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Eight tariffs out of fourteen, in the overseas departments and communities of the euro zone, remain higher than those of France, according to the latest Iédom report which compares data from April 2025 to those from April 2024. Bank rate differences with France have widened for six of them. The biggest increases relate to maintenance costs..

In 2023, Reunion legal market units in the non-agricultural and non-financial sectors have created 9,5 billion euros of added value, for a turnover of 33,4 billion euros, and their investment amounted to 2,5 billion euros, according to the INSEE annual report on the subject. A “legal unit”, concept now used by INSEE, is a company identified...

France Travail figures for the 3rd quarter of 2025 show a rise in unemployment in Reunion. Over the period, the number of people registered with France Travail who are neither awaiting guidance nor on a social pathway increases by 1,4 % (+2,430 people) and 2,5% over one year. The number of job seekers in categories...

The Court of Auditors published a report on the General Social Security Fund of Reunion Island at the end of September, the first since an inspection carried out in 2002. The Court establishes in particular several findings. It firstly emphasizes that the quality of the service provided varies depending on the branch., with notable difficulties in the old age branch and a....

In 2022, so-called “complex” households are more common in overseas departments than in France, according to an INSEE study. Complex households are those which are not made up only of a single person or a family nucleus (couple with or without children or single-parent family). Those which bring together a family nucleus and at least one ascendant or descendant..

One year after its launch by the Réunion Region, in partnership with the State, Cyber ​​Réunion draws up an initial assessment. Reunion companies remain very exposed to cyberattacks, but the regional system is already showing tangible results on the ground. Carried by Réunion THD, Cyber ​​Réunion manages two systems. The European Digital Innovation Hub supports VSEs and SMEs and communities..

The Vietnamese automobile brand VinFast has signed a strategic partnership with the West Indian group Loret for the distribution of its vehicles on the overseas territories market.. Loret Group will establish sales channels and supply VinFast electric vehicles to local dealers and customers. L'accord de distribution est conclu pour cinq ans. Le distributeur va d’abord se...

In 2020, in the meeting, the number of inhabitants aged 50 or over reached 278,000 people, exceeding for the first time the number of under-20s. The aging of the population is expected to continue until 2050, where 371,000 seniors live on the island. Especially, the number of people aged 75 or over would triple. Ce vieillissement aura...

“Although this problem is not specific to overseas territories, the dynamism of tourism employment remains limited and faces structural weaknesses : chronic recruitment difficulties, precarious working conditions and vulnerability to crises (sanitary, social, climatic), estimates a report from the Court of Auditors, qui s’intéressait pour la première fois à...

The quarterly Image PME survey, carried out by the Sagis firm on the basis of data from accountants, showed a seventh consecutive drop in the average turnover of Reunion VSEs and SMEs in the 2nd quarter of 2025. He went back 0,9% compared to the previous quarter and 1% year-on-year, et ces chiffres ne sont...