The Court of Auditors has published its 2020 State Budget Report, accompanied by 65 budget performance analysis notes. 2020 was dominated by the health crisis and massive State interventions in response, resulting in the adoption of four Amending Finance Acts. In terms of performance, the deficit in...
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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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Like all urban transport companies, the Paris Transport authority (RATP) relies on a strong human component: in 2018, its personnel costs represented €2.7 billion, i.e. 50% of operating expenses, for just over 46,000 agents. While progress has been made, particularly in terms of productivity, the or...
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Since 1981, seven Business Formalities Centres (Centres de Formalités des Entreprises, CFE) networks have enabled businesses to complete the formalities involved in setting up, changing their situation and ceasing trading. With a view to simplification, the PACTE law provides for the introduction of...
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France set aside about €10 billion a year on defense equipment projects during the period covered by the current Military Programming Law (LPM) i.e., 2014-2019. The LPM bill being debated in Parliament provides for an increase in these investments for the period 2019-2023, with an annual average of ...
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The Finance, General Economy and Budgetary Control committee, chaired by Mr. Éric Woerth (Les Républicains, Oise) examined, during its meeting on 28th October 2020, an investigation report requested from the Cour des comptes under Section 2 of Article 58 of the Constitutional Bylaw on Budget Acts, r...
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"The regional administration of the French Republic is performed by local authorities and by local state organisations": this principle, enshrined in the Law of 6 February 1992, underlines the paradoxical situation of local state organisations. A lack of resources means that at times they are strugg...
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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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