The Court issues a qualified opinion on the 2021 financial statements of the five branches of the general social security system - including, for the first time, the newly-created 5th autonomy branch - and declines to certify the 2021 financial statements of the contributions collection (URSSAF netw...
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Despite national spending on education above the OECD average, the performance of the French school system tends to deteriorate, particularly for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Educational reforms, increased resources, the results of assessments of student achievement have not yet made...
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To improve the provision of information to Parliament, since 2019 the Court of Accounts has presented its annual report on local government finances in two stages. In the first part, published in July 2022, the Court analysed the situation of local governments as at 31 December 2021, after a year ma...
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The Court of Accounts has published its 2021 Central Government Budget Report, accompanied by 64 budget performance analyses. The year 2021 was marked by significant central government interventions, particularly due to the ongoing health crisis and the ramping up of the recovery plan. On the other ...
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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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The First President of the Court of Accounts was heard on 10 January by the Senate's Committee on Culture, Education and Communication and then by the National Assembly’s Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education. These hearings follow the submission to Parliament of a progress report on the prepa...
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The evaluation of the preventive healthcare policy first led the Court to measure its effectiveness and efficiency by presenting the results of preventive action on the three major pathologies covered in this report (cancers, neuro-cardio-vascular diseases (NCVD) and diabetes) overall and in terms o...
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Estimated at 2.5 million in 2015, the population of dependent older people could reach 4 million by 2050. Despite the desire of French authorities to promote a “shift towards home”, établissements d’hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes (Ehpads, “residential establishments for dependent elder...
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In conjunction with the regional audit chambers, the Court has sought, from the numerous data available and site inspections and checks, to describe and understand the distribution and allocation of resources between the different types of patients concerned by mental health and psychiatric care (fr...
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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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