Following the hiatus related to the parliamentary elections, the Court of Accounts has resumed its publication schedule with its annual report on the situation and outlook for public finances. While the economic situation has returned to normal and inflation has abated, France now finds itself in a ...
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The Court of Accounts publishes its first report of the year devoted to the overall state of public finances after two difficult years. For the second consecutive year, the public deficit worsened in 2024, reaching almost €175 billion, or 6.0 percentage points of GDP, after 5.5 points in 2023 and 4.
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The Court of Auditors publishes its annual report on the financial situation of local authorities, based on an examination of their accounts for 2023. After a very favourable 2022, the year 2023 was marked by an overall deterioration in the financial situation of local authorities and by a divergenc...
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Based in particular on the audits carried out by the Regional and Territorial Chambers of Accounts, the Court has examined the conditions under which local authorities and their groupings delegate the management of local public services to private companies. The Court proposes a series of measures t...
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As part of the France Superfast Broadband Plan (Plan France très haut débit - PFTHD) launched in 2013, the Government announced in 2020 that fibre optics would be rolled out nationwide by 2025. The Senate Finance Committee has referred the matter to the financial authorities for an assessment of the...
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The Cour des comptes has published its sixth annual report, produced jointly with the regional courts of audit, on the financial position and management of local authorities and their public institutions. It offers a new analysis of the impact of the decrease in state funding over the 2014-2017 peri...
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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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With a public deficit of 6.4% of GDP in 2021, i.e., more than double that of 2017, and a public debt of more than 110% of GDP, France is emerging from the health crisis with one of the most deteriorated public finance situations in the euro area. The report published today by the Court of Accounts i...
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The 2023 Annual Public Report, published today, in figures: 572 pages (-18.52 % compared to 2022), including 186 pages of responses from administrations 26 audit recommendations The result of the work of the seven chambers of the Court, fifteen regional Chambers of - Accounts (CRCs), eight inte...
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France is among the OECD countries where the academic performance of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds has declined over the past twenty years, and where social inequalities have the greatest impact on educational outcomes. Yet France has pursued a continuous policy of priority education since 1...
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