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boycotts - Jerusalem - NGOs - settlements
Big Business : NGOs Strike Back !
In Jerusalem, a new tramway line has raised strong protests. Around the world, NGOs denounce a contract which violates international law.
cyber crime - Estonia - Internet - NATO
Cyberwar : The new global battlefield
Cyberwar: although it happens in a virtual space, its consequences are real. From now on, no need to use guns and bombs to disrupt a country; less noisy, cyberattack is just as efficient. So, how to face this new kind of war ?
energy - gas - Russia
European Energy : Ending The Russian Addiction
While Russia dominates in the production and distribution of natural gas, the EU is trying to look away from Moscow to diversify in terms of its energy security and be less dependent...
BEYOND BUSINESS
Stem Cells : Business at the Frontier of the Science
On top of main scientific stakes, embryonic stem cells research has also great economical outlets. But how French laboratories can compete with counterparts subjected to a legislation less restrictive ?
BEYOND BUSINESS
Fighting the trade war
In order to improve the competitiveness of french businesses and to protect them from disloyal methods of competitors, french government has mandated special experts.
BEYOND BUSINESS
Abu Dhabi-wood: Middle Eastern cinema
For some years now, Gulf countries have been investing heavily in the film industry. Why has the cinema become a strategic sector? What are their goals?
BEYOND BUSINESS
Scramble for Iraq's oil
Since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, the country's prime source of revenue, oil, stayed unexploited. A law on sharing revenue from oil has not yet come into force but foreign companies are already on the starting blocks in anticipation.
Intelligence économique
Agricultural cooperatives: the end of a model?
Have France's agricultural cooperatives lost their “raison d’être”? They have traditionally had tax breaks, but is that unfair competition?
BEYOND BUSINESS
High-speed competition on the railways
Next year international passenger rail services will be liberalized within the European Union. For the first time rail traffic between European countries will be opened to competition.
BEYOND BUSINESS
When advertisers become 'Big Brother'
Advertisers get closer everyday to consumers. They watch and even film you as you do your everyday shopping, in order to build up information on your consumer behaviour. Intrusion or marketing? The debate is open.
TERRORISM
Securing US ports: but at what cost?
Under a 2007 US law, all shipping containers bound for the United States must be searched for possible bombs. All the world's ports have until 2012 to comply or will be banned from shipping to the US. Critics say the project will be much too costly.
AVIATION
The battle of the skies
FRANCE 24 investigates what lies behind a confidential Airbus report which recently appeared on the Internet, containing detailed information about its American arch-rival Boeing.
BEYOND BUSINESS
'Let's Make Money', the dark side of globalization
This edition's special guest is film director Erwin Wagenhofer. His film, 'Let's Make Money', provides a chilling description of the world we live in - a world where bankers and investors exploit developing countries for their own profits.
BEYOND BUSINESS
The battle for the ocean floor
A veritable race for resources is currently heating up under the seas. At stake is the right to exploit what lies on the ocean floor - potentially invaluable sources of minerals and energy.
GULF STATES
Sports are the new oil
Tennis, football and other sports are becoming increasingly lucrative investments for businessmen in the Gulf countries who are seeing a drop in oil revenues.
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