
In 2017, three hurricanes of exceptional violence hit the islands of Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy, 250 kilometres north-west of Guadeloupe. The most devastating of them, Irma, caused considerable damage to both territories. The two northern islands suffered the same cataclysm, but each have kno...
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Vocational training is a process of acquiring the knowledge and skills required in specific occupations or, more broadly, on the job market. The law of 5 September 2018 on the freedom to choose a professional future profoundly changed the mechanisms and, more generally, the very landscape of vocatio...
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On 4 March 2015, the Cour des comptes issued a public report devoted to pupils’ individual monitoring: an ambition to be reconciled with the organisation of the education system. The target enshrined by the Law of 23 April 2005 and later reaffirmed by that of 8 July 2013, is to bring 100% of student...
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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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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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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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At a time of crisis in the teaching profession, causing difficulties in recruitment, replacement and retention, the human resources function of the Ministry of National Education, the largest employer in the State, is crucial. Education accounts for the largest share of the national budget (€87 bill...
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In April 2019, the French national audit office, Cour des comptes announced that it would control troughout the whole rebuilding process, the fund-raising and use of donations made to the rebuildind of Notre Dame Cathedral, and would publish control reports on a regular basis. Among others, the firs...
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The French Agency of Biomedicine (ABM) is a public administrative body created by the Bioethics Law of 6 August 2004 and placed under the authority of the ministry of health. Having succeeded the former Établissement français des greffes (French Transplant Agency), it plays a leading role in the har...
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