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The damage is done. Although the cucumber is more pronounced as carrier of the bacterium E. Slayer coli (EHEC), the bill is very heavy for the French vegetable growers. Consumers stay still images as well as tomato salad and a time alleged by Germany.

"Nothing in a week, we estimate our losses to 3 million euros," said Friday afternoon at Figaro Angelique Delahaye, president of Vegetables in France. She just finished consolidating losses estimated at national level by some 3,000 growers of cucumbers and tomatoes. "We're going to report these figures in the service of the Ministry of Agriculture in the context of the experts meeting in Brussels next Tuesday," she says.

Half of the losses on the production of cucumbers and half the tomatoes."We lost earlier this week a program to supply 500 600 tons of tomatoes to 1.10 euro per kilo from the German central purchasing or 550,000 to 660,000 euros less," says Pierre Diot, president of the AOP (Association producer organization) cucumbers and tomatoes, producer Mordelles, west of Rennes.

Brittany produces half of the tomatoes of the Hexagon, 30% from the Deep South and the rest of the Nantes region. "After a week of total absence of trade in vegetables, we are angry because we have no alternative but to destroy our production," said Louis Vinet representing growers Nantes, tripling affected free business cards.

Salads down 20%

However, it is too early to assess damage on sales of salad, vegetable of which the French are especially fond of this heat – they consume nearly 7 pounds per year -."The production is spread among a multitude of gardening and it is more difficult to gather the numbers," says Angelique Delahaye.

The only certainty in Rungis, Ile de France, the second producing region of the Hexagon salads, "salads sold volumes dropped 20% in a dynamic market, however, except of course the cucumbers fall of 80%," says Michel Lemelin, president of the union of wholesale fruit and vegetable market of Rungis.

In this difficult context, French producers can always relativize their misfortune by saying that the situation is worse elsewhere. Particularly in the Iberian Peninsula. The Spanish Federation of Producers exporting fruits and vegetables (FEPEX) estimated losses on Tuesday "to about 200 million euros per week" for the entire sector, citing a "domino effect" affecting other Spanish products."All fruits and vegetables were impacted by Spain. Fortunately in France strawberries, zucchini, eggplant and continue to sell, "relativize Angelique Delahaye.

To break this cycle, the European Ministers of Agriculture are scheduled to meet around 17 June in Luxembourg for a special meeting on the subject.

The mere mention of his name thrills. The supermodel Adriana Karembeu confirms that it is also a business woman: she announced Thursday that his firm, AKD, is just steps away from joining the Paris Bourse. This is also an ambassador for the Red Cross has launched five years ago his company of cosmetics and spa hotels, including providing public relations in both France and Japan easy payday loans. Adriana Karembeu day before each presentation of the products of Silicium +, to bring the message of respect and healthy – its products are not tested on animals and contain no parabens – and the "consumer thinking, civic and qualitative.

Adriana Karembeu poses to promote her cosmetics.

The cold shower! Between January and March, the amount of money bet on sports online paris tumbled 26.5% in France compared to last quarter of 2010. According to the Regulatory Authority online games (Arjel), they accounted for 147 million euros for all 16 sites de paris sportifs allowed (BetClick, Bwin, PMU, … FdJ).

"This is a significant decrease, but this does not mean that athletes will put Paris down more than 20% this year, according to Jean-Francois Vilotte, president of the Arjel. The market just opened and we have no referent for the first quarter of 2010. We are attentive. It should not be the legal tender, for lack of attractiveness, the lead players trying to reconnect with the illegal sites. "

Football remains the supreme discipline of bettors

Several factors explain this lack of enthusiasm of the punters, starting with the sports calendar.There was no unifying event as a World Cup football, capable of boosting demand. Football remains the supreme discipline of punters, with 54% of stakes, to tennis (24%).

That said, the end of 2010 had not been richer in big tournaments. Operators are responsible for what happens to them. "To reconstruct a portion of their margins and respect the average rate of return to players imposed by law, they have degraded their ratings, making them less attractive to paris players," said Jean-Francois Vilotte. Indeed, if the bets were down 26.5% in the first quarter, gross gaming revenue has increased it to 33 million against 27 million last quarter of 2010. "Operators have underestimated the lack of culture in France paris sport and have not adapted their supply, said Jean-Francois Vilotte.Italian and English are long accustomed to paris sports, often to excess. But bet on Beckham's haircut is not necessary for sports! "

Missing operators

However, fans of horse racing and poker paris are themselves remained at the rendezvous. In the first quarter, the amount bet in paris horse has reached 241 million euros, in the last quarter 2010 and still much more than this summer. In poker, they are also stable at 1.9 billion euros, while the activity of tournaments grew another 4%, entry fees from 261 to 271 million in three months. One thing is sure, Jean-François Vilotte concluded: "Quite naturally, some sites will disappear or be absorbed." Already, Canalwin, a subsidiary of Canal + and Ladbrokes gave its approval.TF1 and prepares to throw the towel in Eurosportbet.

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It was expected that the two "small" U.S. operators Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile (subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom) have joined forces to resist the pressure of the two "big", Verizon Wireless and AT & T.Bombshell: the giant AT & T, the number two market heavyweight 95.5 million customers, who captured the number four, T-Mobile for $ 39 billion.

AT & T should thus take the place of leading U.S. mobile phone he had lost to Verizon in early 2009, posting 129 million subscribers and a turnover of $ 80 billion in Mobile after the merger .

If AT & T, formerly incumbent U.S. broke out in 1984 by the court to give birth to "Baby Bells", and finally restored, starts the mega acquisition is that it is itself threatened by the emergence of New players: Net giants Apple and Google.

Faced with the explosion of mobile Internet created the success of smartphones, iPhone in mind, the telcos are obliged to invest massively scale their networks, but does not affect revenues. AT & T was the exclusive distributor of iPhone in the United States from 2007 to February 2011 made the bitter experience: back to the boom in mobile internet traffic, its congested networks had broken down in cities like San Francisco and New York, then being told the boss of AT & T that the iPhone was his "worst nightmare".Traffic on the network of AT & T has increased 8000% in four years and by 2015 it should be 8-10 times higher than in 2010.

"The race to size"

"The problem of operators today is to be paid for the huge investments they are forced to make their networks to support the explosion of data traffic," said Virginia Lazès, associate director of the bank Bryan Garnier. The answer is the race for size. It can rebalance their magnifying powers face the giants of the Net. On the one hand, with 130 million customers, AT & T will carry more weight in discussions with Apple, which often resemble a standoff.On the other hand, being larger, its business model becomes more relevant because it can generate synergies in investment and marketing. "

To address this bottleneck networks, AT & T has begun the deployment of 4th generation network (known as LTE). The acquisition of T-Mobile will save him time. "With additional capacity and frequency network, we can better meet the current requirements of our customers, build for the future and help achieve the objective of the President (Barack Obama) America connected a wireless and high- flow, "commented the CEO of AT & T, Randall Stephenson.

"The regulator should not oppose the FCC not to this level because there is a political will to accelerate the transition to 4G mobile broadband.The United States would indeed catch up in 2G/3G mobile compared to Asia and Europe, "said Stéphane Dubreuil, associate director of the firm Sia Council. A reverse pattern of France, where the regulator has pushed early 2012 arrival of a fourth operator, with Free? Do not forget that the U.S. has a plethora of regional operators (Alltel, TracFone, U.S. Cellular, MetroPCS, Cricket, Jump Mobile, Dobson Cellular, etc.). "In fact, the U.S. market was ultraconcurrentiel returns to normal and the French market was oligopolistic becomes competitive," says Virginia Lazès.

Reconciliations between stock markets around the world do not seem ready to stop. After the marriage of places in London and Toronto, followed closely by the Frankfurt Stock Exchange with Euronext, the head of the New York Stock Exchange, the Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Lisbon announced an alliance with the place Toronto TSE.

This new service aims to enable customers of both companies to exchange on both platforms. The CEO of NYSE Euronext, Duncan Niederauer, and the CEO of Tokyo Stock Exchange, Atsushi Saito signed a "letter of intent to identify opportunities that would provide customers of each exchange access markets to the other through a link between networks. "

Thus, the number one fellow said that "customers of both exchanges would benefit from this network to convert multi-format orders that they pass and avoid a costly development work." The Japanese operator, he believes that the partnership "will provide investors from Europe and the United States more opportunities to invest in Asia."

Alliances between stock exchanges are explained by a desire to be more competitive. Incumbents have recently lost market share against new platforms stock alternatives like Chi-X or BATS, emerged following the new rules to liberalize markets. Yet as the barometer Equinox Consulting La Tribune published on Wednesday the costs of negotiations all markets for orders from institutional investors declined only 5% since the new law.

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And if the Renault spy case was based on a simple internal settling of scores? Having missed so far, this track is not ruled according to a source close to the investigation quoted by Le Parisien on Saturday.

She says an employee of Renault 'close' to Michel Balthazar, former head of the division "upstream projects and services" of the company and laid off in January with two other executives, Matthieu Tenenbaum Rochette and Bertrand, was the author of the famous anonymous letter sent in late August at the direction of Renault.

"In May this year, I saw Michael Balthazard negotiate a jar of wine, claiming that if Bob Bell took advantage of F1, also wanted to enjoy it and feed his bank account," says the author literally. Without the quote, it also aims Matthew Tenenbaum."During another conversation, he (Michel Balthazar, Ed) spoke of a young man (Matthew Tenenbaum, Ed) which quickly understood how it works to fill his bank account," he adds.

Renault has made "mistakes"

Recognizing not have "no evidence", the "Raven" was threatening the management of Renault. "Without checking action on your part, I would not hesitate in a few weeks to send the letter to the press creditreport." But according to RTL radio, which obtained one of the anonymous letters, the document aimed Michel Balthazard contains "no details or overwhelming potential to advance the investigation."

Anyway, the contents of this letter plot."Who else but a close security service may Renault whether audits will be conducted?" Asks Maitre Thibault de Montbrial, lawyer Matthew Tenenbaum.

The Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI), responsible for investigating this matter, and would guide his research on the environment "very close" to Michel Balthazard. A dozen people are suspected by investigators.

For its part, Renault, however, convinced he has been betrayed by three executives who allegedly leaked confidential information, now acknowledges having made "mistakes." And if the automaker had wrongfully dismissed three executives on false accusations from a "raven" still an employee of the group? This would then no longer one but two crises that the automaker should be managed.

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In Barcelona at Mobile World Congress, Nokia-Microsoft agreement is central to the questions. Stephen Elop responds.

LE FIGARO. – Google has criticized the alliance with Microsoft, saying that the marriage of "two turkeys never created an eagle?

Stephen Elop. – Our two groups have complementary products and a balanced portfolio of assets. Together, we have great facilities, well-finished products and strong brands in operating systems for mobile phones. It's the same in services with a side maps, location services and guidance on the other search engines, the range of services for the Xbox game console and productivity tools.Overall, we need the full range.

Why not have chosen Google's Android?

We would have encouraged the emergence of a duopoly in smartphones, with a side of Apple and Google each other. For in recent years, Apple has been between 15% and 20% of the market and Android between 60% and 70%. That would have recalled the development for the PC industry, where margins of manufacturers have become weak. An alliance with Google would have been detrimental, ultimately, to our ecosystem.

What is the financial part of the agreement with Microsoft?

On the one hand, we will buy Microsoft's Windows operating system Phone for our future smartphones. This allows us to reduce our investment in research and development. We will reduce our operational expenses. On the other, Microsoft will give us a lot of cash. This amount is counted in billions of dollars.We can increase our marketing efforts and our search for the next generation of products.

Your competitors are paying 10 to 15 dollars a Windows Phone 7. How much will you pay?

We are the leading manufacturer of mobile phones in the world. So we got an attractive price.

Will you continue to use Symbian OS for Nokia smartphones for entry-level?

We intend to use Windows phone in as many products as possible. In India, where a mobile phone costs $ 3 to purchase, we will also have a proposal for a Windows phone. In addition, we have our own solutions which will benefit from our investments

Why did Nokia shares fell on the announcement of the alliance with Microsoft?

We created a lot of ambiguities and uncertainties for investors personal loan for poor credit.How long the transition period going to last? What will happen pending the release of our first products on Windows 7 Phone this year? In addition, we have announced substantial job cuts, without specifying the number, because we must provide these answers to the staff before the unveiling. All these issues have caused uncertainty.

What do you want to change the culture of Nokia?

Change the way we work. First, division heads will be responsible for the results of their activities and bureaucracy will be abolished. Now, Jo Harlow, for example, is responsible for the results of the division of smartphones. This was not the case before. The heads of subsidiaries have more power without needing to refer all the time in Finland. We want to improve the elements of the corporate culture.The company was too slow in its decision making. We must think with more humility. We deliver more and more mobile phones, but the market situation is changing very fast. We must be more humble in our decision making and how to talk to our customers

What is your involvement in the Internet Tablet?

We MeeGo operating system, designed with Intel, which was adopted by a German partner for an Internet tablet. Mobile World Congress, other companies should announce. For Nokia, we have multiple options. We can take advantage of our agreement with Microsoft or operate our own operating systems.With MeeGo, we could see the emergence of other products such as GPS navigation devices.

How many do you have Microsoft stock?

I had a substantial stake in Microsoft, because of my former office. During the thirty days following my departure, I did not have the right to sell those shares, for regulatory reasons. Then, once I was right, I initiated a sales program. I achieved 60% of the shares I own. But as soon as we started discussions with Microsoft, I stopped the sale because I own proprietary information, unknown to investors.

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After walking along the peaks on Tuesday, the ACC 40reprenait his breath yesterday. And the consolidation continues on Thursday in a context of extreme caution. At the close, the CAC 40 dropping 0.74% to 4 036.59 points. Even in England where the mood Footsie loses 0.28% to 5983.34 points. In contrast, the German Dax stands out by showing an increase of 0.14% to 7193.68 points, the good news for companies taking precedence over concerns about Egypt.

Wall Street opened disorganized Thursday.

Fears escalate the situation in Egypt resurface when violent clashes between pro and anti-Mubarak, in Cairo, have already killed three people and wounded hundreds.

ECB: "interest rates are appropriate"

They keep an eye still on macroeconomic indicators of the day.On this side, a busy day with:

– In France, growth in activity in the services sector accelerated further in January to its highest level in four months and now exceeds the average long-term, final results showed Thursday in the monthly survey with Markit purchasing managers.

– In the euro area, also growth in the services sector accelerated at a faster pace than expected in January, according to data released Thursday, but these figures do not reflect persistent differences between member countries.Also note, always eurozone retail sales decreased 0.6% in December compared to the previous month after falling 0.3% in November, according to data released Thursday by the EU statistics office Eurostat.

– European Central Bank has not surprisingly left its rates unchanged Thursday, but investors are alert to any indication of the ECB said it is prepared to act to contain consumer prices in view of inflationary pressures.

– United States: New jobless claims fell more than expected, when 415,000 applications for grants were submitted from January 23 to 29, according to official figures released Thursday.

Business productivity rose 3.6% in 2010, after rising 3.5% in 2009, according to official figures released Thursday in Washington and testifying to the fact that economic recovery has not led to genuine recovery employment.

Note that the side of the oil, oil prices continue to surge. In London, the price per barrel for the month of March gained $ 1 Low fee payday loans.03 to 103.37 dollars, its highest level since September 2008. Brent has broken the technical resistance of 102 dollars.

Values to follow

Bonduelle: -2.26% to 68.42 euros

The food group on Thursday posted a turnover up 16.4% to 884.6 million euros in the first half of fiscal year 2010-2011 (ended June). But exchange rates and constant perimeter, growth is reduced to 1.6%, according to a news group.The group also confirmed its objectives for 2010-2011: a 30% drop in operating profit for the full year.

Hermes: -0.70% to 149.15 euros

The luxury giant has reported a very strong organic growth in the fourth quarter, boosted by sales of Christmas and has said it expects an increase of over 40% of its annual profit before tax.

France Telecom: + 0.64% to 16.52 euros, Bouygues: -0.56% to 33.62 euros, Vivendi: -0.66% to 21.10 euros

Orange, Bouygues and SFR join forces to Atos to create a joint company called Buyst to provide a platform for e-payment before the summer, reports the newspaper Les Echos.

Societe Generale: -2.30% to 46.85 euros

The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it had accepted the bank in the small circle of investment banks and brokerage firms allowed to operate in the primary market.

NRJ: + 2.25% to 8.65 euros

The group reported a turnover in excess of expectations for all of 2010, boosted by renewed investment in advertising and dynamism of DTT channels.

Vicat: -0.73% to 56.81 euros

The group anticipates a recovery in 2011 sales volumes in France, its largest market, after a year 2010 saw stabilization and further internationalization of the business.

Bolloré: + 0.12% to € 161.50

The group announced the acquisition by its energy division of the remaining 49% stake in LCN (Les Combustibles de Normandie).

Partouche: -4.12% to 2.33 euros

The group announced Wednesday the launch of a new capital increase of EUR 30 million, guaranteed by Butler Capital Partners (BCP), during which the private equity firm will enter the capital of the casino group.

Maurel & Prom published its annual results after market close.

Coffee, maize and soya upwards

As for agricultural commodities, time was up last week. Even the records. Cereals have touched the highest since 2008 in Chicago. At issue: the release of highly anticipated monthly report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which has troubled investors. The latter has in fact lowered its estimates of world production of corn for the 2010/2011 season to 816 million tonnes. While demand is increasing, driven by ethanol production, U.S. stocks have been drastically scaled down to only 18.92 million tonnes. The contract maturing in March corn finished at $ 6.50 Friday, against $ 5.95 last week. Highest level since July 2008.

For soybeans, the USDA also lowered its forecast for U.S. production at 90.61 million tonnes.Export forecasts remain them unchanged, causing the final stock in the United States to below 4 million tonnes to 3.82. According to analysts, this low level should take the course up until the next USDA report in February. Meanwhile, a bushel of soybeans for March delivery was worth 14.09 dollars on Friday after reaching U.S. $ 14.3250 Thursday new level since 2008.

For wheat, however, global stocks have been revised upwards to 177.99 million tonnes. A bushel of wheat for March delivery ended the week down to 7.6225 dollars.

Arabica is also increased to its highest level in 13 years in New York at 244.50 cents a pound while robusta touched the 2185 dollars in London, the highest since 2008. According to the International Coffee Organization, "Market fundamentals continue to be favorable at high prices."Moreover, "the capricious climate affects crop production and transportation in exporting countries, and disrupts the supply of coffee in the short term," in a context where "demand remains strong, particularly in emerging markets," explains organization.

Cocoa is also mounted last week. The market remains very volatile, so that no solution to the Ivorian political crisis is found. In London, a tonne of cocoa for March delivery ended at 2003 pounds Fridays (4.16% in five days) while in New York, the contract for delivery to the same term ended in 3045 dollars (7, 52% on the week).

Brent crude rises $ 99

Week oil has also been marked by the rise. Main cause of higher prices: the closure of a pipeline in Alaska.1200 km long and connects the North Slope oil region, bordering the Arctic to the southern coast of Alaska, the Trans Alaska pipeline carries between 630,000 and 650,000 barrels of crude per day. This represents over 10% of U.S. production and an important source of supply for the West Coast of the United States. Its closure was decided after the discovery of a leak in a pumping station.

In New York, a barrel of benchmark for February delivery chained three consecutive sessions of gains, boosting its price to 89.25 dollars on Monday to 91.86 dollars on Wednesday. In London, the movement was even more pronounced. Brent for the same period hit its highest level since October 1, 2008 to 98.85 dollars on Wednesday.

Thursday was a day of consolidation, but as of Friday, prices are starting to rebound, persistent uncertainty about the status of the pipeline."The supply is plentiful in the U.S., this is not a problem unless it lasts a month, said Matt Smith of Summit Energy. But as the situation is clearer, prices incorporate this factor. " Analysts at Commerzbank confirms: "The disruption in production and supplies are regarded as the reason for rising prices." On the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), a barrel of light sweet crude for February delivery ended the week at 91.54 dollars. For its part, the barrel traded in London climbed to 99.20 dollars in session, before closing at 98.65 dollars. "If Brent were to cross the $ 100 a barrel Texan should try to reach new heights," says Rich Ilczyszyn, Lind-Waldock.

Base metals take a breather

On the London Metal Exchange (LME), the week has been more dispersed.After starting the year off with a bang, investors take a breather. What wonder if the rise earlier this year was not only due to bargain hunting, according to observers. In addition, purchases have been penalized by the rise of the dollar earlier in the week.

Copper failed to beat his own record (9754 dollars) and was quoted at 9640 dollars Friday. Nickel fell to 25,747 dollars per tonne, not without having touched a highest since May 2010 to 25,999 dollars, driven by fears about the situation in Australia. Same downward trend for tin (26,750 dollars) which is also mounted to its highest since last November after Indonesia announced a drop in exports due to flooding.Aluminium fell to 2470 dollars despite the fact that Rio Tinto, the third largest exporter, has declared force majeure on one of its largest smelter in Australia.

Most optimistic operators let go gold

Gold was, in turn, affected by renewed optimism on the part of investors. They have enjoyed the successes of three major bond issues of the moment: Portugal, Spain and Italy. The record growth in Germany in December has been added to this positive picture on the economic situation in the euro area. The gold as a safe haven was no longer the priority of operators. Even the dollar's decline has not been enough to halt the downtrend. On the London Bullion Market, gold price ended Friday at 1367 dollars.

As always, gold has led the money in his wake.The latter fell to its lowest level since early December (28.02 dollars per ounce) before laboriously recover. He finished at 28.27 dollars.

A trend-cons, PGMs rose sharply, driven by tensions on supply due to power cuts in South African mines. Platinum rose to its highest since last July (1,829.50 dollars) and palladium has surpassed the $ 800 for the first time in 10 years. On the London Platinum and Palladium Market, they finish the week respectively to 1811 dollars and 795 dollars an ounce.

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All Tunisian airports are reopened to air traffic, said Saturday the Tunisian Civil Aviation in a statement. The closure of the airspace was announced Friday by an airport source when former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was preparing to flee the country.

"The Tunisian airspace and national airports are open to air traffic," said the agency in a statement released by the official news agency TAP.

Defer non-urgent travel

The office has however urged travelers to check with airlines to avoid clutter which would be linked to the cancellation or delay of flights. On Friday, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommended "strongly" to "defer all travel which would not urgent" flights to Tunisia.In the process, tour operators have suspended all departures of customers bound for this country. The Crisis in place working to provide increased security for tourists staying in hotels and organize customer feedback. About 8,000 French currently staying in Tunisia, as the Secretary of State for Tourism.

The CETO (Association of Tour Operators) also advised to suspend departures to Tunisia until Monday included because of "recent developments of the situation" in the country. The president of the organization Rene-Marc Chikli, said Saturday that the return of French tourists on holiday in Tunisia will be possible once this weekend, but it will take several days because of constraints related to lack of aircraft and curfew imposed in the country. This applies to 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 am."Flights that were in the lineup for the weekend returns are kept on Monastir and Djerba, but it's more complicated to Tunis," he said.

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The skipper of Ceto, nevertheless reaffirmed that customers were "safe in the hotels." There is no panic in hotels, "said Jean-Marc Roze, General Secretary of National Union of Travel Agencies (SNAV), where a crisis has been activated. Since the beginning of events Tunisia, vacationers "are well and no incidents were reported," he said Saturday. At Thomas Cook France, "25 people are involved in the company's headquarters to find aircraft, crew, contact our travel agency, be responsive relationship with all our Tunisia, our staff at airports and the company Insurance pay day loans…».Among major operators, accounted Marmara 790 customers in Tunisia, and Thomas Cook France 700 New Frontiers 200. Fram in 1600 totaled between short and long stays.

For customers whose flights have been suspended, proposed deferral of travel, without charge, at a later date on Tunisia or wherever have been rapidly advanced by tour operators. The events in Tunisia under the case of "force majeure", professionals find themselves "freed from their traditional obligations to people traveling or refund if there is a change," told AFP Me Emmanuelle Llop, lawyer. "They do not offer refunds spontaneously because they do not always this possibility, including travel agents who have more funds," she says.Some operators, however, offer refunds or assets.

Special flights

German tourists were repatriated on Saturday, said tour operators across the Rhine. The TUI provides for departures from Monastir and Djerba. Buses are currently en route to the hotels where the guests stay for transfer to the airport. In addition to flights normally scheduled for this Saturday, special flights operated by airlines German TUIfly and Nouvelair Tunisia, should be established. They repatriate tourists to Hannover, Frankfurt, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart, said the spokesman. TUI decided to cancel all his trips to Tunisia until 24 January inclusive.

The tour operator Thomas Cook expects to repatriate this Saturday's 1800 holiday still in Tunisia.They spent a quiet night in their hotel in Monastir and Djerba, said a spokesman, Mathias Brandes. Some 230 holidaymakers had been evacuated Friday night in Dusseldorf, Berlin and Vienna, as the 100% subsidiary of the British group of the same name. Thomas Cook has canceled all its trips to Tunisia until Monday. The Tunis-Frankfurt Lufthansa flight scheduled this Saturday has been canceled.

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