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Le nombre de demandeurs d’emploi tenus d’en rechercher un et sans activité (category A) a baissé de 1,4% au 3ème trimestre et de 5,3% sur un an, according to the latest official figures. Il s’établissait en moyenne à 128 450 inscrits à Pôle Emploi. La baisse est moins significative en incluant les chômeurs qui ont malgré tout exercé une activité...

Ibrahim Patel could count on an easy reappointment to his position as president of the CCI Réunion, on November 24 during the first plenary assembly of the mandate. At the end of the consular elections organized for the first time online from October 27 to November 9, sa liste a emporté les 16 sièges du collège Services et les...

Les travaux d’extension du périmètre irrigué du Bras de la Plaine ont débuté fin octobre sur la commune de Petite-Île. 377 hectares supplémentaires seront équipés dans les secteurs de Mont-Vert et d’Anse-les-Hauts, grâce à la mise en place de 37 km de canalisations, d’une station de pompage de 350 litres/seconde et d’un réservoir de 4 000 m³. 115 bornes...

The prefecture published at the beginning of November the first delivery of the price monitoring barometer of around sixty consumer products, which will thus be followed every two weeks until the end of the year. This tool, the implementation of which was entrusted to the company Sagis, vient compléter les mesures mensuelles de l’Insee et vise à...

Daaf recently updated the key figures for the Reunion agri-food industry, with 2018 data. This remains the first pillar of local industry : it represents 6% of the added value produced in Reunion, compared to 4% in mainland France, 45% of turnover and 38% of jobs in the manufacturing sector. L’industrie agroalimentaire regroupe 352 établissements dont 2 appartenant...

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, the time to sign a joint motion asking the State for guarantees regarding its support for the Reunion cane-sugar sector. The text was submitted to the prefect on November 5. It is signed by the presidents of the Sugar Union, industrial representatives, de la Chambre d’agriculture et...