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Explanation: CSS, free or low-cost complementary health insurance in France

Explanation: CSS, free or low-cost complementary health insurance in France

Along with their basic rights under the French public healthcare system, which comes with affiliation to French social security, most people choose to pay for supplementary insurance to pay for costs not covered by the state. It’s called a mutual or Complementary Health and is provided either by a non-profit organization or by an insurance …

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Faced with the rise in STDs, France makes condoms freely available to people aged 18-25

Faced with the rise in STDs, France makes condoms freely available to people aged 18-25

French to provide free condoms in pharmacies for 18-25 year olds. Getty This week, French President Emmanuel Macron said condoms would be made available free of charge in pharmacies for 18 to 25 year olds, starting in January 2023. The main aim of this new policy is to fight the spread of disease. sexually transmitted …

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The difficult quest for a common energy policy

The difficult quest for a common energy policy

Lucas Schramm is a political science researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The European Council recently confirmed that little, if anything, in the European Union moves between France and Germany without consent. The Franco-German controversies have been at the heart of the energy issue for weeks. But it is not uncommon for these two …

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