“Intouchables” vient de passer le cap des 300 millions de dollars de recettes à travers le monde. Du jamais vu pour un film français !
302 millions de dollars ! Vous ne rêvez pas ! C’est le montant des recettes générées à travers le monde par Intouchables. Jamais avant un film français n’avait atteint un tel score à l’international. Plus gros succès francophone de l’histoire en Allemagne (69 millions de dollars), cette comédie du tandem Toledano / Nakache, qui a dégagé 166 millions de billets verts rien qu’en France, bat également des records aux box-offices italien (12,7 millions), espagnol (9,4 millions), belge (8,5 millions), voire même coréen (6,3 millions). Reste encore à savoir si le film cartonnera aux Etats-Unis où sa date de sortie est prévue le 25 mai prochain.
Retour en prison pour Chelsea Manning. L’ex-analyste du renseignement américain, qui avait fait fuiter des milliers de documents classés secret-défense en 2010, a été placée en détention, vendredi 8 mars, en raison de son refus de témoigner devant un grand jury dans une enquête sur WikiLeaks.“Je vous déclare coupable d’entrave à la bonne marche de la justice”, a déclaré le juge fédéral qui l’a écrouée. Chelsea Manning affirme bénéficier d’un droit constitutionnel à ne pas être interrogée par ce grand jury, dont elle dénonce par ailleurs l’opacité des actes de procédure. Elle s’est pourtant vu proposer une immunité dans le cadre de ces investigations. Chelsea Manning restera écrouée tant qu’elle ne reviendra pas sur sa décision ou jusqu’à ce que le grand jury soit dissous, selon le juge.Libérée en 2017Il y a neuf ans, le soldat Manning, alors prénommé Bradley, avait fait fuiter, grâce à WikiLeaks, plus de 700 000 documents confidentiels ayant trait aux guerres d’Irak et d’Afghanistan, dont plus de 250 000 câbles diplomatiques qui avaient plongé les Etats-Unis dans l’embarras.Condamnée à 35 ans de prison pour ces faits, l’ex-analyste du renseignement en a purgé sept, ayant bénéficié en 2017 d’une commutation de peine octroyée par l’ancien président Barack Obama. Lors de sa détention, elle avait entamé sa transition vers son identité de femme.Click Here: Cheap Chiefs Rugby Jersey 2019
“C’est une énorme saisie, d’habitude nous saisissons des dizaines, quelques fois des centaines de kilos d’écailles. Ici on parle de plus de deux tonnes !”, s’est réjoui le directeur adjoint de l’ONG LAGA, Eric Kaba Tah, avec qui les forces de l’ordre ont conjointement mené l’opération.Ce trafic semble sans fin, et nous nous en faisons régulièrement l’écho. En juillet 2017 trois tonnes d’écailles étaient saisies en Côte d’Ivoire. Malgré l’interdiction de son commerce depuis 2016, l’animal peut encore s’acheter dans des échoppes de Hong Kong, où ses écailles se vendent à prix d’or explique l’AFP. Selon l’ONG LAGA, la saisie est estimée à 150 millions de francs CFA (227 000 euros)..@CITES #CoP17 agrees in Committee to move all 8 species of #pangolins, the most trafficked mammal, in Appendix I for stronger protection pic.twitter.com/pQ2jRaMnAE — CITES (@CITES) 28 septembre 2016
Ce pauvre mammifère fourmilier ne fait pourtant de mal à personne. Son seul problème : avoir le corps couvert d’écailles. En Asie du Sud-Est, elles passent pour avoir des vertus thérapeutiques et aphrodisiaques. Selon des études un million de pangolins ont été capturés en dix ans en Afrique et en Asie, et l’espèce est aujourd’hui menacée. Les trois tonnes d’écailles saisies en 2017 en Côte d’Ivoire représentent environ 4000 pangolins.Et, en guise de saisie accessoire, les policiers ont également mis la main sur 200 défenses d’ivoire. Le réseau, selon les autorités, agit depuis le Nigeria et alimente l’Asie et le Moyen-Orient.
En l’absence de toute manifestation islamiste dans le soulèvement de la société algérienne contre le pouvoir du président Bouteflika, un étrange appel est venu de l’extérieur.”Pourquoi, il n’y a pas d’hommes chez vous ?”Connu pour ses prêches radicaux, le cheikh Wagdi Ghoneim, Frère musulman réfugié en Turquie, a pris ces derniers jours l’initiative de critiquer le soulèvement en Algérie, a rapporté le 18 mars 2019 le site IndependentArabia.Dans un enregistrement vidéo, Cheikh Ghoneim, condamné à mort par contumace en avril 2017 en Egypte pour avoir fondé “une organisation interdite”, reproche aux manifestants algériens de réclamer “la démocratie, au lieu d’exiger la création d’un Etat islamique et l’application de la charia”. “Ne donnez pas de pouvoir aux laïcs et ne leur permettez pas de chevaucher votre mouvement” a-t-il lancé à ses “frères héros d’ Algérie”.Le prédicateur ne s’est pas contenté de reprocher la laïcité du mouvement, il s’en est pris également à la militante historique du FLN, Djamila Bouhired, devenue une icône des révoltes algériennes en prenant part aux marches de protestation malgré ses 83 ans.“Une qui fait mine d’être révolutionnaire ou je ne sais quoi, alors qu’il est déjà assez honteux qu’elle ne soit pas voilée” , lance-t-il, évitant soigneusement de dire le mot “femme” ou de prononcer son nom. “Qu’est ce qu’elle va vous apporter celle-là ? C’est elle qui va vous apporter le bien ? Et comment ? Pourquoi, il n’y a pas d’hommes chez vous ou quoi ?”, a-t-il encore ironisé.Tollé des internautes contre les provocations de Cheikh GhoneimUne intervention qui lui a aussitôt valu une volée de réactions sur les réseaux sociaux. Certaines le traitant de “chien de l’enfer” qui souhaite la destruction de l’Algérie, d’autres appelant les prédicateurs, “ces commerçants de la religion”, à ne pas se mêler des affaires algériennes : “Nous avons suffisamment goûté de malheurs à cause de vous”, affirme ce tweet de maghrebvoices.
جزائريون يردّون على دعاة: يا تجار الدين لا تتدخلوا في شؤوننا.. فقد ذقنا الويلات بسببكم pic.twitter.com/6vblfZKeG5 — أصوات مغاربية (@maghrebvoices) 20 mars 2019
D’autres encore y ont vu un signe que “les frères Daechisés (en référence au mouvement islamiste Daech) sortent de leurs tanières et de leurs nids comme des corbeaux, pour chevaucher le mouvement du peuple algérien”. Nombreux sont ceux qui lui reprochent également d’être tranquillement “installé en Turquie au lieu d’aller en Palestine se faire moujahid comme Omar el Mokhtar”.Concernant ses attaques contre la présence de Djamila Bouhired, un internaute suivi par des milliers d’abonnés sur Twitter s’est chargé de lui rappeler le rôle de la femme en Algérie.
Un prédicateur égyptien exhorte les algériens à faire la guerre sainte! YA Boukoukou, nos femmes ne sont pas des houris pour révolutionnaires ratés. Chez nous c’est elles qui font la révolution.— Sidali (@XIDALI) 17 mars 2019
Face à ce torrent d’appels à ne pas s’ingérer dans les affaires de l’Algérie, le dignitaire religieux a cru bon de relancer le débat. Dans une nouvelle vidéo postée sur son compte Twitter, le 17 mars, il a répondu vertement à ses détracteurs.
وجدى غنيم ردى على من يعيبون على نصيحتى لاخوانى المسلمين فى الجزائر https://t.co/WPOf6IRhva — وجدي غنيم (@WagdiGhoneim) 17 mars 2019
(Voici ma réponse à ceux qui veulent me faire honte des conseils que j’ai donnés à mes frères musulmans en Algérie)Leur reprochant de réfléchir en algérien, égyptien ou autre, il affirme s’adresser en musulman à d’autres musulmans et les appelle à se débarrasser des frontières de la colonisation établies par les accords Sykes-Picot en 1916, objectif déclaré du Califat d’Abou Bakr al-Baghdadi.Click Here: All Blacks Rugby Jersey
Commission calls for funds to deal with bank failures
Michel Barnier wants network to support banks that get into trouble.
The European Commission today (26 May) called for the creation of a harmonised network of national “resolution funds” to support banks that get into financial difficulties.
Michel Barnier, the European commissioner for the internal market, says the funds are essential to prevent taxpayers having to pay for bail-outs for ailing banks in a future crisis.
The funds would be financed by national levies on the banking sector. “Taxpayers should no longer be on the front line,” Barnier said.
The funds would pay for early interventions to support banks that get into financial difficulties, preventing matters from escalating to the point where a full-scale bail-out is needed. They would cover interventions such as the setting up of a bridge bank or bad bank, and the transfer of assets or liabilities. They would also cover legal fees.
Barnier wants member states to pool money from their funds to cope with difficulties in large, cross-border banks.
The Commission warned, in a policy paper it adopted today, that “failure to adopt an EU approach” to the funds could lead to “competitive distortions between national banking markets” and practical “obstacles to efficient handling of crises”. It wants every member state to have a fund, designed according to common EU criteria.
“If private-sector funds are available in some member states but not in others…[it] may render agreement on the sharing of costs more complex, if not impossible,” the paper said.
Several countries, including the UK and France, want to use money from bank levies in their general budgets, rather than resolution funds. They argue that the levies would help them to reduce their budget deficits, a pressing necessity in the context of the eurozone debt crisis.
George Osborne, the UK’s finance minister, said today that the purpose of the UK’s planned bank levy would be “to raise money for general expenditure purposes”.
The UK and other governments also fear that the creation of funds would lead to moral hazard, as banks would know that they would be supported if they got into difficulty as a result of irresponsible activities.
Barnier, however, is firmly against paying the money into national budgets. He said that funds “allow for proper restructuring and resolution before any major disaster hits a financial institution”.
“You don’t have to wait for a disaster to occur and then ask the taxpayer to step in,” he said.
The Commission plans to consult with member states and the financial sector before deciding in the autumn which harmonised criteria should apply to the funds, including how the bank levies should be calculated (eg, based on liabilities or profits), and how large they should be. Draft legislation will follow in early 2011.
The Commission’s policy paper says that the creation of the national funds should serve as a stepping stone to having a single financial reserve, managed at EU level.
It says that the network of national funds would be “first step” that “would be reviewed by 2014 with the aim of creating integrated crisis management and supervisory arrangements, as well as an EU resolution fund in the longer term”.
Barnier denied, however, that he had already decided to push for a single European fund.
“The Commission’s proposal doesn’t involve one single fund or a federal fund,” he said, adding that the idea was not practical in the current political climate.
“Our proposal is realistic and pragmatic in today’s circumstances,” he said.
Under attack
The Commission’s plans have been fiercely attacked by the business community as a threat to vital bank lending and damaging to the EU’s competitiveness.
“If they [the levies] were applied to Europe and not to the rest of the world they would damage the competitiveness of our financial services industry,” Richard Lambert, the director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, said.
“The Commission needs to be very wary of unintended consequences, and many questions remain unanswered,” he added.
“An ex-ante fund would entail large costs for the banks,” Robert Priester, head of department for wholesale and regulatory policy at the European Banking Federation (EBF), said.
Priester said that the EBF’s members “are concerned about the multiple financial requirements on banks”.
“The cumulative impact of all the current and forthcoming proposals…aimed at the banks…needs to be assessed to guard against adverse unintended consequences,” he said.
“At the moment we cannot support the idea of an EU-wide tax or levy to pay into a pan-European fund,” Angela Knight, chief executive of the British Bankers’ Association, said. “Why should the banks in one country pay for the problems of banks in another?”
Sweden is currently the only member state to have set up a resolution fund, although Germany has said that it will follow suit.
The Commission estimates that the EU spent 13% of its gross domestic product to support the banking sector during the financial crisis.
EU leaders to discuss financial priorities with Europe 2020 and climate change also on the agenda.
The leaders of the European Union’s 27 national governments will meet next Thursday (17 June) in Brussels with the aim of agreeing reforms to economic governance and priorities for financial reform.
The European Council will also adopt a ten-year strategy for economic growth, and discuss progress in international climate-change negotiations.
Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, wants to secure a firm commitment from governments that they will, in future, submit details of their draft budgets for review by the EU before they are submitted to national parliaments. Van Rompuy also wants agreement to reform the sanctions that can be applied to member states that have excessively high deficits or levels of public debt. He sees the steps as essential to restoring market faith in the eurozone’s finances.
Van Rompuy, however, is likely to face resistance from the UK, which has said that it will not provide any budget details for review that have not already been submitted to parliament and placed in the public domain.
The UK fears that Van Rompuy is prejudging the work of a ministerial taskforce that was set up by a decision of 27 March. The taskforce, which met for the first time on 21 May and for a second time on 7 June under the chairmanship of Van Rompuy, is drafting proposals to reform economic governance. It is scheduled to submit its report in October.
The Commission plans to make proposals in July to take forward any agreements that are reached on economic governance at next week’s European Council.
G20 talks
The national leaders will agree common positions on financial reform ahead of a summit of leaders from the G20 group of developed and emerging economies in Toronto on 26-27 June. These positions will include support for the introduction of banking levies, and that G20 countries should increase the pace of their reforms to financial supervision.
José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, will come under pressure from Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, and Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president, to accelerate plans to regulate the derivatives market and short-selling. Merkel and Sarkozy sent Barroso a letter on Tuesday (8 June) calling on the Commission to present “all possible measures for action” before the EU’s finance ministers meet on 13 July.
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Pre-summit progress on reform
Eurozone support facility Finance ministers agreed on Monday (7 June) on the details of a €440 billion support facility to help a eurozone country at risk of defaulting on its public debt. The deal was hailed by ministers as a breakthrough for economic governance in the eurozone. They said it should reassure the financial markets that eurozone countries are safe from default, and so prevent a repeat of the soaring bond yields experienced over the past two months by Greece, Portugal, Spain and, most recently, Hungary. The facility will be a special purpose vehicle (SPV). In the event that a government in the eurozone is faced with serious financial difficulties, the SPV will issue its own debt, and use the proceeds to provide loans to the member state in difficulty. The facility’s debt will be guaranteed by the members of the eurozone, as well as by Sweden and Poland, which have volunteered to take part. The chairman of the board of the SPV will be Klaus Regling, a former director-general for economic and financial affairs at the European Commission and a German national. Click Here: PuttersEurostat powers EU finance ministers on Tuesday (8 June) agreed legislation to give Eurostat, the Union’s statistical office, audit powers over member states’ national finances. Eurostat will be able to send officials to national capitals to go through the public accounts and check that governments are accurately reporting their deficits and level of public debt. Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, said that the first audit visit was likely to take place in Bulgaria, because the Commission has “some concerns as regards [the country’s] statistical performance”.
The leaders will also adopt Europe 2020, a ten-year strategy to repair the economy and deliver growth.
In addition, leaders will confirm finance ministers’ decision on Tuesday that Estonia should join the eurozone on 1 January 2011, becoming the 17th member of the single currency.
On climate change, leaders will ask the Commission for further study into whether the EU should increase its target for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions from 20% to 30% by 2020, from 1990 levels.
Prime minister calls for financial aid from the eurozone and International Monetary Fund.
The Greek government has requested activation of a €45 billion emergency loan facility from eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund in a last-ditch attempt to save the country from default.
Greece’s decision is unprecedented in the history of the eurozone, which has previously adhered to the principle that governments should not look to each other for budgetary support.
George Papandreou, Greece’s prime minister, said it was a “national and pressing necessity” to activate the aid facility. “Our partners will decisively contribute to provide Greece with the safe harbour that will allow us to rebuild our ship,” he said.
The European Commission said the necessary procedural steps would be taken as soon as possible to deal with Greece’s request.
“All this will take place speedily, we are not foreseeing any obstacles,” a spokesman for Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, said.
He said that the Commission and the European Central Bank would submit an opinion on the Greek request to eurozone finance ministers, who would then take a decision on whether to release the money. He said these steps would be taken over the next few days.
Ministers must decide whether Greece has exhausted other options for staving off default – a key criteria for the mechanism to be activated. Greece did, however, hold preliminary discussions with the Commission and governments prior to making its request, and opposition to activating the mechanism is not expected.
Dominique Strauss-Khan, managing director of the IMF, said: “We are prepared to move expeditiously on this request.”
Papandreou took the decision to request support in response to speculation on the financial markets about Greek debt. Yields on Greek ten-year bonds yesterday reached 8.92%, the highest level since 1998, and 580 basis points more than the yield on German bonds. The cost of credit default swaps (a type of insurance against default) on Greek sovereign debt reached an all-time high, smashing through the 600 basis point barrier for the first time. This convinced the Greek government that its efforts in recent weeks to restore confidence in the strength of its public finances had failed, and that it would have to seek support to prevent default.
Ministers agreed on 11 April to set up the emergency loan facility as a response to Greece’s debt crisis. It would provide finance to Greece at rates substantially lower than it is currently paying on the markets. According to this week’s IMF rates, Greece would pay between 1.26%-3.26% on its loans from the international lender.
The rate applicable to its loans from the eurozone will be calculated by adding certain charges onto the Euribor rate used in the interbank market. The rate on a three-year fixed-rate loan granted by the eurozone on 5 April would have been around 5%.
The eurozone will provide around two-thirds of the total support from the facility, which is expected to run for three years. The facility has a total budget of around €45bn for 2010. Its budget for future years has yet to be determined. All eurozone governments have committed themselves to contribute funds if the mechanism is activated.
Officials from the Commission, European Central Bank and IMF have been in Athens since Wednesday discussing the technical details that will apply to the loans. The Commission said these discussions would now be concluded as swiftly as possible. The IMF and Commission are expected to extract concessions from Greece on painful structural reforms to slash the deficit and boost competitiveness. Rehn said yesterday that Greece needed to commit to further reforms in 2011-12 if it was going to meet its budget-reduction targets.
Athens was yesterday gripped by protests against the use of austerity measures to bring the deficit down.
Greece is battling to control an enormous budget deficit which reached at least 13.6% of gross domestic product in 2009, the second highest in the eurozone. Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, has warned that the real figure may be more than 14%.
A decision by credit ratings agency Moody’s yesterday to downgrade Greece’s credit rating served to harden investors’ conviction that Greece would be unable to honour a €8.5 billion bond repayment on 19 May.
EMA chief warns against efforts to cut cost of drugs
UK bid to cut drugs spending causes concern.
A UK bid to cut its drugs spending has alarmed Europe’s most senior medicines official, who believes that the European Commission should intervene.
Thomas Lönngren, the executive director of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), says he is concerned at the possibility that the UK will encourage the use of a bowel-cancer medicine to treat degeneration of the eye.
The drug, Avastin, has not gone through the rigorous testing procedure required for licensed use in ophthalmology, but the UK is now assessing whether it could be an adequate, cost-effective alternative to the much more expensive standard eye treatment.
Lönngren, whose agency has a key role in ensuring that medicines prescribed in the EU have been adequately tested, says he is “unhappy” with the possibility of such “off-label” use. For a member state to encourage the use of a pharmaceutical for an indication for which it is not licensed would be a breach of EU legislation, he said.
More widely, Lönngren warned that member states’ reluctance to pay for new medicines has “broken” the single market in terms of patient access.
Limiting spending
As member states struggle to limit their healthcare spending – in the face of ever-tighter budgets and ever-growing demand – they are increasingly keeping expensive new medicines off the market, or insisting on price cuts. They frequently justify their decisions through the emerging discipline of ‘health-technology assessment’, which incorporates non-medical considerations into appraisals.
But Lönngren said that if a medicine has been approved through the EU’s authorisation procedures, it is fit for purpose.
He believes that if there are problems at member-state level, they should be tackled by the European Commission.
Christina Fasser of Retina International, which represents eye patients, also expressed concern at treatment by an off-label drug in some EU countries in an effort to reduce costs, “despite the availability of a drug that has undergone scrupulous testing”. She said that patient groups in the EU “are concerned that, in times of economic pressure, patient safety may be compromised.”
The European Patients’ Forum also insisted that assessments of health technology “cannot be used as a pretext for tough decisions if public confidence is to be maintained” and called for involvement of patients and their organisations in these processes – which, it said, “is not yet happening in many EU countries”.
No one from the office of John Dalli, the European commissioner for health and consumer affairs, would comment on or respond to Lönngren’s concerns.
The Brazilian has denied breaching the self-isolation protocols which have been put in place to contain the spread of coronavirus
Paris Saint-Germain superstar Neymar has released a statement via his entourage in response to being criticised for posting an image of himself playing beach volleyball with friends in Brazil.
The coronavirus crisis has caused major disruptions to the sporting calendar across the globe, with the 2019-20 football season currently on hold.
A number of countries have put strict measures in place in a bid to slow the rate of infection, as the number of confirmed cases and deaths continues to rise with each passing day.
The majority of new Covid-19 cases are coming from Europe, which was officially named as the new epicentre of the pandemic earlier this month.
France are among a number of countries currently in a state of lockdown, leaving citizens with no choice but to self-isolate in their homes and practise social distancing wherever possible.
Ligue 1 is one of several major European leagues to have been suspended indefinitely, with Premiere Ligue president Bernard Caiazzo insisting the current campaign will not resume until June at the earliest.
PSG talisman Neymar flew back to his homeland to undertake his spell in quarantine, but caused controversy by uploading a picture to Instagram which showed him on a volleyball court with four other people and his son.
The 28-year-old has denied any wrongdoing, however, with his communications manager speaking out to clarify the Brazil international’s actions.
The statement reads: “The photo in question was published on Neymar’s Instagram and shows him with other people who are in quarantine with him, people who live and travelled together from Paris to Brazil.
“Neymar offered his home to all of them so they could spend the first 14 days there before meeting up with their respective families.
“The house where the athlete is doing his quarantine is totally isolated and provides peace and serenity so he can continue training and looking after his loved ones at this time of world pain and confinement.
“There are no visits or business meetings at the house, above all because the residential estate it’s on only permits access to residents.
“The exception in terms of visitors has been his son, Davi Lucca, who came to the house to stay with his dad.
“David, his mum, his stepdad and his brother were in Paris days earlier to visit him.
“Neymar is staying apart from other members of his family, like his mum, sister and grandmother, for example, because he understands this is a moment that demands an effort for the common good.
“The athlete continues with his daily work to prevent injuries and keep himself in shape with his trainer Ricardo Rosa, as he anxiously awaits the end of this sad moment for humanity and the restart of his professional activity.”
A former Gunner says he is delighted to see a fellow German doing so well at Allianz Arena after a frustrating spell at Emirates Stadium
Bayern Munich winger Serge Gnabry failed to make the grade at Arsenal due to a combination of bad luck and injuries, according to Lukas Podolski.
Gnabry rose through the youth ranks at Arsenal before graduating to the senior squad in 2012 at the tender age of 16.
The pacey attacker was tipped for a bright future at Emirates Stadium, but ended up being shipped out on loan to West Brom after struggling to earn a regular place in Arsene Wenger’s line-up.
The Frenchman was reportedly eager to retain Gnabry’s services, but he pushed for a move away from the club in the summer of 2016, with Werder Bremen eventually snapping him up for £5 million.
The Germany international racked up 27 Bundesliga appearances during his first year at Weser Stadion, and impressed enough to convince Bayern to launch a bid for his services.
The Bavarians tied Gnabry down to a three-year deal after triggering the €8 million release clause in his contract, before loaning him out to Hoffenheim for the 2017-18 campaign.
The ex-Arsenal starlet joined up with his new team-mates at Allianz Arena one year later, and has since fulfilled the immense potential he showed as a youngster in north London.
Gnabry played a key role during Bayern’s run to a league and cup double last season, and has built on that platform by establishing himself as one of the most deadly wingers in European football.
Podolski, who witnessed his compatriot’s talents up close during his time at the Emirates, is “pleased” to see an old team-mate thriving in the Bundesliga after his misfortunes with the Gunners.
“He was unlucky and had a few injuries. He did well in training,” the ex-Arsenal striker said of Gnabry during the May edition of FourFourTwo magazine.
“Off the pitch we spent a lot of time together, going for dinner. But sometimes football is like that, or you find a manager who gives you more confidence.
“Serge can shoot with both feet, and he is powerful and quick – a bit like me, only I don’t have a right foot like him!
“I’m really pleased that he’s doing well at Bayern.”
Gnabry has hit 18 goals in 33 appearances across all competitions for Bayern this season, including four against Tottenham in a stunning 7-2 victory away from home in the Champions League group stage.