The Cour des comptes of France now presents its annual report on local public finances in two parts to improve the information given to Parliament. Part I, focusing on the financial position in 2018, was published last June; part II is focused on the situation in 2019 and beyond, as well as on an as...
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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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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) 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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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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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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