Le Monaco World Summit se tient jeudi et vendredi 26 et 27 avril au Sporting d'Hiver de la Principauté sur le thème du crime économique et de la criminalité transnationale organisée. Deux intervenants vedettes : le juge Eric Halphen, qui fait actuellement la "Une" de l'actualité avec l'affaire des HLM de Paris et la mise en cause du Président de la République; Michel Hunault, rapporteur de la loi sur le blanchiment de l'argent sale.
The municipal council of Cannes has resumed the deliberation dated from last June, just before the hot season, a deliberation which allowed the transfer of Carlton Club games to the Palm Beach (both buildings belong to the Partouche group). As well, the council allotted 200 slot machines to the Palm Beach (that is to say they have increased fourfold the number of slot machines as the Carlton has only 50 machines).
During inquiries about Russian real estate investments on the French Riviera, Boris Eltsine's daughter was often mentioned as the one who bought the Garoupe castle at the Antibes cape. The "Paris Match" magazine brings a new element in that sense by announcing that Boris Eltsine, the former president of the Russian Federation, would be soon at the Garoupe castle and that men were already at the castle in order to prepare the arrival of their boss.
Set up in collaboration with the Foundation of Sophia Antipolis, the club Sophia UK has been officially launched on Tuesday April 24th at Newcastle Upon Tyne. Located in the north east of Great Britain, it benefits from a high mobilization of resources and energy for the development of sectors based on knowledge. This new club is highly linked to the French Riviera research park. The leaders have already participated many times to the meetings of the Sophia Start-up association.
The news has been known all over France. It is true that the senior of instruction judges in Grasse has been very severe : he has decided to remand on custody the driver responsible for a serious traffic accident while she was phoning with her mobile phone. The accident occurred in Antibes, at the quatre chemins crossroads, late last week. An employee of Antibes city hall, who was driving her car, was called on her mobile phone.
"The Sophia Antipolis sun is not enough to attract young talents" : that is the title of an article of Le Monde newspaper, about the difficulty to recruit in the first European research park. Bruno Aubry, the regional correspondent of the daily, has focused on Amadeus, on the association of the Telecom Valley, on the Sophia Antipolis Foundation, on Sophianet.com, on AG Consulting.
The little war that happened early 1999 about the opening of supermarkets on Sunday morning has been revived in Cannes La Bocca. It stopped with the prefect order of March 22nd 1999 which, after having consulted several supermarket union organisations, forbade to open on Sunday. But, the debate has been revived by the order made late January by the Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence. This jurisdiction contested the validity of the prefect order because all involved union organisations did not give their agreement to the closure demand.
The international film festival has chosen its president with the movie director Luc Besson. The other film festival in Cannes, the international advertising film, has also chosen the presidents of its jury. For the 47th Lions that will take place at the palais des festivals in Cannes from June 19th to 24th 2000, three presidents have been nominated. For films and posters, the main category, a highest level creative person has been chosen.
The direction team of the festival de Cannes is in turmoil. Although the succession of president Viot should happen without any problems after the Festival 2000, as Gilles Jacob, the general delegate should take the presidency, it is not the case for the general delegate position. This is still a strategic position : the general delegate of the Festival is in charge of selecting movies. To takeover Gilles Jacob, a successor seemed designated.
The Bernard Chevry Editions company (BC Editions) which was in bankruptcy filling has been bought out by the Textuel company, for an amount which would be up to 10 million francs. Bernard Chevry is the father of great communication congresses in Cannes (Midem, then the MIP). He created the Midem Organisation company, which was sold out to the Reed group in the end of the eighties. Then, Bernard Chevry has launched himself in the publishing industry. BC Editions, rose with the Air Inter "Parcours" magazine.
In expansion for three years, Dufour yachts, the manufacturer of sailboats and motor boats, is strongly settled on the French Riviera. Thus, last week, the company has inaugurated its new nautical base for the French Riviera, at the Port Gallice in Juan-les-Pins. This base has been set up at the place where a shipyard bought out last year. Dufour, traditionally very present in the Atlantic, had already a powerful site in le Var, in Pin Rolland (premises of 3.000 m2). With the Port Gallice base, it confirms the ambitions in the Mediterranean sea.
One of the "affairs" in Nice which has been widely talked about which has been discretely concluded : the sale of "Lou Soubran", the Jacques Médecin's villa. Michel Charasse, who was secretary of the Treasury seized it in September 1992 in order to pay back the fiscal debt of the former mayor of Nice.
