The 106th Congress of French Mayors takes place November 19-21. How far has the decentralization process come? Why are relations between the State and local authorities increasingly conflictual?

Since its creation in 2013, under François Hollande, French Tech has been deployed as a veritable tool in favor of French-style innovation. While tricolored unicorns remain an all-too rare species, the revived and amplified initiative has had many effects, some of them unexpected.

For the past 15 years, local public action has been profoundly impacted by the rise of digital technologies: deployment of fiber optics (Plan France très haut débit), dematerialization of administrative procedures (Action publique 2022 program), opening up of data (Law for a Digital Republic), use of digital as a lever for managing budget austerity, etc.

The Be A Boss Tour / Be entrepreneure, the forum for women entrepreneurs, enables over 1,000 women with projects each year to take part in the forum in their region and present their project in order to compete in the final stage: the Be A Boss Awards.