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The French State's use of intellectual services provided by consultancy firms
This report is the first to be published by the Court of Accounts following the citizen consultation platform launched in 2022 (https://participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr/). The second citizen participation campaign will run from Wednesday, 6 September to Friday, 6 October 2023 and will be extended ... View publication 22 Documents
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Advanced practice nurses
In response to the challenges posed by difficulties in accessing general practitioners and the increase in chronic pathologies due to the ageing of the population, the French legislature introduced the concept of “advanced practice” for paramedical professions, following a consultation process that ... View publication 22 Documents
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The situation and outlook for public finances
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... View publication 22 Documents
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French state aid to lebanon since 2020
Since 2019, Lebanon's difficulties have been compounded by a multifaceted political, economic, financial, and social crisis. The day after the explosion in the port of Beirut on 5 August 2020, the President of the French Republic expressed the solidarity of the French nation and launched an aid oper... View publication 22 Documents
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France’s airport network
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... View publication 22 Documents
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State-subsidised private education
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... View publication 22 Documents
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Public service missions of La Poste Group
The flash audit published today concerns the public service missions entrusted to the main French postal service, La Poste. At a time when the amount of state funding for these services has risen sharply, this report is intended to provide guidance to the negotiators of the 2023-2027 service contrac... View publication 22 Documents
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Mandate of the UN : release of the first external audit report
The @United Nations has released the first external audit report led by the Court of accounts as part of its new mandate as external auditor of the UN. The Board of Auditors' report focuses on peacekeeping operations. It contains 16 recommendations. COUR DES COMPTES -
The national artificial intelligence research strategy
Artificial intelligence (AI), which aims to reproduce human intelligence by using computers and mathematics, emerged in the 1950s, influenced in particular by the work of Alan Turing. According to the OECD, AI start-ups attracted nearly 12% of global private equity in the first half of 2018, up from... View publication 22 Documents
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Child psychiatry
In the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), about 13% of children and adolescents have at least one mental disorder, i.e. a condition that affects mental health and can take many different forms and expressions. Although the lack of data on the Frenc... View publication 22 Documents
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