In the Seine basin, flooding is one of the biggest natural hazards, after drought. The Île-de-France metropolitan area is particularly vulnerable to the risk of flooding. The last major floods occurred in May-June 2016 and January-February 2018, costing €1.4 billion and €150 million to €200 million ...
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On 15 April 2019, a fire broke out at Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, destroying part of the monument and threatening its survival. Following this disaster, a wave of solidarity made it possible to raise the funds necessary for its preservation and restoration through a national contribution. This mo...
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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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The French aeronautics industry was the second largest in the world behind the US’one in 2019, and was thus a strategic sector for the national economy. It was a large-scale exporter (€64 billion in foreign sales in 2019) and was enjoying a dynamic period in terms of job creation and building revenu...
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With the authority to audit the use of resources by organisations appealing for public donations, the Court of Accounts conducts audits into the use of donations received following crises or disasters (Asian tsunami in 2004, Haiti earthquake in 2010, Notre-Dame de Paris fire in 2019). This audit by ...
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Emergency departments within public or private healthcare facilities provide continuous care for all patients requiring urgent treatment, including those with psychiatric conditions. Emergency medicine is defined by the provision of care within the first 24 hours of a patient’s arrival and is not de...
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Dock dues, a tax with a long history, are levied in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte and La Réunion. They are applied to imports of goods as well as to deliveries of goods provided in exchange for payment by those who produced them. This tax, to which elected representatives are deeply...
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French law on persons with disabilities does not make the funding of accommodation conditional on its location within the country. Slightly more than 7,000 adults were accommodated in Wallonia in 2022. This observation led the French Court of Accounts to undertake a specific investigation into the i...
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Initiated by the Prime Minister's circular of 1 July 2019, the France services programme was presented as a response to the feeling of marginalisation and remoteness from public services experienced by part of the population. Spearheaded by the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion (ANCT), it is ...
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In 2022, the French cattle industry made a significant contribution to the country’s agriculture, producing over 23 billion litres of cow's milk and rearing over four million cattle for slaughter. Production activities primarily involve livestock farmers. There are a great many of them, and they sel...
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