Month: September 2018

MIL OSI Translation. Government of the Republic of France statements from French to English
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Launched by health Insurance to help people suffering from back pain and those who wish to prevent the appearance of pain, Activ’Back has won the prize of the mobile application health for the general public, awarded on the occasion of the Trophies of the health mobile on February 9, 2018.

Available free for smartphones on iOS or Android, Activ’Back is a coach at your service everyday to prevent back pain, and act as soon as the pain occurs, your home, your place of work or on the move.

Activ’Back offers three major features :

The first allows you to better understand the functioning of your back and understand the origin of low back pain, through information and quiz :tennis is a sport suitable when you have backache ?
ironing sitting down is it recommended ?
what positions should we adopt for the gardening ?

The second function allows you to have a coach in your phone, and discover with him or her relaxation exercises, stretching and strength training to do it at work or at home, but also the good deeds of everyday life (carry a bag, do the housework or the kitchen, stand or sit in the car…) in the form of videos and animations. The exercises are offered individually “a la carte” and in the form of sessions that consist of several exercises that you can sort according to level of difficulty, type of exercise, and the opportunity to do the work.
The third function offers you a tracking of your activity, you incite them to maintain and develop, as well as a follow-up of your pain. Messages to remind you of the workouts that you have scheduled and you deliver the advice according to the days and your use of the application. You can find all of the exercises and the sessions already completed and those to come. Encouragement are regularly sent.

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Activ’Backpack has been designed in collaboration with experts (general practitioners, masseurs-physiotherapists, rheumatologists, occupational physicians and rehabilitation technicians physical), as well as with users (employees of the Insurance with back problems). The experts have also accompanied the health Insurance in the awareness campaign to back pain ? The right treatment, it is the movement that began in the fall of 2017 and whose main objective was to fight against the idea received involving the relief of back pain at rest (maintenance of physical activity is on the contrary essential).

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MIL OSI Translation. Government of the Republic of France statements from French to English
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Do you have a question to pose to the government ? Thanks to the platform questions.parlement-ouvert.fr two deputies pose each month four written questions to the government on the basis of the proposals of the citizens.

The past two months during the creation of the device in February 2018 and four, these questions are selected from those which are the most discussed on the platform.

It is not a forum for online discussion with the deputies, but of a space of participatory democracy. This approach is part of the process of modernization of the national Assembly launched in 2017.

How does it work ?

You need to create a user account :Choose “New user”

To note :

He is asked to argue its positions, and to express any comments that are insulting, defamatory, sexist, racist or contrary to public order and the law in force.

Are also prohibited :

the advertising messages and ads

The moderators reserve the right to enforce these rules by deleting the messages offending, without prior notice or prior agreement.

And then ?

The citizens in which the question has been selected are notified by e-mail by the members and their teams (which they may indicate their choice to remain anonymous or not). The questions are filed in the official Journal and a mail is sent to concerned members of the government.

The responses of the ministers are made public and disseminated widely.

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What is a written question ?

The written and oral questions are the instruments of parliamentary control of the activity of the government of the oldest. Procedures with individual character, they allow the information of members of parliament on punctual subjects and points of news.

To which a member may ask a question ?

Either to a minister or the Prime minister if the topic relates to the general policy of the government.

The average response time is four months.

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MIL OSI Translation. Government of the Republic of France statements from French to English
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In the framework of the procedure Parcoursup allowing high school students to enroll in higher education, the ministry of higher Education, Research and Innovation reminds us that candidates with disabilities can post until 31 march 2018, their particular circumstances (disability, needs) to the level of the topic Elements-related to my schooling of their application online, this topic is a space for free expression open to the future high school graduates.

Furthermore, following the law of 8 march, 2018 on the direction and success of the students, a decree should be published by the end of may 2018, providing candidates with disabilities the opportunity to enter the rector, when they have not obtained a satisfactory response in relation to their specific needs.

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When it will be put in place, this right of referral particular the rector of the academy must allow candidates with a disability :

ask for reconsideration of their situation

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MIL OSI Translation. Government of the Republic of France statements from French to English
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What is the rate of success in the baccalaureate colleges of your city or your department ? The ministry of national Education presents indicators of results of 4 328 high schools of general education, technological and vocational, public or private under contract, for the year 2017.

The performance indicators of schools selected are calculated from the results of the students who have passed the bachelor’s degree and related data in the course of their schooling :

rate of success in the baccalaureate

If a school has a high value for an indicator, this may mean :

is that the school has received good students

The “value added” an institution is a measure of the difference between the results obtained and expected results in relation to school characteristics and socioeconomic status of the students.

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It is possible to perform a search according to various criteria : name of institution, city, department, type of training…

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MIL OSI Translation. Government of the Republic of France statements from French to English – Published on July 07, 2018

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am pleased to have received today the prime minister of Norway

These sovereign wealth funds were present in Paris on the 12th of December last, to the summit of One Planet, which has been an important time of remobilization of the international community against the threat of climate change. They decided to form a working group and have taken the engagement on the 12th of December, to Paris, to establish a common framework of analysis in order to accelerate the efforts to integrate risks and opportunities related to the transition to an economy that is ” low carbon “, in the management of large portfolios of long term assets.

Because it was an emergency, everyone knows that. Climate change is not a risk for tomorrow, it is for today, and it occurs now under our eyes, its consequences are inevitable if we do nothing, it is the worsening of poverty in some States, the worsening of inequalities is the displacement of populations due to desertification, is the disappearance of island nations.

The commitment of the six sovereign wealth funds in the One Planet Summit is not trivial. These funds represent 3 000 billion, or 2% to 3% of the world market capitalization, and they are among the largest asset holders in the world. Suffice to say that they have a strong influence in the investor community, that they can have an influence also on the companies in which they invest so that they include the imperative of climate, knowing that they have a non-negligible part of the publicly listed companies in advanced economies.

Basically what its six funds, sovereign wealth funds are committed to the 12 December last, is to show that, even though it could not have escaped the person – funds the capital of which was generated by oil, we may decide to come to hydrocarbons and to invest in climate action. And these are funds that invest in the funds. And they decided to show that with the finance, we could do the good of the economy. This double transformation of showing that when we think of the future, one can precisely achieve this transformation and to put finance at the service of the common good, we can use the capital from hydrocarbons and fossil fuels to the energy transition, this is what, during these last six months, they are employed to do.

These swfs have formed a working group, and what they present to us today, it is this document, six months before the date that was initially planned. The result of their mobilization, it is a common strategy to guide investment decisions in favour of the climate. This document will be published in a few minutes on the Internet, we will be presented in a moment. It revolves around three principles : a principle of alignment, ownership, a principle of integration, and they allow it to be so, to bring all of the investors who follow them, the managers who follow them, all of the companies in which they are involved, to go to the climate change, to integrate them into their strategy planning, risk management, to integrate into the public reports, the promotion of the management of values and to integrate risks and opportunities related to climate change in the management of their investments.

The publication of this collective strategy is an important step in the acceleration of the transition to a global economy that is low carbon, because this document – in any case it is our goal – needs to become a standard. It will become the reference of its six sovereign fund in terms of investment. It will lead to weigh-in on the strategy of the Asset Managers and the companies in which they have invested. It will then serve as a reference to the financial markets which do not take sufficient account today these risks, in particular because of a lack of method, of data, of consensus.

This document creates, for the first time a consensus assumed asset holders to a new level, in the planet. Of course there will be winners and losers of these changes. Winning companies will be those who have correctly anticipated this future inevitable, low carbon and based on the energy efficiency and climate resilience.

Through this document, you send a clear message : you say you want to invest in companies that accelerate towards the transition, which accelerate towards a global economy with low emissions and which are resilient to physical risks related to climate change. You mean for entrepreneurs, asset managers, decisive choice.

I would like to thank the founding members of the working group of sovereign wealth funds, I want to acknowledge the work that you have done, the one and the other, in a spirit of solidarity, for the first time, despite geographical differences and cultural, and I encourage you to share your experience and to engage as widely as possible the financial sector in this fight.

I want to express my gratitude to prime Minister SOLBERG, I am very happy that once again, after December 12, it will be present in Paris to defend the cause of the climate for which she is highly committed and always active. We share the one and the other taste of the achievements and the concrete. And you have made glad today because you bring us concrete results. And I believe that we have the same temperament on this point, we are not very fond of heights where the declarations are not followed by effects. And so, as we were, one and the other, present the 12 December and that we are here today, we can see that with you, the effects are waiting for you.

I will be raising in New York on the 26th of September next, all public and private actors who have made commitments to One Planet Summit. We will follow up with the united Nations and the world Bank on the progress of the initiatives last December. It will of course be at the heart of this point.

I wish we could make this event, precisely, a rendez-vous point which will make the document a standard, and which will be around the six founding members to expand the list of those who will join this initiative, will comply with it. I hope that we can expand the scope, again, of this document, and I’ll see you in a year so that we can make a new step on the concrete achievements and results that we have obtained, since that’s all we need : results.

Thank you very much for your commitment.

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MIL OSI Translation. Government of the Republic of France statements from French to English

The Prime minister intervened, Friday, 20 October, in the framework of the Congress, of the departments of France in Marseille. On this occasion, Édouard Philippe stated taking into account the expectations of departments in the territorial policy of the Government.

The territorial policy of the Government intends to focus on the freedom and the dialogue rather than the uniformity and obligation. There will be no “major institutional transformations applied uniformly on the national territory,” not new “massive transfers of skills,” according to the laws MAPTAM and Our.

The local initiatives will be encouraged, in an effort to improve the services provided to users.

On all subjects, the National conference of territories installed last July, is to organize the dialogue between the State and the communities.

Funding of the RSA and the social expenditures of the departments

The social spending departments represent 2/3 of their operating expenses. The only benefits individual solidarity (RSA, disability compensation, Allocation personnalisée autonomy) account for half of those social expenditures. This weighs heavily on the budgets of the departments, some of whom have to face a situation worse.

The Prime minister has heard the request of the departments. To cope with the emergency, the Government is working to “put in place a mechanism for the emergency fund in the finance law amendment for 2017”. In the medium term, “the system of control and funding of our allowance of individual solidarity needs to be revisited”. Driving this thinking is one of the tasks assigned by the Prime minister at the mission preparatory to the Covenant financial State-territorial communities, installed last week. In terms of timing, the goal is to be able to “achieve reform proposals in the framework of the project finance law to 2019″.

Reception of unaccompanied minors

The Prime minister has confirmed that “the State assume the assessment and the emergency accommodation of persons reporting minor until their minority to be confirmed”, because “it is the role of the State to receive it worthily a foreign person on our territory, to ensure the protection corresponding to its status, to ensure that the titles they present are authentic, to determine its age”.

The draft finance law for 2018 “includes additional appropriations to accompany the increase in the number of minors involved and take charge, on an exceptional basis, a portion of the costs of the child welfare related to the increase in the number of unaccompanied minors accommodated in the departments this year.” 132 million euros are planned.

For the future, a mission to the joint State-departments will be charged to do by the end of the year proposals to put in place arrangements to host, and a process-specific support.

Covenant financial State-communities

In the effort to reduce public expenditure, to which the community should contribute, the Government has made the choice of the contract and the accountability. The overall allocation of operating is not going to decrease in 2018. The Government asks in return for the communities to control their operating expenses, taking into account the specificities of the territories.

Housing

The Government is committed to lead in 2018 a structural reform of the PLA is to lower rents. “This reform is the fact that rents, even in social housing, are not adequate to accommodate the households with lower resources, and that this higher level leads to a level of expenditure on the APL that is no longer bearable”.

The effort will be concentrated in social housing, because the State provides the funding and therefore of the levers of action. The decrease of the APL will be neutral for tenants of social housing. The dialogue is ongoing between the State and donors, which will be granted financing facilities to accompany this mutation.

Grand Paris

It must be a new project and a renewed institutional framework for the Grand Paris. A regional Conference of Grand Paris will meet soon with the President of the Republic. The Prefect of the Region Ile-de-France is in charge of a “mission of identification and expertise of the different scenarios of institutional change possible. (…) everything is on the table”.

Prime minister’s speech to the Congress of the Association of Departments of France

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