Gabon striker Daniel Cousin has returned home to play for FC Sapins to boost his chance of playing at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.
The French government also proposed in early June in a bill currently under discussion at the French Parliament (the "Loi Sapin II") to introduce a binding Say on Pay in the French Commercial Code.
On the very day that Mr Sapin confessed to France's breach, the European Commission's president, Jean-Claude Juncker, gave Pierre Moscovici, Mr Sapin's predecessor, the job of economics commissioner in charge of…enforcing the euro's deficit rules (see Charlemagne).
A spokesman for the European commission declined to respond to Sapin's remarks.
Her presence will doubtless also delight the followers of the soap opera that has been the president's life in recent months.Arguably the most important appointment is Mr Sapin's move to finance, a return to a post he held between 1992 and 1993 under François Mitterrand.
The heart of the negotiation, Mr. Sapin said, is to build more trust between unions and companies, to reduce "the culture of conflict" and create a more cooperative and flexible system, as in Germany, one that will allow for more "partial unemployment" in difficult times.
Several female politicians had referred to the Sapin case since Baupin stepped down.
On December 9, 2016, France enacted the Law on Transparency, Fight against Corruption and Modernization of Economic Life (Loi relatif à la transparence, à la lutte contre la corruption et à la modernisation de la vie économique, referred to as "Sapin II," after Finance Minister Michel Sapin, who presented the legislation).
Sapin II is intended to be preventive in nature, but it definitely has teeth.
Why: The piney-tasting liqueur is "a great alternative to Chartreuse", but was actually first created as a low-sugar, higher-alcohol version of the Sapins for confectioners to use in baking.
