Banque de France, a unique institution wholly owned by the French state, is part of the Eurosystem. Accordingly, it issues banknotes and circulates them within French territory, maintains paper money and ensures that it is circulated effectively. It holds the nation's foreign currency reserves and e...
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On 30 April 2015, the Cour des comptes issued a public report devoted to the Institut de france and the five academies: remarkable assets, a lack of robust management. Between 2005 and 2013, the Cour des Comptes issued a public report on the management of the Institut de France, the Académie Françai...
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The Cour des comptes is releasing a report devoted to housing in the Île-de-France region. The Cour notes the limits of the policies carried out over the last two decades in three major areas: development, which governs and determines the production of housing units, social housing and private housi...
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Our school system requires an extensive overhaul if all students are to succeed. In its May 2013 report, the Cour des comptes showed that changing how we manage teachers, who are key to a functioning education system, is a major known catalyst for improved performance. However, the central governmen...
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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...
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“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...
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As a result of the 2014 railway reforms, France now has a unified full-fledged railway infrastructure manager in place in the form of SNCF Réseau, which is equipped with all the operational resources it requires to deliver on its remit. In 2018 a new reform transformed the organisation, with effect ...
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Early childhood care policy covers all actions aimed at developing childcare solutions for children under the age of three, i.e. 2.17 million children in January 2023. In the 1970s, subsidies were granted to parents looking after their children and to childminders. A key priority has been developing...
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Social housing plays a vital role in France: the 4.8 million social housing units account for one-sixth of all housing units and about half of all rental stock. In 2014, €17.5 billion in public aid was allocated to it. In a context of citizens’ high expectations and the State’s sustained action over...
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Following on from its reports from 2010 (L’éducation nationale face à la réussite de tous les élèves), 2013 (Gérer les enseignants autrement) and 2015 (Le suivi individualisé des élèves), the Cour des comptes hereby publishes a thematic report on the subject of France's upper secondary education sys...
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