The Court of Accounts has published its 2022 central government Budget Report, accompanied by 64 budget performance analyses. The year 2022 was marked by a further increase in government spending, despite a sharp fall in spending on health emergencies and stimulus plan measures. This increase can be...
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In the first part of its annual report on local government finances, published on 4 July this year, the Court of Accounts showed that local authorities as a whole were in a very favourable financial position in 2022, as they had been the previous year. In this second report, the Court points out tha...
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The Regional Express Network (RER) has grown steadily since the 1970s, marking a turning point in transport services in the Île-de-France region. Given the scale of the impact on passengers, reliability, frequency and passenger information are key issues for this network. The five RER lines are oper...
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The French hospital system is made up of public and private acute hospitals. At the end of 2020, out of 2,989 establishments, there were 1,347 public hospitals, 972 private for-profit and 670 private not-for-profit establishments, the majority of which were public-interest private healthcare establi...
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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...
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For over twenty years, the prison population has been rising steadily, reaching an all-time high of 73,000 by the end of 2022. This places France among the ten European countries in which the prison population is increasing. The majority of inmates are young men with social and medical vulnerabiliti...
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Since 2017, there has been a strong social demand for gender equality, motivated by persistent inequalities and occurring alongside the rise of the #MeToo movement. Violence against women, particularly domestic violence, is a particularly sensitive issue, and especially came to the fore during the p...
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The Court of Accounts was interviewed on 18 July by the Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP) monitoring delegation of the French National Assembly’s Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education. This hearing follows the submission to Parliament of a supplementary report on the organisation of the 2024 ...
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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...
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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...
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