Alors qu’elle fait ses débuts devant la caméra de Bruno Podalydès avec “Adieu Berthe ou l’enterrement de mémé”, Valérie Lemercier revient sur les premières fois marquantes de sa carrière…

A l’affiche d’Adieu Berthe ou l’enterrement de mémé, la comédie de Bruno Podalydès sortie le 20 juin, Valérie Lemercier revient sur les premières fois marquantes de sa carrière, de Palace aux Visiteurs en passant par les Césars…

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The European Commission has brought forward an urgent review of the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) and will report its recommendations in July (“Commission prepares to intervene in carbon market”, 16-22 May). Good news indeed, since the current situation is so far removed from the original expectation that there is a clear case for action. The key question, however, is this: what action will it take?

To answer this, the Commission’s review must clarify once and for all the objectives of the ETS and use this opportunity to ensure the long-term confidence (and revenues) of investors. Is it intended purely as a mechanism to deliver emissions-reduction targets efficiently or should it also support low-carbon investment and strategy?

The EU economy needs investment. In particular, the energy sector requires hundreds of billions of euros of private capital channelled into long-lived assets, which must meet Europe’s strategic needs for long-term energy and climate security. High-carbon investment carries inescapable, science-driven risks, but industry, having witnessed successive collapses of the carbon price, also lacks confidence in low-carbon investment. This is combined with (and reinforced by) the deeply uncertain economic outlook.

The Commission review must address the scheme’s credibility issues with potential investors. This will not be resolved, and could arguably be made worse, by intervention purely to ‘set aside’ allowances, without also increasing the ETS’s robustness to future shocks. Reform would need to introduce a mechanism that gives confidence that carbon prices will rise, and preclude the need for any further ad-hoc interventions. This could also restore and stabilise the revenues of €150 billion-€200bn originally expected over the rest of the decade.

The main options are well known. The question is whether the recommendations emerging out of the current debate will result in a piecemeal fix or a more systematic reform to ensure the ETS’s robustness and relevance to investment in an uncertain world. If the EU’s decision-makers are serious about getting the European economy back on track by focusing on growth and investment, while also reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, the answer is clear. The EU ETS review gives them an historic opportunity to boost investor confidence and attract badly needed capital into the European energy sector.

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Michel Colombier

Scientific director, Institut du developpement durable et des relation

MEPs will debate on Monday (12 March) whether the European Commission should propose legislation to oblige listed companies to increase the number of women directors

Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, will take part in the debate in Strasbourg, which will also cover gender equality more generally.

Reding launched a public consultation on Monday (5 March) after presenting a report suggesting that self-regulation was not working and that companies had made only “limited progress” over the past year in increasing the number of women directors.

The European Parliament called last summer for Reding to propose binding quotas, and many MEPs want her to move forward with legislation straight away.

Sophie in ’t Veld, a Dutch Liberal MEP who drafted one of the Parliament’s reports on the issue, said that the Commission had to speed up its work. “The time for reports is over,” she said. “Now is the time for action.”

Reding’s progress report, which came a year after she called for “credible” self-regulatory measures, showed that 13.7% of board members in Europe’s biggest 600 companies were women in 2011, a slight increase from 11.8% in 2010. The commissioner said that at the current rate it would take 40 years to reach the target of at least 40%.

Only 24 companies had signed up to Reding’s ‘Woman on the Board Pledge’ committing themselves to having women making up at least 30% of the board membership by 2015 and 40% by 2020.

The Commission’s public consultation will run until 28 May, after which Reding will decide whether to propose legislation.

‘Patronising’ move

Helena Morrissey, the founder of the 30% Club aimed at encouraging companies to voluntarily increase their number of women directors, said binding quotas would be “patronising” to women.

“While we applaud any move to encourage greater female representation at an executive level, we believe mandatory quotas are both unnecessary and potentially damaging,” she said.

BusinessEurope, which represents employers’ groups from 35 countries, has also said that it opposes legislation.

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Foudroyée par infarctus, a été enterrée jeudi 24 décembre au cimetière Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Lolita connue pour ses rôles dans 8 Mile et Pour le Meilleur et Pour le Pire, l’actrice américaine Brittany Murphy a été inhumée jeudi dans au cimetière des stars de Hollywood. Ses funérailles se sont déroulées au cours d’une cérémonie privéeà Los Angeles, au Forest Lawn Memorial Park, a annoncé un porte-parole de la famille.

Joli brin de fille aux yeux pétillants, à la frimousse mutine et la silhouette parfaite, l’actrice américaine est décédée d’une crise cardiaque. La belle avait 32 ans, un mari attentionné, Simon Monjack (scénariste de Factory Girl) et une carrière prometteuse. Heureuse et amoureuse, la blondinette rêvait de pouponner.

Pourtant, dimanche 20 décembre, les secours ont retrouvé Brittany Murphy, inconsciente, terrassée sous sa douche, noyée dans son vomi. Son cœur, affaibli, n’a pas résisté. Transportée inanimée au Cedars-Sinaï de Beverly-Hills, Brittany a été déclarée morte à son arrivée. «Aucune enquête criminelle n’est envisagée», a déclaré un porte-parole de la police. «Pas une trace de drogue ou d’amphétamine n’a été découverte à son domicile», a-t-il poursuivi.

L’autopsie du corps de la jeune femme n’a révélé aucun «traumatisme» particulier. Cependant, les causes exactes de la mort ne seront pas connues avant «quatre à six semaines», le temps d’effectuer des analyses toxicologiques, selon l’institut médico-légal de Los Angeles.

Grippe A? Narcodépendance? Ravages de l’anorexie? Dépression?…Si les premières analyses de la dépouille confirment une «mort naturelle», la presse US fantasme sur la thèse de l’overdose.

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Sur le tournage de Mr & Mrs Smith, en 2004, l’histoire d’un couple de tueurs dont chaque membre ignore tout des activités de l’autre. Brad Pitt niera toujours avoir trompé son épouse, Jennifer Aniston, avec Angelina, mais le beau gosse d’Hollywood n’a pas mis longtemps à craquer pour la brune tatouée.

Entre le mâle le plus convoité d’Hollywood et la sublime Lara Croft, c’est le coup de foudre: le couple à l’écran devient couple à la ville, le plus glamour et le fascinant au monde.

Brad Pitt est vite acquis aux nombreuses causes défendues par Angelina Jolie. Ici en Haïti, où ils soutiennent le combat du chanteur Wyclef Jean. Lors du récent tremblement de terre, la pasionaria et son compagnon seront les premiers à s’engager auprès des victimes.

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L’ambassadrice de l’UNHCR et son nouvel amoureux passent leur premier Noël « officiel » au Costa Rica, avec des réfugiés colombiens. Le décor est planté.

Famille heureuse! Au Festival de Venise, en septembre 2007, où Brad Pitt présente L’Assassinat de Jesse James, les Brangelina viennent avec leurs enfants sous le bras. Deux ans d’amour, et les toutereaux ont déjà adopté Zahara, Pax Thien, et donné naissance à Shiloh Nouvel, qui viennent agrandir la famille qu’ils formaient déjà avec Maddox, le fils adoptif d’Angie, dont Brad est également devenu le père.

A Cannes, en mai 2007, Brad et Angelina offrent l’image d’un couple radieux sur le red carpet. Madame présente Un Coeur Invaincu, dans lequel elle incarne l’épouse du journaliste Daniel Pearl, Marianne.

Moins de quatre mois après avoir accouché de Knox et Vivienne, leurs jumeaux, Angelina promène de nouveau sa silhouette de rêve à travers le monde. Ici à New York, début octobre.

Angelina Jolie escortée par Brad à la première de Kung Fu Panda, où elle prête sa voix à l’un des personnages: elle accouchera moins de deux mois plus tard de jumeaux…

Leur petite Shiloh, née en mai, est encore trop petite pour parcourir le monde avec eux. Brad et Angelina en Inde avec Zahara et Maddox, l’aîné de leurs rejetons.

Janvier 2009: à Tokyo, où Brad Pitt vient présenter L’Etrange Histoire de Benjamin Button, les Brangelina débarquent en famille: première sortie publique pour Knox et Vivienne, en kangourou sur leurs parents et entourés par leurs frères et soeurs.

Un peu plus tard, sur le tapis rouge, Brad et Angelina font les pitres: un cliché plutôt rare des amoureux d’Hollywood…

Brad Pitt, excellent dans le rôle du lieutenant Aldo Raine, est la star US du casting de choc réuni par Tarantino pour Inglorious Basterds: pendant que Mélanie Laurent, Diane Kruger et leur réalisateur s’éclatent sur le red carpet, Brad et Angelina s’attachent à donner une image du bonheur conjugal retrouvé. Car les rumeurs courent déjà…

En octobre dernier, Brad Pitt accompagne de nouveau Angelina lors d’un déplacement en Syrie: tous deux vont à la rencontre des réfugiés irakiens.

Avec Angelina, c’est du sérieux, aurait pu lancer Brad Pitt à Jennifer Aniston, en la larguant il y a des années pour Lara Croft. Et de fait: pour la sulfureuse brune, l’ex-mari de la jolie Friend s’est transformé en super papa de six bambins (dont trois de lui éclos en moins de deux ans, tout de même) et il a réussi à concilier sa famille nombreuse avec une carrière sans faute doublée d’engagements humanitaires tous azimuts. Brad Pitt sans Angie, c’est un peu Hollywood sans ses étoiles, un tajine sans olives ou une raquette sans la balle: ces deux-là forment une sorte de duo parfait et inébranlable, en apparence, qui allie la richesse, la beauté, la sensibilité, la générosité et le glamour. Et comme on ne sait pas combien de temps cela peut encore durer, Gala.fr vous propose de vous replonger dans l’album-photo des Brangelina, qu’il convient de sous-titrer: «Cinq ans d’amour».

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Un film d’animation en chasse un autre à la tête du box-office nord-américain. Pour sa première semaine d’exploitation, “Rebelle” prend en effet la place de “Madagascar 3, bons baisers d’Europe” avec 66 739 000 dollars de recettes.

Rebelle détrône Madagascar 3, bons baisers d’Europe à la tête du box-office nord-américain. Cette nouveauté des studios Pixar qui s’essaient pour la première fois au film de princesse récolte dès sa sortie 66,7 millions de dollars de recettes, tandis que la production Dreamworks enregistre une baisse de fréquentation de 40,7% (20,2 millions ce week-end et 157,6 millions en trois semaines d’exploitation). Avec une telle performance, Rebelle fait mieux que son prédécesseur, Cars 2, qui, il y a un an, encaissait dès son entrée en scène 66,1 millions de dollars de recettes. Abraham Lincoln : Chasseur de Vampires, qui démarre avec 16,5 millions de dollars de recettes, doit se contenter de la troisième marche du podium.

En quatrième position, on retrouve le Prometheus de Ridley Scott avec des recettes de 10 millions de dollars (108,5 millions depuis sa sortie), suivi par Blanche-Neige et le chasseur, qui, pour sa quatrième semaine, se maintient avec un cumul de 137 millions. Malgré son casting 4 étoiles (Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Catherine Zeta-Jones…), la comédie musicale Rock Forever ne rapporte pour sa part que 8 millions de dollars supplémentaires, alors qu’à la septième place dégringole la comédie trash Crazy Dad qui génère 7,9 millions de dollars. Avengers (8ème), Men In Black III (9ème) et Jusqu’à ce que la fin du monde nous sépare (10ème), romance portée par Steve Carell et Keira Knightley, complètent ce top 10 en encaissant respectivement depuis leur sortie en salles les sommes de 598,3 millions, 163,3 millions et 3,8 millions de billets verts.

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What a time to head to Los Cabos.

It seemed like a good idea at the time…The G20, the group of a-bit-more-than-20 leaders from both developed and developing states, is scheduled to meet in Mexico on 18-19 June. So the EU sensibly scheduled a summit meeting with Mexico for 16 June in the same resort, Los Cabos. 

Both Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, and José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, who were recently cabin-mates at Camp David, are scheduled to attend. But now that the eurozone’s troubles are so severe and the preparations for the European Council of 28-29 June are so important, being away that long does not look so clever.

Would it help to be reminded that Mexico’s decision to default on its debt, in August 1982, in what is sometimes referred to as “the Mexican weekend”, sounded the starting gun for the Latin American debt crisis and Latin America’s lost decade?

Education ministers from the European Union’s member states will next week be urged by the European Commission to provide emergency funding for the EU’s Erasmus student- exchange programme.

The programme, which celebrated its 25th anniversary this year, is facing a €90 million budget shortfall, and the Commission wants member states to plug the gap. If they do not, funds from the EU’s 2013 annual budget will have to be used, which would lead to a drastic reduction in the number of Erasmus places at universities and a smaller number of grants, the Commission has warned.

Earlier this month, a group of 100 artists, musicians, authors, actors and sports stars wrote an open letter to member states backing the threatened programme. “Education and training must be at the heart of Europe’s response” to the financial crisis, said the letter, signed by, among others, Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar, British playwright David Hare and Italian Olympic fencing chanpion Elisa Di Francisca. They said that if the funding is not forthcoming, “thousands could miss out on a potentially life-changing experience”.

They also urged member states to support the new ‘Erasmus for All’ programme, which would bring a number of education schemes under one umb-rella. While there is widespread support for the combined programme, arguments over funding for the 2014-20 period are delaying its adoption.

“Erasmus for All will cost less than 2% of the total EU budget,” the letter to the member states said. “In the coming weeks, you, the EU’s government leaders, will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to endorse the new programme and give it the resources it needs.”

At next week’s meeting (26-27 November), the education ministers are expected to reach agreement on how to recognise and validate informal and non-formal learning. This includes the likes of workplace training and online learning. Under the plan, member states would be free to establish their own systems, with EU guidance. Only Finland, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands currently have such validation systems in place.

The ministers are also likely to support a ‘Creative Europe’ programme for the 2014-20 period. This would combine the EU’s culture, media and Media Mundus programmes. They will also adopt strategy documents on literacy, the contribution of education to the economic recovery, improving the internet for children, social inclusion of young people, and a strategy to combat the manipulation of sports results.

Rethinking education

On Tuesday (20 November), the Commission launched its ‘rethinking education’ strategy, which offers potential solutions to the mismatch between education and job opportunities in Europe. According to the paper, despite youth unemployment in Europe standing at 23%, there are more than two million job vacancies that cannot be filled.

Androulla Vassiliou, the European commissioner for education, culture, multilingualism and youth, tried to steer the discussion away from funding issues when she unveiled the strategy paper in Strasbourg.

“Rethinking education is not just a question of money,” she said. “Whilst it is true that we need to invest more in education and training, it is clear that education systems also need to modernise and be more flexible in how they operate to respond to the real needs of today’s society.”

The paper’s recommendations include tailoring assessment methods to the needs of the labour market, regular training for teachers, and better links between education and employers.

On 5 December, the Commission will present a ‘youth employment package’ that will ask member states to ensure that every young person receives an offer of employment or further education within four months of leaving school or becoming unemployed.

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Damanaki wants to map the seas.

Maria Damanaki, the European commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries, is an old-fashioned socialist and she demonstrated as much last week (23 April), when she went to Monaco to sign a memorandum of understanding with the International Hydrographic Office, taking with her a pledge to create a high-resolution “digital map” of the seabed in European waters. 

The European Commission has already been involved in a preparing a low- resolution map of water depth, which was made available to private companies, public authorities and researchers. It was, the commissioner said, “patched together and processed from 20 different data providers who themselves processed surveys from 113 different surveying bodies”.

Her declared aim is to cover all European waters at double the resolution by the end of 2014. The digital map will show the depth of water, the type of sediment, the whereabouts of minerals, the zones of human activity and the type of habitat. It will be accompanied by observations on temperature, salinity, chemical pollution and marine life.

This approach, relying as it does on the public sector providing and preserving a public good, strikes Entre Nous as definitively last century. Nowadays, surely you just wait for Google, the internet search and mapping behemoth, to put together ‘Sea View’: Google submarine passes by, taking unauthorised photographs of startled anemones and sea urchins, which in due course are posted on the internet.

The European Union’s leaders will head to a G20 meeting on 18-19 June with a message from the European Commission that protectionism is on the rise in the global economy. 

In a report published yesterday (6 June), the Commission said that there had been a “staggering” 25% increase in “potentially restrictive” trade measures introduced, accompanied by a slowdown in the number of restrictions removed.

At previous summits, G20 members have committed themselves to rolling back protectionist measures introduced to stimulate exports following the economic crisis of 2008.

The Commission said only 89 restrictions have lapsed or been removed since 2008. This compares with 534 currently in place in the 31 countries monitored. The Commission’s report lists Argentina, Russia, Indonesia and Brazil – all G20 members – as the biggest users of trade restrictions. Argentina’s tally of 119 compares with 30 for China, whose public-procurement rules in the wind energy, railways and automotive sectors were highlighted.

The Commission’s conclusions have broad similarities with a 31 May report prepared for the G20 meeting at Los Cabos, Mexico, by the World Trade Organization, the United Nations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Their report does not provide a comparable tally, nor does it talk of an acceleration in protectionism. However, it states that “there has been no slowdown in the imposition of new trade restrictions …and there is no indication that efforts have been stepped up to remove existing restrictions”.

The OECD/UN/WTO report found that three sets of EU rules – on waste electronics, the authorisation of chemicals (Reach) and wine – are among the six that have attracted most complaints from other countries.

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