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With 2,341,161 passengers welcomed in 2022, Roland-Garros airport ranks first among overseas airports and in eleventh position in the national ranking established by the UAF (Union of French Airports). It is inserted between Beauvais (4,6 million passengers) and Guadeloupe airport (2 million passengers, second overseas airport). Aimé-Césaire Airport (Martinique) comes in third position for....

Réunion is one of the 18 departments volunteering to test the future organization of France Travail, which must replace Pôle Emploi in 2024. She is also, among them, the only one to have recentralized the payment of active solidarity income (RSA), in 2020. As part of an experiment put forward by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne...

Despite the strong increase in the number of bank cards on the island over the past twenty years, more than half of the payments made in stores by Reunion Islanders are now paid in cash, like in France, according to the Issuing Institute of Overseas Departments based on a survey carried out at the end of 2022. Payments by credit card represent 43% of the number of....

From the next academic year, next August, Réunion will offer the entire health study course and will be able to issue the in-depth training diploma in medical sciences at the end of the 2025-2026 academic year.. So far, the University of Reunion only offered the first cycle and the third cycle of internship at the CHU. Medical students....

The news was announced by Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak on May 19 during the Cannes Film Festival. : the project to create a Rubika campus, offering bac+5 level training in video games and 2D and 3D animation, will be supported as part of the France 2030 reindustrialization plan. Ce projet est porté...

C’est le pourcentage de progression de la valeur des exportations réunionnaises en 2022, selon le rapport annuel de l’Iédom. Ce bond est surtout dû à celui des exportations des produits de la pêche (+39 %), notamment la légine. Les importations affichent quant à elles une hausse de 20 % en valeur en 2022, liée en partie à la progression...

The University of Reunion officially launched on April 27 in Vellore (Tamil Nadu, south of India) its “Iliade” project for a Franco-Indian campus in the field of life sciences and health, with seven French and Indian partners. Iliade a été retenu suite à un appel à projets lancé par le gouvernement français dans le but...

Laurent Lescuyer will succeed Edwin Botterman as general manager of Brasseries de Bourbon on June 21. This last, in office since September 2019, is called upon to exercise new functions for the Heineken group from Reunion. Laurent Lescuyer prend la direction des Brasseries de Bourbon après plus de vingt-cinq années d’expérience dans le management et la...

The City of Saint-Benoît and the CDC Habitat group concluded a memorandum of understanding on April 11 for the sale of the municipality's shares in Semac (Mixed economy development and construction company), on the occasion of the trip of Anne-Sophie Grave, president of the board of directors of CDC Habitat, in the meeting. « Cette opération permettra d’engager une nouvelle dynamique...

The launch of the 2021-2027 programming of European funds was recorded on April 7 in the presence of the prefect, representatives of the Department, of the Region, of the European funds monitoring committee and the Agency for the management of local initiatives in European matters. Besides the ERDF, Europe finances the ESF in Reunion (European Social Fund), whose ...