Publications

The increase in the number of disabled people aged over 50 is a major phenomenon. Between 2011 and 2019, the number of recipients of the disabled adult allowance (AAH) aged over 50 rose by 55 %. These figures are the result of a combination of the advancing age of the post-war generations and the si...

The Court of Accounts was interviewed on 18 July by the Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP) monitoring delegation of the French National Assembly’s Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education. This hearing follows the submission to Parliament of a supplementary report on the organisation of the 2024 ...

Article L. 210-1 of France’s Environmental Code emphasises that “the protection of water, its promotion and the development of usable resources, while respecting natural balances, are issues of general interest”. To ensure the protection of this heritage, public policy must maintain the proper funct...

In 2022, with a public deficit of 4.7 points of GDP and a debt of 111.8 points of GDP, €575bn higher than in 2019, France’s public finances are still marked by the crises that have affected the country since 2020 and the measures that have been taken to mitigate their effects. As is the case every y...

In 2019, there were 73 airports in mainland France. Out of those, 41 received between 10,000 and 3 million commercial passengers in the same year. This report deals with the specific situation of this category of infrastructure, the intermediate size airports, whose traffic levels exceed those of lo...

On 23 June 2016, when asked by referendum: “Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?”, the British people voted by a majority of 51.89% of the votes cast in favour of leaving. Following a long phase of negotiations, the United Kingdom left the Euro...

Public risk management covers a wide range of issues, organisational methods and actions relating to the State and local authorities. It differs from crisis management, which is required once the risks have occurred; here, it is necessary to implement mitigation measures and reaction capabilities in...

By the end of the 1990s, the diagnosis of the handicaps holding back Corsica's development had been established several decades earlier. However, the measures proposed to remedy the situation, in terms of infrastructure and community facilities, had not been implemented. Launched in 2002, the Except...

The collection of compulsory levies (taxes, social security contributions) for public administrations (the State and its public establishments, social security bodies and local authorities) is mainly the responsibility of businesses. They are involved in two ways: not only are they liable for certai...

At the start of the 2022 school year, there were more than 2 million pupils, or 17.6% of the total number of school enrolments in France, enrolled in state-subsidised private education in just over 7,500 establishments. Created by the law of 31 December 1959, known as the Debré Law, the system of st...