An opaque network of 1,470 entities, examined methodically
France has roughly 1,470 satellite entities attached to the State: 1,153 national public bodies listed by the Budget Directorate in 2025, excluding social security, plus 317 consultative bodies identified by the Senate inquiry committee of July 3, 2025, and 24 independent authorities. This opaque network concentrates tens of billions of euros in public-service subsidies, hundreds of thousands of public employees, and a multitude of documented institutional overlaps.
This dossier proposes an exhaustive panoramic mapping and a rigorous classification according to four operational categories: to be kept, merged, reintegrated, or abolished. It is accompanied by a 24-month rupture plan structured in three waves: decrees, mergers, and laws. Its methodology is deliberately comparable to that used in the special reports of the Court of Auditors: reproducible, verifiable, and documentable case by case. The main sources are public: the Senate report no. 807 of July 3, 2025, the Budget Directorate’s “State Operators” budgetary annex to the 2026 Finance Bill, Court of Auditors reports from 2018 to 2026, and Fondation IFRAP studies.
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