
Pierre Moscovici was appointed First President of the Cour des comptes, the French Supreme Audit Institution, by the President of the Republic on June 3rd, 2020. He succeeds Didier Migaud, who became President of the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (Haute Autorité pour la transparence...
In April 2019, the French national audit office, Cour des comptes announced that it would control troughout the whole rebuilding process, the fund-raising and use of donations made to the rebuildind of Notre Dame Cathedral, and would publish control reports on a regular basis. Among others, the firs...
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The Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes (DGDDI) mobilises 17,000 officers, deployed on 674 installations. Facing changes in the Customs environment, it has displayed an ability to adapt, but remains confronted with a need for transformation and modernisation of its competences and its ...
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As with 2018, the financial context remained favourable to local communities in 2019 thanks to the dynamism of their tax revenue, the slight progression of transfers from the State and relatively controlled expenditures. Their gross savings, which significantly increased, contributed to the financin...
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The Finance, General Economy and Budgetary Control committee, chaired by Mr. Éric Woerth (Les Républicains, Oise) examined, during its meeting on 28th October 2020, an investigation report requested from the Cour des comptes under Section 2 of Article 58 of the Constitutional Bylaw on Budget Acts, r...
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The health crisis has led to an unprecedented widening in the social security deficit, resulting from a fall in revenue and an increase in expenditure in response to the emergency. The result has been a considerable increase in social debt. In order to safeguard the social security system over the l...
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The Covid-19 pandemic has major consequences on French public finances. Yet France did not benefit from a sound initial fiscal position to address the crisis. The results for 2019 show that the structural deficit has not been reduced and that public debt has remained stable at a high level. In 2020,...
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In order to provide you with relevant information, the French Cour des comptes gives you the opportunity to read or reread its reports in relation to the current health emergency crisis or the situation of public finances.
Created in 2001, SOS Education describes itself as “a militant association […] endeavouring fully independently to ensure that schools teach each child the basic skills and to strive for excellence”. It states that it is “totally transparent concerning its funding” and “funded exclusively by the gen...
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In order to provide the Parliament, before the summer, with an appraisal of the financial situation of various public administrations for the past year, the Cour des comptes presents its annual analyses of the financial situation and outlook for local authorities and the social security system in tw...
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