Publications

The pass Culture scheme has been a priority policy of the ministry of culture since 2017. Following trials in a number of departments, the pass Culture scheme was rolled out to all 18 year-olds throughout France in 2021, then extended to 15-17 year-olds in 2022. It provides beneficiaries with an ind...

The Territoires d'Industrie Programme was launched in 2018 by the government to set up a cooperative framework to support industry outside metropolitan areas, around small and medium-sized towns and in rural areas. These areas are home to a large number of companies and production units, with a prop...

Spread across three oceans, the French overseas territories, despite their legal, demographic, cultural, economic and social heterogeneity, are faced with common difficulties, such as unemployment and poverty rates that are systematically higher than in mainland France. Training students and the dev...

Saving for retirement allows you to save during your working life so that you have the resources to supplement the sums paid by compulsory pension schemes. In the years leading up to the Pacte Act of 22 February 2019, the French supplementary pension landscape was marked by a low level of subscripti...

At a time of crisis in the teaching profession, causing difficulties in recruitment, replacement and retention, the human resources function of the Ministry of National Education, the largest employer in the State, is crucial. Education accounts for the largest share of the national budget (€87 bill...

The 2019 law on the transformation of the civil service sought to modernise and simplify social dialogue in the three branches of the civil service: modernise by making it possible to conclude collective agreements, simplify by reducing the number of social bodies in order to lighten the procedures ...

“For the maintenance of the public force, and for administrative expenses, a general tax is indispensable; it must be equally distributed among all citizens, in proportion to their ability to pay” (Article 13 of the French Declaration of Human and Civil Rights of 26 August 1789). Together with equal...

Building permits, an everyday tool in urban planning, serve as a barometer for a number of sectors: the construction sector, the implementation of policies to promote ecological transition and changes in taxation. The focus adopted by the financial jurisdictions in this investigation is on the quali...

French law on persons with disabilities does not make the funding of accommodation conditional on its location within the country. Slightly more than 7,000 adults were accommodated in Wallonia in 2022. This observation led the French Court of Accounts to undertake a specific investigation into the i...

A measure available to young people from the age of 15, the Universal National Service (SNU), was tested in 13 departments in 2019, before being rolled out nationwide. Its gradual extension, originally intended to result in an extension to an entire age group by 2024, was severely disrupted by the h...