While the resources earmarked for perinatal policy are increasing (€9.3 billion in 2021, up 9 % on 2016) and the birth rate is falling (-5.3 % over the same period), the health results observed call into question the efficiency of the allocated resources. The main perinatal health indicators - still...
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With 53.9 million skier-days, France ranks second in the world for winter tourism, just behind the United States. In the 1960s and 1970s, winter tourism in the mountains grew considerably in France, with the construction of winter sports resorts as part of the government’s winter sports plans. One o...
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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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The Chair of the Senate Social Affairs Committee has asked the Court of Accounts to carry out a survey on "respiratory health". Its aim is to assess the effectiveness of policies to prevent and combat the main respiratory diseases: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and lung cancer...
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The Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFiP) is responsible for both taxation (assessment and collection of taxes and other public revenues) and public management (control and payment of expenditure by the State, local authorities and hospitals). It employs around 93,000 staff, 85 % of whom wo...
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The Court of Accounts published its report on the State budget in 2023. The State budget deficit will be €173.0bn in 2023, the highest level ever recorded after 2020 (€178.1bn), a year marked by the Covid crisis. Expenditure remained at a very high level, as the initial Finance Act did not provide f...
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A thriving charitable sector depends on the trust placed in organisations that promise to act in accordance with their appeals for donations and the wishes of donors. Since the law of 7 August 1991, the Court of Accounts has had the role of contributing to this confidence by verifying that donations...
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The pass Culture scheme has been a priority policy of the ministry of culture since 2017. Following trials in a number of departments, the pass Culture scheme was rolled out to all 18 year-olds throughout France in 2021, then extended to 15-17 year-olds in 2022. It provides beneficiaries with an ind...
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The common first year of health studies (PACES) had, since 2010, served as a preparatory year for competitive entrance exams to health training programmes. It involved 57,000 students in 2019 and selected 9,700 medical students, 1,000 midwifery students, 1,400 dentistry students and 3,900 pharmacy s...
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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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