The Court of Accounts has published the second part of its annual report on local government finances. In the first pamphlet, published last July, the Court noted that while 2022 had been a very favourable year, 2023 saw a general deterioration in the financial position of local authorities. In this...
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Established in Paris between 2019 and 2021, the “crack plan” aims to tackle the problem of crack cocaine, a hard, cheap drug that has been heavily trafficked in the north-east of Paris since the 1990s. This plan was developed by a group of actors who sought to coordinate their actions to address the...
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On 27 May 2015, The Cour des comptes – French Supreme Audit Institution – hereby issues its audit opinion of the French Central Government Financial Statements for the year 2014, prepared in accordance with Article 58 of the Constitutional Bylaw Governing Finance Acts (LOLF). The Cour certifies that...
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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 French hospital system is made up of public and private acute hospitals. At the end of 2020, out of 2,989 establishments, there were 1,347 public hospitals, 972 private for-profit and 670 private not-for-profit establishments, the majority of which were public-interest private healthcare establi...
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Social housing plays a vital role in France: the 4.8 million social housing units account for one-sixth of all housing units and about half of all rental stock. In 2014, €17.5 billion in public aid was allocated to it. In a context of citizens’ high expectations and the State’s sustained action over...
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In the context of the health crisis, the Court decided to initiate an audit that, while respecting its professional standards, is noteworthy for the speed of its investigation, carried out within four months. This work is presented as an initial assessment of the financial effort made to support pub...
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Inspired by the British model when it was created in 2016, the French Public Health Agency (Santé Publique France - SPF) is an agency under the Ministry of Health. It was created from the merger of four organisations to improve the coherence and efficiency of public policies in the fields of epidemi...
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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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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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