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La Poste
La Poste group, France’s second-largest public sector employer with over 250,000 employees, operates across a variety of fields (banking, postal services, parcels delivery, mobile telephony, etc.), including through subsidiaries in France and abroad. La Poste delivers a public service throughout the...
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La Poste
La Poste group, France’s second-largest public sector employer with over 250,000 employees, operates across a variety of fields (banking, postal services, parcels delivery, mobile telephony, etc.), including through subsidiaries in France and abroad. La Poste delivers a public service throughout ...
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History
The Cour des comptes is an emanation of the curia regis, the king’s court. In the Middle Ages, it was convened in the sovereign’s residence, on the Ile de la Cité, in Paris, a building which is now the law courts and Sainte-Chapelle. History The construction of the Palais Cambon The present-day Hi... -
Presentation
La Cour des comptes a pour mission de s'assurer du bon emploi de l'argent public et d'en informer les citoyens (selon l'article 47-2 de la Constitution). Juridiction indépendante, la Cour des comptes se situe à équidistance du Parlement et du Gouvernement, qu’elle assiste l’un et l’autre. Lorsque ... -
General Prosecutor
Véronique Hamayon is the General Prosecutor of the Cour des comptes since 11th of October 2024. She graduated from the École Nationale d’Administration (ENA). The duties of the General Prosecutor Véronique Hamayon's Biography Véronique Hamayon was born on July 13, 1960 The duties of the Gener... -
Policy for establishing new farmers and transferring farms
There were more than 2.5 million farmers in France in 1955, but today there are only 496,000 left, according to the 2020 Agricultural Census. As a corollary to this trend, the number of farms in mainland France is falling, to around 389,000 in 2020 – almost 800,000 fewer than in 1980. Every year sin...
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Employment shortages: the case of jura’s landmark production sectors
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...
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Value Added Tax (VAT), a tax to be refocused on its objective of generating revenue for public finances
Value Added Tax (VAT) is a general consumption tax charged directly to customers on the goods they consume or the services they use in France. The substantial changes in its budgetary and legal framework, as well as recent developments in the economic situation, marked by the health crisis, the ener...
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Support for exports of military equipment
The desire for strategic independence and the narrowness of the domestic defence market, combined with the need to build solid military cooperation, have led France to develop an ambitious military equipment export policy. This strategy is part of an international context marked by higher volumes of...
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Employee vocational training
Vocational training is a process of acquiring the knowledge and skills required in specific occupations or, more broadly, on the job market. The law of 5 September 2018 on the freedom to choose a professional future profoundly changed the mechanisms and, more generally, the very landscape of vocatio...
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