Publications

In 2022, the Court of Accounts held its first public consultation to gather proposals for investigations to enrich its work programme. Following nearly 9,000 registrations and 333 online contributions, six topics were investigated in 2023. The detection of personal tax fraud is the fourth citizen-dr...

In France, the public service is made up of all permanent and contract staff working in one of three branches: the State public service (FPE), the local public service (FPT) and the  hospital public service (FPH). Since the overhaul of the general framework between 1983 and 1986, a number of legisla...

In his general policy speech on 15 July 2020, the Prime Minister called for the introduction “in the regions, of local judges to deal with everyday incivilities”. Since the usual procedures for recruiting and training judicial staff did not make it possible to respond to this decision in a short spa...

While France has recently adopted a possible warming scenario of around 2°C by 2050, in that same year the country could have 7.2 million inhabitants aged between 75 and 84, i.e. 75% more than today. As such, the objective of “living better at home”, in addition to efforts to combat global warming, ...

In the first part of its annual report on local government finances, published on 4 July this year, the Court of Accounts showed that local authorities as a whole were in a very favourable financial position in 2022, as they had been the previous year. In this second report, the Court points out tha...

The Regional Express Network (RER) has grown steadily since the 1970s, marking a turning point in transport services in the Île-de-France region. Given the scale of the impact on passengers, reliability, frequency and passenger information are key issues for this network. The five RER lines are oper...

The French hospital system is made up of public and private acute hospitals. At the end of 2020, out of 2,989 establishments, there were 1,347 public hospitals, 972 private for-profit and 670 private not-for-profit establishments, the majority of which were public-interest private healthcare establi...

On the eve of the covid-19 epidemic, the overall financial position of public hospitals appeared to be deteriorating, with recurring losses (€558 million in 2019). Two investment plans, Hôpital 2007 and Hôpital 2012, had led to a tripling of financial debt to €30 billion in 2019. The interest burden...

For over twenty years, the prison population has been rising steadily, reaching an all-time high of 73,000 by the end of 2022. This places France among the ten European countries in which the prison population is increasing. The majority of inmates are young men with social and medical vulnerabiliti...

In addition to its well-developed agri-food and tourism sectors, the French department of Jura has a dense network of small and medium-sized businesses in the aeronautics, metal, plastics, timber, construction and eyewear industries. These companies are facing major recruitment difficulties, which a...