On a half-century scale, the effectiveness of the road safety policy is indisputable and its results spectacular: from more than 18,000 killed on the roads of France in 1972, that number fell to less than 3,500 in 2018 and 2019. It is therefore an indisputable success. There are signs, however, tha...
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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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The massive proliferation of green algae has affected many sites on the coasts of Britanny since the seventies. These stranding of green algae, also called “green tides”, have important consequences in terms of health, costs and image for the concerned areas and for Brittany. It is worth recalling t...
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Rail reforms have incrementally brought about substantial improvements to the French rail network. However, they have failed to overcome a number of structural weaknesses, which the health crisis has greatly aggravated. The national rail network is struggling to recover after years of being run down...
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Pupils' success at school owes a great deal to the quality of the teaching and the support provided by their teachers throughout their learning process. The quality of teacher recruitment and training is thus crucial for school performance. The recruitment and initial training of future teachers hav...
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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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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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The Court of Accounts publishes its annual report on the financial position of local authorities, having finished examining their accounts for the year 2022. After a marked improvement in 2021, local authorities once again enjoyed a very favourable financial position in 2022, as shown by the trend i...
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Article L. 210-1 of France’s Environmental Code emphasises that “the protection of water, its promotion and the development of usable resources, while respecting natural balances, are issues of general interest”. To ensure the protection of this heritage, public policy must maintain the proper funct...
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In the first issue of its report on local public finances, published in June 2021, the Court analysed the financial situation of local government authorities as of 31 December 2020, after a year marked by the pandemic and its social and economic consequences. This second issue covers the situation a...
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