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 Cour des comptes hereby publishes its annual report on the implementation of the Social Security Finance Acts. Despite the persistence and amount of Social Security’s abnormal deficits, the latter receded only slightly in 2014, as in 2013. A marked slowdown in the speed of the deficits’ reductio...
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In an electricity sector that is open to competition at European level, France has maintained or created major public intervention tools – in connection with the “New organisation of the electricity market” (NOME) law of 7 December 2010 – to meet several objectives: to allow competition between supp...
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In 2019, there were 73 airports in mainland France. Out of those, 41 received between 10,000 and 3 million commercial passengers in the same year. This report deals with the specific situation of this category of infrastructure, the intermediate size airports, whose traffic levels exceed those of lo...
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Since its creation, the Ministry of Culture has pursued a policy of support for the performing arts, aiming to encourage artistic creation, to provide broad access to theatres, music, dance, circus and street arts throughout the country, and to develop and diversify audiences. The Ministry’s action ...
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Operated by SNCF Mobilités, the 7,000 trains and 1,300 buses that go to make up Regional Express Transport (Transports Express Régionaux – TER) provide services to periurban areas, regional cities and isolated territories, carrying some 900,000 passengers a day. The assessment of TER carried out bet...
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In response to the challenges posed by difficulties in accessing general practitioners and the increase in chronic pathologies due to the ageing of the population, the French legislature introduced the concept of “advanced practice” for paramedical professions, following a consultation process that ...
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At the request of the Senate Finance Committee, the Court of Accounts has initiated a reflection on scenarios for the funding of local governments. This investigation comes at a time when the abolition of the housing tax on main residences and the reduction in production taxes have profoundly altere...
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On 1 April 2015, the Cour des comptes issued a public report devoted to Radio France : the reasons for a crisis, avenues for reform, a joint stock company wholly owned by the state, 90% of whose turnover – €641 million in 2013 – comes from the public audiovisual contribution, namely the licence fee.
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