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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Created on 8 February 2001, AFT is responsible for Central Government debt administration. It has three objectives: the issue of securities (governed each year by the Budget Act), the minimisation of the cost of these issues and the management of the related risks. Although its robust strategy enabl...
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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 an economic environment where capital, companies and high-skilled individuals are mobile, multinational firms are looking for tax optimisation and there is fierce tax competition between countries to attract companies, deeper European integration and the combating of tax avoidance and optimisatio...
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For the last 15 years, foreign trade has been experiencing growing difficulties and the French trade balance has continued to worsen. In 2021, in an admittedly unusual context, it reached an all-time low of -€84.7bn. The low buoyancy of exports, compared to that of imports, puts France in a recurren...
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Every year, in application of article L.O. 132-2-1 of the French Financial Jurisdiction Code, the Cour des comptes drafts a report on the certification of the general social security regime financial statements, which it submits to Parliament and the Government.
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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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The 2017 Annual Public Report is published in two volumes: - volume I sets out the observations and recommendations made as a result of a set of audits and investigations undertaken in 2016 by the Cour des Comptes and its regional and territorial chambers of accounts; - volume II sets out the organi...
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The provisions contained in the Constitutional Bylaw on Budget Acts (LOLF) of 1 August 2001 included the introduction of general accounts within central government’s accounting system. This reform was designed to address the inability to faithfully record central government’s assets, report all of i...
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The prevention of loss of independence has been widely discussed for ten years in parliamentary proceedings1, by researchers and specialists from various backgrounds, and in administrative reports. The analyses often cover the same ground, in particular in their emphasis of the importance of the iss...
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