Eva Joly
Acting
Biography
Eva Joly, born Gro Eva Farseth on December 5, 1943, in Oslo, Norway, is a Franco-Norwegian magistrate and politician. She is known for her commitment to the fight against corruption and her remarkable career in the judicial and political spheres. Eva Joly grew up in a modest family in Oslo. At the age of 20, she left Norway to settle in France, where she worked as an au pair while pursuing her law studies. She earned a law degree and a postgraduate diploma in political science from Panthéon-Assas University. In 1981, she passed an exceptional entrance exam for the National School for the Judiciary, explaining: "There was no general knowledge test, and that suited me." That same year, at the age of 38, she was appointed deputy public prosecutor at the Orléans High Court. In 1989, she was seconded to the Interministerial Committee for Industrial Restructuring (CIRI), an organization attached to the Ministry of Economy and Finance, which supports struggling companies in disaster areas. She became the first Deputy Secretary General not to have graduated from the École nationale d'administration (ENA). She is also an auditor at the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale, where she taught in 1996. Appointed in 1990 as an investigating judge in the financial division of the Paris courthouse, she investigated high-profile cases, such as the one opposing Bernard Tapie to Crédit Lyonnais. She was then assigned the Bidermann case, which led via Elf-Gabon to the Elf affair, which she investigated with Laurence Vichnievsky. On July 5, 1996, Eva Joly had Loïk Le Floch-Prigent, former CEO of Elf Aquitaine and current President of SNCF, imprisoned. She then opened the files on the Taiwan frigates affair and the Dumas-Deviers-Joncour affair. In April 1998, she indicted Roland Dumas, President of the Constitutional Council, who was forced to resign. In March 2009, Eva Joly was called upon by the Icelandic government to serve as a special advisor in an investigation into possible financial crime that may have exacerbated the country's financial crisis. In 2009, Eva Joly was elected as a Member of the European Parliament on the Europe Écologie Les Verts list. She chairs the European Parliament's Development Committee and is distinguished by her expertise in financial flows and economic crime. In 2012, she was a candidate in the French presidential election. Eva Joly has also worked for the Norwegian government and the World Bank, contributing her expertise in the fight against corruption. In 2012, she called for the opening of military archives and the lifting of military secrecy "on nuclear tests in the sub-Saharan region and in Polynesia" in the 1950s and 1960s. After 2015, she joined the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT). She is the author of several books and continues to be consulted internationally for her expertise.
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The show features an interview with a famous personality from the world of politics, economics or culture.
L'Invité
Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway. Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."
Skavlan
Tax Wars takes viewers behind-the-scenes of a global effort to put people before profits, hold multinationals accountable, and demand the world’s most powerful corporations pay their fair share of tax.
Tax Wars
Zambia's copper resources have not made the country rich. Virtually all Zambia's copper mines are owned by corporations. In the last ten years, they've extracted copper worth $29 billion but Zambia is still ranked one of the twenty poorest countries in the world. So why hasn't copper wealth reduced poverty in Zambia? Once again it comes down to the issue of tax, or in Zambia's case, tax avoidance and the use of tax havens. Tax avoidance by corporations costs poor countries and estimated $160 billion a year, almost double what they receive in international aid. That's enough to save the lives of 350,000 children aged five or under every year. For every $1 given in aid to a poor country, $10 drains out. Vital money that could help a poor country pay for healthcare, schools, pensions and infrastructure. Money that would make them less reliant on aid.
Stealing Africa
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Elf, une affaire d'État
Welcome to the enchanted world of capital evasion. The keys to fortune: knowing how to hide, find accomplices and take advantage of all the flaws. The rest of us mere mortals are left with austerity policies and the joy of living in an increasingly unequal world... How far will predators go in this widespread plundering of our economies? How is the political staff complicit? How are we braking? Between Paris and Geneva, Washington and Luxembourg, from Société Générale to HSBC, via Mac Donald, Ikea and Google ... we will track down the circuits of tax evasion and decipher the mechanisms of tax fraud.
Tax Me If You Can
François Hollande, François Bayrou, Christiane Taubira, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Arlette Laguiller, Jean-Marie Le Pen... reveal the driving forces behind their strategies, recount their joys and doubts, and talk about the exhilaration of popular jubilation and the harshness of an exhausting marathon—the adrenaline, the staging, the blows that are dealt and received, the hopes of victory and, in the end, more often than not, defeat. Through the testimonies of eighteen former candidates, "big" and "small," who participated in the Elysée competition between 1969 and 2012, this documentary directed by Jean-Baptiste Péretié reveals the human and political comedy of the presidential elections, the great theater of the conquest of power.
Moi, candidat
The young French environmentalist and Member of the European Parliament Yannick Jadot wonders how the wounded nuclear beast might still have a bright future ahead after Fukushima. A few weeks after this terrible accident, and while there is no time to lose, Yannick Jadot negotiates at the European Parliament for better security for the most nuclearized continent on the planet, whereas the majority political parties try to rationalize this extraordinary event. At the same time, the young deputy is an advisor to Eva Joly, the candidate for the presidential primary in the Ecologist party. They try to make visible and audible the necessity to abandon the atom during the campaign for the French presidential elections. But very soon he finds himself caught up in the spiral of events, strategy, polls and fake alliances.