All France articles – Page 3

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    Blog

    French compliance with governance code

    2016-11-23T08:45:00Z

    Paul Hodgson provides a look at the Autorité des marchés financiers’ annual report on corporate governance and executive remuneration, which offers an in-depth analysis of compliance with the French governance code, AFEP-MEDEF.

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    French tax authorities seek €356 million from Booking.com

    2016-06-06T10:15:00Z

    French tax authorities are seeking €356 million (approximately US$404 million) from Booking.com, a unit of online hotel reservation company Priceline Group, to recover what they claim are unpaid income taxes and value-added taxes, the company disclosed in a quarterly report.

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    Blog

    French nay on pay-cut

    2016-05-27T15:45:00Z

    The controversy over Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn’s (pictured above) 2015 €7.2 million remuneration likely sparked revisions to France’s rules on compensation—including making say-on-pay mandatory and strengthening transparency rules. But so far, says Global Glimpses writer Paul Hodgson, Renault has no plans to change Ghosn’s compensation.

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    France introduces anti-corruption bill

    2016-04-21T14:30:00Z

    France’s Finance Minister Michel Sapin introduced a proposed anti-corruption bill, Sapin II, to the French government last month that in many respects is inspired by anti-corruption laws already in place in the United States and United Kingdom. The bill, for example, “provides for the offense of corruptly influencing a foreign ...

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    Loyalty shares v. one share – one vote: The Florange Act

    2016-03-29T15:45:00Z

    France will experience a sea change in voting rights next month with the passage of the Florange Act. Adopted in 2014, the Act provides for the automatic granting of double-voting rights to stock held by shareholders for at least two years in a row. Rients Abma, executive director of Eumedion, ...