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The University of Reunion has opened two nap rooms, each equipped with four convertible armchairs., end of October. They are located in the university libraries of Moufia and Le Tampon and accessible on presentation of the student card, pour une durée maximale d'une heure. Les étudiants qui souhaitent faire une pause se voient remettre un drap et la...

The latest financial situation note from the Issuing Institute of Overseas Departments on credit rates in Reunion highlights the stability of the average rate of equipment loans between April and July 2021 : 1,65%, i.e. 43 basis points above the rate observed at the national level. These credits are, for almost all, subscribed at a fixed rate,...

As part of the Recovery Plan, the government supports recycling operations of wastelands and artificial land, by favoring operations which concern areas where the cessation of activity has been brutal and the decontamination of former industrial sites, housing or natural areas. The Ministry of Ecological Transition recently selected 16 overseas projects, dont 5...

If the agricultural unions made common cause with Tereos Indian Ocean in the motion addressed to the State at the beginning of November, they remain focused on an important deadline : that of the renegotiation of the cane convention. The text, the last version of which dates back to 2017, fixe la règle du jeu entre les producteurs de cannes à sucre et celui...

Planters and industrialists have temporarily buried the ax of war, le temps de signer une motion commune demandant à l’Etat des garanties quant à son soutien à la filière canne-sucre réunionnaise. Le texte a été remis au préfet le 5 novembre. Il est signé par les présidents du Syndicat du Sucre, représentants les industriels, de la Chambre d’agriculture et...

Last October 27, Huguette Bello had convened an exceptional plenary meeting of the Regional Council to study in depth the file of the New Coastal Road (NRL) and solutions to complete a project that will soon be at a standstill, lack of sufficient materials. The president of the Region had announced it three weeks earlier : the...

Last August 17, Air Austral and Corsair jointly announced the initiation of discussions “in order to conclude a commercial cooperation agreement” on routes between the metropolis and the Indian Ocean, without specifying the content of this reconciliation. The two companies only mentioned “the pooling of resources and the implementation of synergies”,...

The Reunion economy managed to overcome the tightening of health restriction measures in the 2nd quarter, estimates INSEE. After a decline in April and May, the volume of paid working hours increases again in June and July and is above the 2019 level. Salaried employment increases sharply compared to the previous quarter : + 1,1...

Household consumer prices fell by 0,4% between July and September in Reunion, indicates INSEE, who was unable to measure them in August due to confinement. Prices of manufactured goods fall by 1,2% over two months, due in particular to a sharp drop (-8,1%) des prix de l’habillement en lien avec les soldes...

Eight Reunion projects were selected as part of the 4th call for projects in favor of public transport on its own site and multimodal exchange hubs. In total, 162 projects in France will benefit from 900 million euros in subsidies within this framework. The 8 Reunion projects will obtain total funding of 51 million euros. Le projet...