Publications

Against comparable European countries, France experienced a faster rate of deindustrialisation between 2000 and 2010. Following the Gallois report in 2012, France gradually changed its strategy. The actions taken have come in a variety of forms, with contrasting results in 2024. Against this backdro...

Emergency departments within public or private healthcare facilities provide continuous care for all patients requiring urgent treatment, including those with psychiatric conditions. Emergency medicine is defined by the provision of care within the first 24 hours of a patient’s arrival and is not de...

The Court of Accounts has published the second part of its annual report on local government finances. In the first pamphlet, published last July, the Court noted that while 2022 had been a very favourable year, 2023 saw a general deterioration in the financial position of local authorities. In this...

Created in France in 1791, inheritance tax imposes a charge on the net inheritance received by each heir, depending on their relationship to the deceased. Misunderstood and unpopular with the French, inheritance tax is viewed favourably by economic theory because of its redistributive function. It h...

Between 2017 and 2023, 271 international organisations and multilateral funds received French public funding. France makes three types of contribution to multilateral entities: contributions to the budgets of international organisations, contributions to trust or concessional funds and equity invest...

Over the years, some of the knowledge acquired by doctors during their initial training becomes partially outdated, and this is all the more the case today as it is put to the test by numerous technological, diagnostic and therapeutic developments. Updating the knowledge of healthcare professionals ...

The Court of Accounts certifies with reservations the 2023 accounts of four of the five benefit branches of the general scheme, as well as those of the collection activity. It is unable to certify the 2023 accounts of the family branch (CAF network) and CNAF. In fact, the amount of errors not correc...

The Court of Accounts published its report on the State budget in 2023. The State budget deficit will be €173.0bn in 2023, the highest level ever recorded after 2020 (€178.1bn), a year marked by the Covid crisis. Expenditure remained at a very high level, as the initial Finance Act did not provide f...

Between 2017 and mid-2023, more than €3 billion in government funding was committed to the cultural sector outside the budget of the ministry of culture, which is almost equivalent to one year’s funding for the ministry’s cultural mission. On an unprecedented scale, these exceptional appropriations ...

At the request of the Senate Finance Committee, against the backdrop of an unprecedented rise in issuing times for identity cards and passports, the Court of Accounts has carried out an investigation entitled “The issuance of identity and driving documents: A crisis in the process of being resolved,...