Publications

The repeated social tensions - linked in particular to employment, inequality and insecurity - that the overseas territories experienced between 2006 and 2009, then again in 2017 in French Guiana and 2018 in Mayotte and Reunion, underline the continued, even worsening, economic and social vulnerabil...

Hospital-university (HU) staff, who are professors, researchers and hospital practitioners, constitute an elite body, in both university teaching hospitals and universities alike. They are few in number (less than 10,000, of which about 6,300 are tenured) and are selected after an extremely demandin...

After more than a quarter of a century of cuts in spending and in the size of the armed forces, the 2019-2025 military programming law (LPM) plans to increase the proportion of military spending to 2% of GDP in 2025 and to create 6,000 jobs. This budgetary growth trajectory, which aims to regenerate...

The financial outlook for the High Council of statutory auditing, flash auditThe high council of statutory auditing (Haut Conseil du commissariat aux comptes, H3C) is an independent public authority that became an oversight authority following the order of 17 March 2016 transposing the European audi...

At around 1.1 million km, the French road network (one of the longest and densest in Europe) is largely managed by local authorities – almost 380,000 km by the departments and over 700,000 km by the towns and cities. This distribution follows several waves of decentralisation towards the departments...

The health crisis of 2020 led to an 8% contraction in French GDP - the largest since 1946 implemented a €100bn recovery plan (of which €39.4bn should be paid for by the European Union), with the aim of rapidly returning to pre-crisis levels of economic activity and contributing to the transformation...

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...

Created to replace social energy tariffs, the energy cheque aims to combat the effects of fuel poverty by offering low-income households assistance in paying their energy bills. In the report published today, the Court of Accounts makes a series of observations which it believes justify a review of ...

The French aeronautics industry was the second largest in the world behind the US’one in 2019, and was thus a strategic sector for the national economy. It was a large-scale exporter (€64 billion in foreign sales in 2019) and was enjoying a dynamic period in terms of job creation and building revenu...

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...