Publications

The Court of Accounts publishes its first report of the year devoted to the overall state of public finances after two difficult years. For the second consecutive year, the public deficit worsened in 2024, reaching almost €175 billion, or 6.0 percentage points of GDP, after 5.5 points in 2023 and 4.

The State is responsible for the reception, accommodation and integration of foreign nationals. The General Directorate for Foreign Nationals (DGEF) of the ministry of the interior is responsible for steering this policy. In the execution of its mandate, it relies mainly on a public administrative i...

A new legal form of philanthropy created by the Economic Modernisation Act (2008), endowment funds have enjoyed growing success (several thousand funds have been set up over the past 15 years) thanks to the flexibility of the rules governing their creation, governance and operation. Following an ini...

In September 2017, in a report commissioned by the Prime Minister, economist Jean Pisani-Ferry considered that France was suffering from a number of structural weaknesses, including a lack of skills among its working population. He felt that this was preventing us from meeting the major economic cha...

Designated by the President of the Republic in 2017 and 2022 as a "Great National Cause", gender equality policy has been the subject of several high points, including the presentation of the "All Equal" plan in March 2023. This report highlights the differences in the life paths of women and men th...

The Mediterranean coast is an area of high socio-environmental tensions, home to almost 3.3 million people. The management of this territory, shaped by the State before the decentralising laws and then by the intervention of local authorities, is now being called into question. The local authorities...

Released in August 2021 and open to the general public in 2023, "Gérer mes biens immobiliers" (GMBI - manage my real estate assets) is a new application from the tax authorities designed to modernise both the declaration of property owned in France and the management of property and planning tax dec...

At the dawn of the new millennium, the European Union adopted the Lisbon Strategy, aimed at making the European economy "the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world". Since then, support for research has played an important role in the Union's strategy, although this has no...

Social assistance policies are primarily characterised by the payment of minimum social benefits (more than €30 billion in 2024). Since 2015, the financial jurisdictions have been working on the main monetary social benefits. However, these benefits are not always enough to provide a lasting solutio...

At the request of the National Finance Committee of the National Assembly, the Court examined the impact of recent local tax reforms on local taxpayers, households and businesses, local authorities, as well as the State and public finances as a whole. These reforms were implemented with objectives u...