La Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique consacre cette année, et .

Ils se moquent du qu’en-dira-t-on. Anne Roumanoff et le poète chanteur Jacques Higelin sont les lauréats de deux des Grands Prix 2009 de la Sacem.

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Petit bout de femme au caractère bien trempé, la mutine Anne Roumanoff n’hésite pas à titiller les politiques. Propulsée star de la télé par

qui en fait l’égérie comique de Vivement Dimanche, l’espiègle brunette affiche quand même 22 ans de carrière au compteur. Après de brillantes études à Sciences Po Paris (dans la même promotion que Laurence Parisot, David Pujadas, Jean-François Copé, Frédéric Beigbeder et Isabelle Giordano), Anne Roumanoff fait ses premières armes de chansonnière dans La Classe, sur France 3, aux côtés de Vincent Lagaf’ et Jean-Marie Bigard.
Comparse de Laurent Ruquier sur France Inter, cette fantaisiste toujours vêtue de rouge se lance ensuite dans le one-woman-show et reste treize mois à l’affiche de Bobino.

Créatrice du terme Droite-cassoulet (par analogie avec l’appellation Gauche-caviar), elle remporte le grand prix de l’humour et Jacques Higelin celui de la chanson française comme créateur et interprète.

Parmi les récompensés figurent aussi Manu Dibango (musiques du monde et traditionnelles), Jean-Louis Cap (auteur/réalisateur pour l’audiovisuel), Claude Bolling (musique pour l’audiovisuel), Lionel Florence (chanson française, catégorie créateur/auteur), Bruno Mantovani (musique symphonique), Ivan Jullien (jazz), Allain Leprest (poète), David Guetta/Frédéric Riesterer et Guadalupe Pineda (répertoire Sacem à l’étranger) et Halit Human (édition musicale).

Les Grands Prix seront remis lundi 21 décembre au Théâtre du Rond-Point à Paris.

Mardi 15 décembre 2009

A la Une du magazine Entrevue, elle n’hésite pas. Positions lascives et suggestives, regards coquins et lingeries fines, Kelly Bochenko se laisse photographier sous toutes les courbes. Et ça, chez , ça ne passe pas!

Le règlement, c’est le règlement. Et surtout, madame de Fontenay n’a jamais accepté que l’une de ses miss montre sa petite culotte. Il a fallu des années à la société de production Endemol pour obtenir de la reine des beautés françaises que les miss puissent se mettre en maillot de bain deux pièces lors des défilés…alors Kelly Bochenko à la Une d’Entrevue, pensez donc!

D’autant que la Miss Paris ne s’est pas contentée de photos sexy comme il y a deux ans

, elle a carrément accepté de flirter avec le X.

Ni une, ni deux, Geneviève de Fontenay a arraché rageusement l’écharpe de la demoiselle qui représentait Paris lors de la dernière élection de Miss France 2010. Non seulement Kelly Bochenko est destituée mais elle devra rendre ses cadeaux. Ce crime de lèse-majesté indigne la dame au chapeau qui s’exclame: « Cette fois c’est le bouquet! On n’a jamais rien vu de plus dégoûtant. C’est affligeant, consternant, il n’y a jamais eu ça dans l’histoire de Miss France. On a eu quelques cas, mais ce n’était pas allée jusque-là ».

Kelly Bochenko, elle aussi, s’indigne. A 23 ans, la miss s’estime victime d’un coup monté. Dans un message posté sur le forum A Tout Chœur consacré aux Miss, elle explique que ces clichés ont été pris, au cours d’une soirée trop arrosée, par un ancien petit ami qui l’a « roulée jusqu’au bout ». Son avocat confirme: « Mademoiselle Kelly Bochenko a réalisé ces photographies dans un cadre intime et privé, de manière non professionnelle, il y a plusieurs années. Elle n’a bien évidemment jamais donné quelque autorisation que ce soit de publication de ces clichés qui relèvent de sa vie privée. »

Mais rien ne fera changer Geneviève de Fontenay d’avis. Car au-delà des circonstances dans lesquels ces photos ont été prises, c’est la personnalité même de Kelly Bochenko qui fait aujourd’hui avaler son chapeau à la présidente du Comité. Geneviève de Fontenay « ne veut plus avoir affaire à cette personne ».

La future ex-Miss Paris qui avait signé une déclaration sur l’honneur attestant « n’avoir jamais posé ou s’être exhibée dans des tenues ou poses équivoques, partiellement ou totalement dénudée » a décidé d’engager des poursuites à l’encontre de ce ami qui l’a trahie, mais également contre ceux qui ont diffusé les clichés, classés X.

La présidente du comité Miss France a l’intention de faire remplacer Miss Paris par Miss Ile-de-France. Il n’est pas exclu qu’à l’avenir, comme le confie madame de Fontenay, Paris et Ile-de-France ne forment plus qu’un pour les prochaines élections.

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Vendredi 25 décembre 2009

Après les révélations sur les multiples aventures hors mariage de , le golfeur est parti en Afrique du Sud pour se faire soigner. Il espère ainsi reconquérir sa femme Elin qui souhaite divorcer.

On le croyait parti avec quelques amis sur son yacht pour se relaxer. C’est dans un jet que l’on a vu Tiger Woods atterrir en Afrique du Sud.

Selon le quotidien britannique The Sun, qui raffole de ce genre de petites infos croustillantes – à consommer avec prudence – Tiger Woods aurait choisi ce pays pour se faire soigner… de sa dépendance au sexe!

En effet, lorsqu’il a avoué à sa femme ses nombreuses infidélités, il a promis qu’il ferait tout pour se guérir: la chair est faible… L’icône Tiger n’a pu garder le contrôle, si l’on en croit la dizaine de maîtresses qui s’est manifestée.

C’était trop pour Elin Nordegren qui a demandé le divorce. Pour tenter de se défaire de ses démons, Tiger devait aller dans une clinique d’Arizona, où il avait déjà passé quelques semaines.

Au lieu de cela, le Sun rapporte que le plus grand golfeur de tous les temps suivrait un programme d’un mois et demi dans une clinique spécialisée de Montrose Place, près du Cap. On espère qu’à 5 000 dollars la semaine, ce programme est efficace.

Un proche de Tiger Woods a confié au Sun que cette hypothèse d’une retraite dans une clinique spécialisée était très plausible: «Nous ne l’avons pas vu depuis Noël, nous nous sommes imaginés qu’il était parti se faire aider.»

Quant au directeur de la clinique en question, il ne peut «ni confirmer, ni infirmer l’information selon laquelle le golfeur se trouve dans son établissement.»

En attendant, Elin Nordegren, future-ex Woodsa quitté le domicile conjugal avec ses deux enfants Sam Alexis, deux ans et demi, et Charlie Axel, dix mois. Elle a rejoint sa famille en Suède, pour passer les fêtes de fin d’année, et pourrait y rester quelques temps, loin de Tiger.

Jeudi 14 janvier 2010

Alors que les “Avengers” de Marvel cartonnent dans les salles du monde entier, la Warner vient d’engager un scénariste pour mettre sur pied la “Justice League”, son équivalent côté DC Comics.

Au jour d’aujourd’hui, Avengers affiche pas loin d’1,4 milliards de dollars de recettes (dont 555 millions sur le sol américain), prouvant que trop de super-héros ne tue finalement pas le super-héros, et qu’on peut bien réunir des personnalités aussi fortes qu’Iron Man, Thor ou Captain America sur un même écran sans qu’elles se court-circuitent. De tels chiffres donnent forcément des idées à d’autres, à commencer par la Warner, qui vient d’engager le scénariste de The Gangster Squad pour mettre la Justice League sur pied. Ou plutôt “remettre”, car le projet avait déjà failli se faire plus d’une fois, avec George Miller aux commandes notamment. On ne sait pas encore si cette fois-ci sera la bonne, mais cette annonce fait curieusement écho aux récentes déclarations de Christian Bale (voir notre article), qui se disait éventuellement partant pour ré-enfiler le costume de Batman, l’un des piliers de la Justice League aux côtés de Superman, Green Lantern ou Wonder Woman.

C’est un oiseau ? Non, une Arlésienne !

Ladite Wonder Woman qui, justement, refait surface elle aussi. Après le film (abandonné) de Joss Whedon, et la série de David E. Kelley, annulée avant même la diffusion de son pilote, l’avenir de la super-héroïne sur les écrans était gentiment flou, jusqu’à aujourd’hui en tout cas. Et c’est à croire qu’il y a récemment eu une super réunion dans les bureaux de la Warner, puisque le studio a annoncé que le Michael Goldenberg de Green Lantern allait s’atteler aux aventures de Wonder Woman, sans préciser quelle date de sortie il visait. On espère juste que l’Amazone aura plus de succès que son collègue vert dans les salles obscures.

Maximilien Pierrette avec Variety

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A visit from the awkward neighbours

It’s laughter all round as Swiss politicians come to Brussels.

Switzerland, surrounded as it is by countries that are part of the European Union, needs good relations with the EU far more than the EU needs good relations with Switzerland. This asymmetry was on display in Brussels on Tuesday (20 March) when senior Swiss politicians held awkward talks with the EU’s leadership. 

Switzerland has almost complete access to the EU’s internal market through a series of bilateral agreements. But the EU is getting impatient with Swiss cherry-picking and wants to put in place a framework for relations, with supranational institutions to oversee implementation of existing agreements and to adjudicate on disputes. That is anathema to the Swiss, who rejected membership of the European Economic Area in the 1990s and prefer the ad-hoc character of current arrangements.

That message was brought to Brussels this week by Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Switzerland’s finance minister, who this year also serves as federal president, and Didier Burkhalter, foreign minister since January. Neither Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, or José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, seemed receptive.

They held equally awkward talks with Algirdas Šemeta, the European commissioner for taxation, and paid a courtesy visit to Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament, who is an outspoken critic of bilateral tax deals between member states and Switzerland.

The ministers had to prolong their stay to attend memorial services for Belgian schoolchildren who died in a coach accident in the Swiss Alps last week.

Movers & Shakers

The European Commission has appointed eight academic experts to sit on its new scientific advisory board for EU development policy. They are François Bourguignon from the Paris School of Economics, Ha-Joon Chang from the University of Cambridge, Paul Collier from Oxford University, Simon Maxwell from the UK’s Overseas Development Institute, Dirk Messner from the German Development Institute, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos from the South African Institute of International Affairs, Jonathan White from the German Marshall Fund, and Lennart Wohlgemuth from Gothenburg University.

Dennis Kredler has been appointed director-general of the European Retail Round Table, which represents the big retailers in Europe. Kredler previously worked at the European Round Table of Industrialists.

Bernd Bogalla has been appointed as head of the German Coal Association’s office in Brussels and will be responsible for European affairs. Bogalla will maintain his current position at the European Association for Coal and Lignite.

Gunnar Selvik has been appointed as registrar of the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court in Luxembourg. Selvik is currently director of the goods division at the EFTA secretariat in Brussels. He will take over from Skuli Magnusson on 1 September 2012.

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Portugal’s economic reforms ‘on track’

Troika says the Portuguese government is doing enough to secure next instalment of bail-out.

Portugal’s economic reform programme is on schedule and the country should qualify for the next instalment of its international bail-out package, experts from the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said today.

Experts from the ‘troika’ visited Portugal from 15-27 February, and said in a report that the country was implementing economic reform policies as planned. There had also been progress with reforms to increase competitiveness, growth and jobs, the troika said, although there was still work to be done.

The report said that Portugal’s economy would shrink by 3.5% this year after contracting by 1.5% in 2011. The report said that the economy would see a “slow recovery” in 2013, mainly supported by private investment and exports. The report also said that Portugal would meet its target for reducing its deficit to 4.5% this year provided that “downside risks to the economy” did not materialise.

Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs and the euro, welcomed the troika’s announcement, saying: “Portugal is making steady progress to restore fiscal sustainability, ensure a gradual deleveraging of the banking sector and advance structural reforms to enhance competitiveness and boost growth and jobs.”

‘Courage and sacrifices’

He said that the Portuguese government was pursuing an “ambitious, but realistic programme”, saying that the broad political support it enjoyed was a “key asset for its success”. 

Rehn said he recognised that the economic adjustment and ongoing reforms required “courage and sacrifices” from the Portuguese people.

Portugal’s bail-out from the EU and IMF is worth €88 billion. If national finance ministers and the IMF approve the findings of the latest report, the next instalment, worth €14.9bn, should be paid out in April.

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Hopes fade for eurozone tax on financial trading

The prospect of the eurozone introducing a tax on financial transactions is fading fast as finance ministers and officials raise doubts about how the proposal can be made to work.

The finance ministers of the 17 eurozone countries and of the wider European Union meet in Copenhagen tomorrow and Saturday (30-31 March) to debate the matter for the second time in three weeks, but an agreement to tax share dealings and other financial trades is increasingly unlikely.

Non-eurozone countries, particularly the UK and Sweden, have publicly opposed the plan for some time, and hopes that a eurozone-only tax could be introduced were dealt a blow at the last meeting of finance ministers, on 13 March, when the Netherlands also declared its opposition.

Although José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, has urged finance ministers to approve the plan, saying that it could halve member states’ contributions to the EU budget, the Commission’s arguments appear to be losing traction.

Wolfgang Schäuble, the finance minister of Germany, who has supported the idea, said on Monday (26 March) that the plan now had little chance of success.

“We just can’t get it done,” he said, adding that member states should begin to look at alternative ways to raise money from the financial sector.

Schäuble had put his name to a joint letter from nine of the eurozone finance ministers, on 7 February, which called for a transaction tax to be introduced as soon as possible because they held a “strong belief” in its benefits.

Schäuble’s Austrian counterpart, Maria Fekter, said on Tuesday (27 March) that finance ministers would look at other options and report back to their governments.

Officials from the Commission believe that there is still a chance that a group of countries might introduce a tax among themselves under the ‘enhanced co-operation’ procedure.

The idea of an FTT, championed by France, was proposed in September by the Commission, which suggested a 0.1% levy on share dealings and 0.01% on the trading of other financial products, to bring in an estimated €57 billion.

Opponents, notably from the UK, where most of the EU’s financial transactions take place, said that an EU-only tax would encourage financial services to leave the EU.

Hannes Swoboda, the Austrian leader of the centre-left group in the European Parliament, yesterday (28 March) sent a letter to Margrethe Vestager, the economics minister of Denmark, which holds the rotating presidency of the EU’s Council of Ministers, urging her to keep the idea of a financial- transaction tax alive.

Describing Schäuble’s remarks as “irritating”, he said: “Ahead of the meeting of finance ministers we need to have a coherent wording and a clear position in favour of the financial-transaction tax and against any means of tax evasion.”

? In addition to the debate on the transaction tax, finance ministers are under pressure to reach a decision on the lending capacity of the eurozone’s rescue fund.

The question they will address is whether to continue to run the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), in parallel with the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), which was supposed to replace the EFSF from July.

An EU official said that an option to permanently combine the full lending power of both funds, to bring the firewall up to €940bn, had “not been met with unanimous enthusiasm”, but in light of Germany softening its stance would likely be above the current €500bn limit.

Hard targets, watered-down commitments

The EU’s spending plans suggest it is losing sight of the importance of health and education to development.

In 2000, 189 nations took on a commitment to eradicate extreme poverty and multiple deprivations by 2015. This became known as the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Today, World Health Day, is a moment to take stock of what has been achieved and what needs to be done.

There is much to celebrate. Governments in developed and developing countries, and civil-society organisations the world over have done some excellent work. However, we are still a long way from attaining the health MDGs, a fact which should concern decision-makers and politicians across the EU.

The fourth MDG aims to reduce the mortality rates of children under five by two-thirds by 2015. Yet, according to the World Health Organization, in 2010 nearly 21,000 children were still dying every day.

The fifth MDG aims to reduce maternal mortality rates by three-quarters and give everyone access to reproductive healthcare. Yet in 2008, 1000 women died per day due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth.

The sixth MDG aims to have halted and reversed the spread of AIDS by 2015. Yet 1.8 million people died of AIDS-related illnesses in 2010.

Europe can, and should, do more to help developing countries to reverse these trends and achieve the MDGs. We do not pretend that this is an easy job in the current economic climate. What we do believe is that the benefits of eradicating poverty, reversing the spread of killer diseases and giving children the right to healthcare and basic education, are extremely simple to understand.

The EU, the world’s largest donor, has on many occasions committed itself to ensuring that the health MDGs are met. We welcome these commitments. We are, though, very concerned about some of the principal changes in the EU budget for health and basic education in the developing world contained in the European Commission’s proposal for the next long-term budget, for 2014-20.
 
The long-term budget – the multiannual financial framework (MFF) – is, of course, a hotly debated topic. We welcome the proposed increase of the EU’s external action budget (which includes foreign development assistance), taking it from 5.7% to 6.8% of the EU’s total budget, and in particular the proposed increase for the development co-operation instrument (DCI) by 17% in constant prices.

What is of huge concern is that, instead of earmarking 20% of the DCI to health and basic education, as it had promised, the Commission has earmarked this 20% to ‘human development’, a term that it defines very broadly, to include jobs and growth. This is a clear watering-down of the funds that were dedicated to basic health and education in the previous DCI.

Experts will agree that in the battle to eradicate poverty, these two areas of development aid – health and education – are of critical importance. In our opinion, at least 20% of the DCI should be dedicated exclusively to health and basic education. The European Parliament has made repeated calls in that direction in the past.

Along with many other non-governmental organisations, Plan EU has written to Andris Piebalgs, the European commissioner for development, to express to him our concerns on this distribution of funds and to highlight the vital importance of health and basic education to pulling people out of poverty. Without this change, we are extremely concerned about the situation for people with no access to the basic human rights that most of us take for granted.

The investment that my organisation alone has put into our health work initiatives has already saved many lives and helped elevate children out of poverty. In 2011, Plan trained 175,886 professional and volunteer health workers in early education and care skills, benefiting 18,416 communities. Across rural Senegal, for example, Plan-supported ‘health huts’ ensure that more than 90% of children are now receiving immunisation, compared with just over half five years ago. Those children can now go on to lead productive lives and contribute to the success of their communities and countries.

It is vital that the EU institutions look again at the earmarking of development funding within the MFF and the distribution of spending on health and basic education. To make World Health Day an occasion for celebration in the future, members of the European Parliament, policymakers and representatives need to ensure that the EU plays its part.

Karen Schroh is the head of Plan EU’s Brussels office. Plan is a member of the Action for Global Health network, which includes non-governmental organisations from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK.

Ships won’t be able to ‘de-flag’ before dismantling

Commission insists new rules will prevent de-flagging before shipbreaking.

The European Commission has said that new rules proposed today (23 March) for tighter restrictions on how and where EU shipowners can dismantle their vessels will combat the practice of ‘de’flagging’ – which owners are using to avoid current rules.

Under the current waste-shipment regulation, EU-flagged ships cannot be exported for dismantling. But owners avoid this rule by switching ships’ flags to a non-EU country before it is decommissioned. The new regulation would take ships out of the waste-shipment regulation and create new rules.

The new rules would make EU shipowners responsible for ensuring their ships are dismantled safely and environmentally soundly within six months after selling them or de-flagging them. If not, they could be fined by the Commission. The Commission will draw up a list of facilities considered ‘sustainable’ under the proposal. A Commission official said that it would not be economically beneficial for shipowners to wait any longer than six months before dismantling.

“This proposal aims to ensure that our old ships are recycled in a way that respects the health of workers as well as the environment,” said Janez Potočnik, the European commissioner for the environment. “It is a clear signal to invest urgently in upgrading recycling facilities.”

Pollution and health fears

Currently, an estimated 80% of out-of-service ships are beached in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan for dismantling. When done improperly, ship recycling harms workers and pollutes the environment. The new rules largely implement global standards agreed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in 2009 in the Hong Kong Convention.

No country has yet ratified the convention, and there is no deadline for implementation, though the rules are expected to be in place within eight to ten years. The Commission wants to oblige member states to ratify the convention now. For EU carriers, owners of 40% of the world’s ships, the rules would take effect in 2014.

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