without that laidoff employees are compensatedA thrill that begins to resemble a renaissanceHome does not hesitate to revisit its heritageAnd for now society is still subscribed to the lean regimeAvishai Cohen and Goran Bregovic Sunday eveningFind our folder on the Clearstream trial onBut I want to be able to listen as I wantAdidas and Puma should follow in his footstepsThe vaccine should be available midOctoberThe ISP should however stop supply of Fund of fundsPoitiers will remain with the smallest regional capital Dijon. "This statement out of the mouth of one of the politicians most the poitevin Seraglio is doubly incorrect. First because the urban area is credited to the best of 200,000 inhabitants, considerably less than his counterpart Burgundian, and because the town itself, which said that the number of inhabitants would be sufficient to complete the stage of France, counts 87,000 citizens, either more Châlons-en-Champagne or Ajaccio.
It prevents: Poitiers appears at the bottom of the regional capitals platoon. Yet, the city of Haut-Poitou does lack not assets, including geographically, place of passage on the threshold between Paris and Aquitaine basins "door in the South for the people of the North, is from North to South", wrote Jean-Luc Terradillos, editor of the journal "Actualité Poitou-Charentes". Three times played here the future of the France, when Clovis pushes the Visigoths in 507, Charles Martel the Saracens in 732 and when King John the good is taken prisoner by the English in 1356.
"Lack of ambition"
"Poitiers is not a true regional capital." "It is not leader in its region, but one of the others that are La Rochelle, Angoulême or Niort", Sonny Jean-Yves Chamard, UMP MP. The explanation is that the city has ignored the industrial revolution, Châtellerault unlike its neighbour, preferring to draper in the reputation of the University, one of the oldest in Europe since created in 1432, is unanimously accepted. Certainly the Pompidou years brought a few companies like Schlumberger, Dassault, Michelin just cease production but the effort has been insufficient and especially without the following day, judge today the right wing opposition, which does not lack an opportunity to in question the policy of the Socialist Mayor Jacques Santrot, figure tutelary of local political life.
"It's a city that failed ambitions during the past 20 years with Tours, Limoges and La Rochelle." It was won by the withdrawal itself. "Santrot gave more weight to the neighbourhoods to the ambitions of the city", provides Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Senator of the Vienna watches jealously over local networks. The former President of the region and the Prime Minister wants to evidence the project of business district from the station out of Earth and is scheduled to open in 2009. For the opposition, the economic field has been left fallow. "The Mayor must be the first Ambassador of the city, or Santrot is not, it is the major criticism that can make him" judge the young opponent UMP in City Council, Olivier Coussi. Business leaders take a more careful but hardly different speech.
These accusations and criticisms obviously have the gift to get out of its hinges person, renowned for his fits of anger. "Economic development, it is of Community competence, is not the work of the city. Areas of activity are full, the firms settle. There is that those who do not want to see who do not see! ", like the aedile, broken since almost thirty years to circumvent these traits. "Châtellerault was an industrial and economic culture strong, this is not the case here. This comes not from Santrot but the poitevin economic fabric. "Here, the patterns are heads of establishment, steps of decision makers, or in SMEs with a local or regional market then," adds Jean-François Macarius, Deputy Mayor and Vice-President of the Regional Council. "There is a kind of Division of roles: General Council brought businesses and the city hosts", adds this faithful of Ségolène Royal, which itself shows little or awkwardly of inclination for business leaders.
Social laboratory
"Certainly the city never succeeded in attracting the companies, but it benefits from the pension situation that earned it its capital position, with the presence of multiple administrations and services of the region and the state appellate court, administrative court, University, CHU." "It remains safe from the crisis", temper Dominique Breillat, political scientist and former Dean of the Faculty of law. Approximately 90 of the active population just is indeed occupied in the tertiary sector, sociological data which the Mayor seized to build skillfully, for nearly 30 years, a social policy unanimously hailed but that only flat, would be costly.
"Unquestionably, the neighbourhoods of the city are more attractive than before his arrival", should be Jean-Yves Chamard. Since 1978 have been set up of development councils in areas in difficulty. Voluntary work is omnipresent with some 850 identified associations. "Poitiers social laboratory." It's a little pretentious but true. "Neighbourhoods are soothed Santrot policy because, besides the FN is very low here," commented Alain Claeys, MP PS, presented as the dauphin of the Mayor. "The balance we have to defend, it is a city that creates wealth from the social and the quality of life", said Jean-François Macarius, another potential pretender to the position of Chief Magistrate. "It is sometimes difficult to attract executives, including the lack of available positions for spouses, especially if they are themselves senior executives, but when"
It is, we are keeping! ", said Pierre Guénant, who chairs the CESR and the West-Atlantic association, referring to the quality of life.Difficult to escape the University in this city where the ratio of students to the population is highest in France. The figures speak for themselves: 25.250 students (including 15 of foreigners), 2,500 employees including 1,500 researchers and teachers, external stakeholders 1,600, 50 research labs, consolidated a budget of EUR 152 million. The direction of the University estimated that EUR 300 million economic impact on the metropolitan area and between 3,000 and 4,000 the number of induced jobs. Yet this multidisciplinary University has found amputee some 6,000 students when was created in 1992 to La Rochelle, "a gift of François Mitterrand to Michel Crépeau," slides close to Jean-Pierre Raffarin. "It is true, this was felt to be damning, but now the relations eased", provides Jean-Pierre Gesson, President of the University.
A potential exploit
"The University is our most important economic asset." It is a motherboard. We have a global network in many disciplines. "We need to work on targeted developments because cannot be excellent everywhere: the life sciences, those technologies at the pole of competitiveness mobility and advanced transportation (MTA), and the industry of knowledge", insists Alain Claeys. Except that the links with the economic world seem always well tenuous. "Poitiers is a university town with many research labs." "Companies use perhaps not enough local resources", admits Didier Georget, boss of the Medef in the region. There is a pole bio health, but he limping. "It remains to organize." "In this area, there is a large potential to operate", relativizes Jean-Pierre Gesson, which also admits that the implemented incubator in place in 2000 only hosts not enough companies. "It has failed to take advantage of this great grey matter." "Beware, the train pass not twice", warns Dominique Hummel, the Executive pattern of the Futuroscope theme park.
"UFO" of Monory
The man knows whereof he speaks, and is probably better placed to measure the benefits of the synergies between university research and the world of business. Because beyond the number of visitors to the amusement park (1.5 million in 2005, but the equipment is still not profitable), the undeniable success of the "UFO" by René Monory there is a quarter of a century to be assessed primarily in terms of the attraction of the site, located at the North doors of the Communauté d ' agglomération de Poitiers (Cape), over the high-tech world. Ten years ago, the only amusement park represented two-thirds of jobs in the site, against a third party only today the 6.350 total jobs. The rest is divided between the research and SMEs. "Without Monory and its Futuroscope, it would at the level of Limoges!", provides Françoise Vilain, Director of the ICC. "It is an initiative which has put out its rurality Poitiers." "There is now a fascination of the world, especially Asia, Futuroscope", enthuses Dominique Hummel, which saw four generations of businesses settle here: first relocation of proximity, then those of the greater West, finally centres calls since the early years 2000, and more recently the tertiary with for example the Chinese ZTE.
The General Council, owner of the Futuroscope, is the first to welcome this success resulted in closer to the University of world economy. "That would be the image of without the Futuroscope Poitiers", don't dare think Senator UMP Alain Fouché, who succeeded René Monory at the head of the Department. It is true that the Vienna has not homework on how, investing in the Park a little less than 400 million euros as well as the University. During the last two contracts of plan, the General Council says that it has invested 112 million euros, almost as much as the State and more than the region (71 million). "Never the Department have established as much money in the University if he did not want to transfer to the Futuroscope, such as the Ensma," grumbles Jacques Santrot before these figures.
Would in reality, neither the Mayor nor anyone else at Poitiers not think to question this site become a poitevin emblem on the side of roman art. Some dream already that the pole of competitiveness MTA, based at the Futuroscope, and who seeks to rely on the companies in the automotive sector in the region (Heuliez, Magnetti-Marelli, Saft, Valeo, etc) and on schools of prestigious engineers as the Ensma, he brings a new impetus. Dominique Hummel asked that the city is more involved. "Should consider a partnership to three: City, Department, and Futuroscope", he suggests. In this city of tradition radical-socialiste, often taunted by actions of the new President of the region roughly, the idea should not be difficult to be shared by the new team which will arrive at the commands in 2008. At a little more than a year of survival, the opposition is struggling to find his future flagship. "This is more to find the best successor to Jacques Santrot to lead a right-left battle", believes Jean-Pierre Raffarin.
