From the second half of 2021, energy prices have begun to bounce back with the post-covid global economic recovery. The rise accelerated in the spring of 2022 in Europe, after the outbreak of war in Ukraine. As a result of price-setting mechanisms on European wholesale electricity markets, which pas...
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This report examines the use of resources raised from public generosity by the Aides association. Dedicated to the fight against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and to supporting people exposed to it, Aides has since its inception extended its activities to other at-risk groups. In 2022, its ...
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The Court of Accounts was asked by the National Assembly’s Public Policy Evaluation and Audit Committee to investigate the State’s policy for managing the 192,000 buildings in its stock. This report comprises three sections, devoted respectively to a description of this very large and highly diversi...
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While France has recently adopted a possible warming scenario of around 2°C by 2050, in that same year the country could have 7.2 million inhabitants aged between 75 and 84, i.e. 75% more than today. As such, the objective of “living better at home”, in addition to efforts to combat global warming, ...
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Tax expenditure (commonly referred to as "tax loopholes") covers all the tax breaks and reductions provided for by law and intended to benefit different categories of taxpayer. They are introduced to encourage taxpayers to behave in a particular way (for example, the research tax credit to support p...
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Since 2021, various studies by the Court of Accounts have focused on block-release and vocational training for employees, which mobilised € 21.8 billion in public funding in 2022. This note summarises the results. The liberalisation of the framework for employee block-release and vocational training...
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The initial Budget Act for 2023 provided for € 158 billion in financial transfers from the central government to local authorities (municipalities, groups of municipalities, departments and regions), or 5.7 % of forecast GDP. Since 2021, these transfers have grown to account for more than half of lo...
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In 2020, an emergency plan was implemented to deal with the immediate economic consequences of the health crisis, followed from 2022 onwards by a resilience plan, which remains in progress, to support business in the face of the energy crisis. Numerous schemes to help businesses have been launched, ...
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Housing policy fundamentals, drawn up more than fifty years ago, no longer correspond to the realities and needs of the French population in 2023. Constantly evolving, this policy is struggling to achieve an increasing number of objectives, particularly in its social dimension. The many laws and ref...
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Expenditure on primary care mainly comprises medical and paramedical fees, healthcare products (drugs and medical devices), daily allowances, laboratory services and medical transport. These amounted to €107.6 billion in 2022, making them the largest area of health insurance expenditure, ahead of ho...
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