To improve the provision of information to Parliament, since 2019 the Court of Accounts has presented its annual report on local government finances in two stages. In the first part, published in July 2022, the Court analysed the situation of local governments as at 31 December 2021, after a year ma...
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At the request of the Senate Finance Committee, the Court of Accounts has initiated a reflection on scenarios for the funding of local governments. This investigation comes at a time when the abolition of the housing tax on main residences and the reduction in production taxes have profoundly altere...
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Sport policy, which has all the characteristics of a public service mission based on the no-tion of general interest, falls under the general jurisdiction of the Central Government. However, this jurisdiction is shared and there is a plurality of stakeholders in the govern-ance of sport, as provided...
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In the context of the Court of Accounts’ mission of assistance provided for by Article 58-2 of the Organic Act on Budget Acts (LOLF), the Senate’s Social Affairs Committee asked the Court of Accounts to produce a report on the reform of the 100% Santé health insurance scheme.
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With a public deficit of 6.4% of GDP in 2021, i.e., more than double that of 2017, and a public debt of more than 110% of GDP, France is emerging from the health crisis with one of the most deteriorated public finance situations in the euro area. The report published today by the Court of Accounts i...
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The Court of Accounts has published its 2021 Central Government Budget Report, accompanied by 64 budget performance analyses. The year 2021 was marked by significant central government interventions, particularly due to the ongoing health crisis and the ramping up of the recovery plan. On the other ...
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The Court issues a qualified opinion on the 2021 financial statements of the five branches of the general social security system - including, for the first time, the newly-created 5th autonomy branch - and declines to certify the 2021 financial statements of the contributions collection (URSSAF netw...
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The repeated social tensions - linked in particular to employment, inequality and insecurity - that the overseas territories experienced between 2006 and 2009, then again in 2017 in French Guiana and 2018 in Mayotte and Reunion, underline the continued, even worsening, economic and social vulnerabil...
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The health crisis of 2020 led to an 8% contraction in French GDP - the largest since 1946 implemented a €100bn recovery plan (of which €39.4bn should be paid for by the European Union), with the aim of rapidly returning to pre-crisis levels of economic activity and contributing to the transformation...
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Estimated at 2.5 million in 2015, the population of dependent older people could reach 4 million by 2050. Despite the desire of French authorities to promote a “shift towards home”, établissements d’hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes (Ehpads, “residential establishments for dependent elder...
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