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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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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Against comparable European countries, France experienced a faster rate of deindustrialisation between 2000 and 2010. Following the Gallois report in 2012, France gradually changed its strategy. The actions taken have come in a variety of forms, with contrasting results in 2024. Against this backdro...
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Established in 1964, the National Forest Office (Office National des Forêts, ONF) is an industrial and commercial public agency (EPIC) responsible for the sustainable management of public forests. In mainland France, the ONF manages approximately 1.7 million hectares of State-owned forests and 2.9 m...
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The 2024 Annual Public Report, published today, in figures: 725 pages in two volumes; 62 audit recommendations; the result of the work of the six chambers of the Court, seventeen regional Chambers of Accounts (CRCs), five inter-jurisdictional committees (common to the Court and a CRC) ; contribution...
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Central government procurement totalled around €60 billion (or 2.5 % of GDP) in 2022. The awarding of public procurement contracts is governed by three fundamental principles that structure regulations in this area: equal treatment of candidates, freedom of access to public procurement and transpare...
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Spread across three oceans, the French overseas territories, despite their legal, demographic, cultural, economic and social heterogeneity, are faced with common difficulties, such as unemployment and poverty rates that are systematically higher than in mainland France. Training students and the dev...
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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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