replace the current facility when it expires in April.

No white smoke from ETS conclave

Ministers end lunch discussions of backloading proposal with no signal of support.

Environment and energy ministers meeting in Dublin today (23 April) were unable to agree on any signal of support for the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) after it was dealt a potentially lethal blow by the European Parliament last week.

The ‘bridge’ lunch with 40 energy and environment ministers was the main venue for discussing the issue. Energy ministers will continue discussions on the sidelines of their meeting tomorrow, but no strong show of support is expected.

Investors in the carbon market, as well as environmentalists and energy companies, had hoped that a strong signal could revive the European Commission’s proposal to ‘backload’ allowances in the scheme in order to raise the flagging price of carbon. The proposal was rejected one week ago (16 April) by just 19 votes. It was referred back to the Parliament’s environment committee, which has two months to make changes and put the proposal to a vote again.

Yesterday morning, MEPs on the committee said only a signal of support from member states would enable the proposal to be put to another vote. A majority of member states support the proposal. But the political situation in Germany has prevented that government from taking a position. Without German support it is unlikely the proposal could pass.

German environment minister Peter Altmaier, from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party, supports the backloading proposal. But economy minister Philipp Roesler, from the CDU’s coalition partner FDP party, is adamantly opposed. With German elections coming up in September, it is thought Merkel does not want to risk causing a rift in the coalition, or angering heavy industry, which is against the proposal.

No quick fix

The parliament’s rejection of the proposal last week caused the carbon market to drop by its fastest rate ever, falling by over 40% to a record low of €2.46. The price of carbon in the emissions trading scheme was expected to be around €30 at this time. Analysts say that unless the price goes up, the ETS will not lower emissions or stimulate investment in green technology, and could actually incentivise investment in coal-fired power plants.

It was hoped last week that the risk of a complete collapse of the EU ETS would force the German government to come out with a statement of support for the proposal, despite the political difficulties. But Altmaier said yesterday that instead Germany will most likely wait until after a second parliament vote.

“We should use the two month delay we now have in the environment committee,” he said. “In the mean time, what we need is a public debate.”

Last week Irish environment minister Phil Hogan asked the Commission not to withdraw the proposal in response to the Parliament’s vote, noting that member states had not yet made their position known. This raised hope that a signal of support could be sent at the Dublin meeting. But yesterday Hogan said that the ball remains in the Parliament’s court.

“They have to act first,” he said. “The matter is for the European Parliament, not for the council at the moment.” He said the Council needed to give the Parliament space to make a decision.

Connie Hedegaard, European commissioner for climate action, said today that “it’s still early days for the European Parliament to digest their own vote.”

But members of the environment committee said a Council signal is needed before the Parliament can take a vote. “We need new dynamics in the council in order to make sure that the environment committee in the end can…put the position of the council back to the plenary and vote once more,” said Dutch Green MEP Bas Eikhout.

The proposal involves only a one-sentence addition to the existing ETS directive, which would give the Commission the ability to withhold allowances for a limited period of time. “What can the environment committee do?” asked Eickhout. “It’s a one line change. Finding a compromise there is difficult. We need other dynamics in the other institutions.”

Member states will continue discussing the issue in the coming weeks at working group level, and it is set to be an item on the agenda at the environment council in Brussels on 18 June. It may also be bumped up to heads of state level to be discussed at the European Council on 22 May, Altmaier said.

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Concern grows as ETS price hits record low

The price of carbon in the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) fell below five euros on Monday (21 January), its lowest level since the ETS was launched in 2005.

The drop prompted the European Commission to urge member states and MEPs to adopt its proposal for supporting the price.

When the ETS was designed, it was expected that the price of allowances, which companies must purchase in order to emit greenhouse gases, would be around €30. The dramatic decline is the result of reduced economic activity in the current crisis, combined with an overallocation of free allowances. As a short-term fix, the Commission has proposed postponing the auction of 900 million allowances, deferring the offer from the 2013-15 trading period to 2019-20.

But the proposal, made last July, has run into unexpected resistance from member states and MEPs reluctant to see the Commission taking powers to intervene in the market. The Parliament’s environment committee, which will debate the issue today (24 January), is thought to be evenly split on the issue.

Patchwork

Speaking on Tuesday (22 January) at a debate organised by CommentVisions, of which European Voice is a partner, Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate, warned that the ETS is at risk of collapse. “If you get a very low carbon price, or maybe no carbon price, then the alternative is a patchwork of 27 different systems,” she said. “We risk a nationalising of energy and climate policies.”

Karolina Ostrzyniewska, Poland’s deputy permanent representative, who was also on the panel, reiterated her country’s opposition to the ‘backloading’ proposal, claiming that the market is functioning properly. By contrast, Italy and France have signalled support for a postponement, leaving all eyes on the UK and Germany, which have not yet announced a position.

The German government is divided, with the environment minister, Peter Altmaier, in favour and the economy minister, Philipp Roesler, against. A regional election on Sunday (20 January) failed to clarify the situation, because although Roesler’s FDP party did better than expected, it still lost. A very poor showing by the FDP might have forced Roesler to resign, but this is now less probable.

Hedegaard had wanted approval by the end of 2012 for authorisation for Commission intervention. She warned that opponents “are toying with something very, very dangerous”. There is now concern in the Commission that the political difficulties encountered in the debate over a short-term fix could make later proposals for a long-term fix impossible.

Ahead of today’s debate, Green climate spokesperson Bas Eikhout said the ETS is now “at risk of total collapse”.

“Despite more than a year of dramatic warnings about the sinking carbon price in the emissions trading scheme, prevarication by EU policy makers has pushed the ETS to the brink,” he added.

The flying English attacker started the season in prolific form, but he is yet to find the net in 2020 amid form and fitness woes.

Pep Guardiola is confident Raheem Sterling will soon get back on the goal trail after a tough run of form at Manchester City.

England forward Sterling enjoyed a prolific start to the campaign that included hat-tricks against West Ham and Atalanta.

However, he is now scoreless in 12 matches, with the last of his 20 goals in all competitions coming when he netted a brace in a 3-2 Premier League defeat to Wolves in December.

More teams

A hamstring injury further compromised the 25-year-old and, although he produced a telling cameo from the bench in City’s 2-1 Champions League comeback win at Real Madrid last month, his trails in the opposition penalty area were again laid bare during Sunday’s 2-0 derby loss at Manchester United.

Nevertheless, much like goalkeeper Ederson – whose two mistakes led to United’s goals – manager Guardiola has no fears over Sterling’s levels of belief heading into Wednesday’s Premier League match against Arsenal.

“He’s incredibly positive, especially in the fact that when he misses one chance he tries again,” he said.

“He was injured for two or three weeks and sometimes you need a little bit more time, but he’s coming back.

“I never was so much worried about these kind of actions, like Ederson last time. It happens.

“These are the guys who suffer the most. When it happens they have been supported and we try to let them feel we are here for them.

“Sometimes you speak with them and sometimes you leave them free. They are so mature to understand what they have to do.”

City’s attack was unusually toothless in the Old Trafford derby, with a left-sided berth for Gabriel Jesus one option available to Guardiola in terms of freshening things up.

A centre-forward by trade, the Brazil international has played on the flank for his country and excelled out wide before scoring at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Deploying Jesus on the left of a front three could give Sterling a chance to freshen up on the right of City’s all-time top scorer Sergio Aguero, although the specific characteristics of opponents and the identity of his full-backs – Benjamin Mendy and Oleksandr Zinchenko offering very different interpretations of the left-back role – will also be factored into Guardiola’s thinking.

“I think Gabriel can adapt perfectly in that way, especially as he doesn’t play wide, wide wide,” he explained.

“He can play a little bit more inside like how Arsenal play with Aubameyang. Gabriel can play perfectly in that position and in the games he played he played really well.”

Leroy Sane, a specialist on the left wing, could make his long-awaited return from knee ligament surgery against Arsenal and Guardiola added: “Sometimes we need more specific winger in that position, it depends on the quality of our full-backs as well.

“To attack a defence with five players in the back and so deep, you have to make the pitch wide. If you don’t it is more difficult.”

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Tajani unveils plan to make entrepreneurship more attractive

Commission urges business education and friendlier tax policies.

The European Commission has urged member states to change their tax regimes to be more encouraging to small businesses. It said it would be identifying best practices across the EU that were conducive to “an entrepreneur-friendly fiscal environment”.

Launching an action plan for entrepreneurship yesterday (9 January), Antonio Tajani, the European commissioner for industry and entrepreneurship, said: “We want to make entrepreneurship an attractive and accessible prospect for European citizens. If we can unleash Europe’s entrepreneurial potential, we can bring back growth to Europe.”

He stressed the importance of tax regimes to small businesses.

Although the Commission does not have the power to legislate on national taxation, it will nevertheless invite member states to:

make tax administration more favourable to early-stage business;

promote cross-border taxco-ordination to minimise double taxation and other barriers to cross-border enterprise;

reassess corporate income tax regimes;

implement the option for small businesses of a cash accounting scheme for value-added tax;

allow owners of new businesses to ask for adjustments to their payment schedules for social security contributions.

The action plan stresses the importance of education in entrepreneurship in secondary schools. The Commission says that entrepreneurship should be identified as a key competence and included in the curricula of primary, secondary, vocational, higher and adult education before the end of 2015.

The action plan includes ideas to make entrepreneurship more attractive to women, elderly people, migrants and the unemployed. It also urges changes to rules on insolvency so as not to punish “honest failures”.

On the agenda

Tajani said he would be asking the Irish government, which has just taken on the presidency of the Council of Ministers, to put the action plan on the agenda of one of the meetings of the Competitiveness Council during its presidency.

The European association of chambers of commerce and industry, Eurochambres, welcomed the action plan, but said its diverse elements should not distract anyone from the main task of motivating and equipping young people to be entrepreneurs.

Arnaldo Abruzzini, the Eurochambres secretary-general, said: “Too many Europeans are reluctant entrepreneurs, not through some genetic characteristic, but because they have been conditioned to aspire to a ‘safe’ employment position. The Commission is right to emphasise that national education systems must promote entrepreneurship as an appealing and viable alternative.”

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* According to The Times, the government is on the brink of announcing that all English football games will be played behind closed doors. As part of those plans, pubs will not be permitted to broadcast games to avoid public gatherings of supporters.

Television companies could broadcast more games to subscribers – though not in the 3pm Saturday slot – while ticket holders for Premier League games will be able to stream their club’s games live.

Supporters of clubs in the Football League would be able to watch action from the lower tiers using iFollow streams.

* La Liga and the Spanish second division have been suspended for at least the next two weeks after a Real Madrid basketball player contracted the virus. Real’s basketball and football teams share many of the same facilities so all have been placed into 15 days of self-isolation. Games were initially scheduled to be played behind closed doors.

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* Italian football has been suspended indefinitely because of the very serious situation there.

* French Ligue Un football will be played behind closed doors until at least April 15.

* Every German Bundesliga game this weekend will be played behind closed doors.

* Of the eight Europa League ties on Thursday night, two have been cancelled (Sevilla v Roma and Inter v Getafe) and only one (Rangers v Leverkusen) will go ahead in front of fans.

* It is expected that UEFA will suspend Champions League and Europa League competitions as several teams are actually now under quarantine, including Juventus and Real Madrid.

* Juventus player Daniele Rugani has become the most high-profile footballer to test positive for coronavirus.

* Reuters are reporting that Brazil’s first two qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup have been postponed because of the coronavirus.

 

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Juventus have confirmed that Italy centre-back Daniele Rugani has tested positive for coronavirus.

The club say they are “activating all the isolation procedures required by law”, including those that have been in contact with Rugani.

The 25-year-old is “currently asymptomatic”.

Rugani has made just seven appearances for Juventus this season and was left on the bench for the 2-0 win over Inter behind closed doors on Sunday.

All sport in Italy is suspended until 3 April, with the country in lockdown because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Inter – whose Europa League clash with Getafe has been postponed – said “all competitive activities are suspended until further notice” following Rugani’s positive test.

They added: “The club is taking steps to prepare all necessary procedures.”

Here’s the full list of fixtures affected by coronavirus.

 

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Grande figure du XXe siècle, Jacques-Yves Cousteau a disparu en 1997, mais laissé derrière lui l’image d’un explorateur qui a popularisé le monde sous-marin. Un grand homme au bonnet rouge, dont une compagnie s’apprête à produire la vie sur grand écran, et en 3D.

Le projet semble ambitieux. Réaliser un biopic sur la vie de l’océanographe Jacques-Yves Cousteau, avec des séquences sous l’eau, et de surcroît en 3D… Mais c’est le pari que se sont lancés la compagnie Pan Européenne et le réalisateur Jérôme Salle (Largo Winch). Annoncé à l’occasion du marché du film à Cannes, ce projet bénéficiera d’un budget colossal de 37 millions de dollars (environ 30 millions d’euros).

Adapté du livre Capitaine de la Calypso, de l’explorateur Albert Falco, le film rendra hommage à celui que l’on surnommait «le Pacha». D’autant plus que Cousteau lui-même aimait le cinéma et avait pris la caméra pour réaliser avec

Le Monde Du Silence, grâce auquel ils ont remporté la Palme d’or à Cannes en 1956, et l’Oscar du meilleur documentaire la même année.

Et le commandant était un personnage à part entière, permettant par le biais de la télévision, de faire découvrir l’univers marin et la vie sous l’eau. D’ailleurs, cette année, le « technicien océanographique » aurait eu 100 ans. Pour lui rendre hommage, Ushuaïa TV lui dédiera tout une soirée demain à travers une programmation spéciale. Si «la transmission aux autres était essentielle pour lui», le 7e art (et qui plus est en 3D) permettra à Jacques-Yves Cousteau, d’ancrer un peu plus son combat dans nos mémoires, et de continuer à transmettre sa passion.

Mardi 18 mai 2010