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Reunion Island Roland-Garros airport won an Airport Service Quality Award in mid-March in the “Africa zone” category for the quality of health measures implemented in 2021. This award is awarded each year by travelers, as part of a survey organized by Airport Service Quality, the engineering department of the Airports Council International, near....

Overseas Minister Sébastien Lecornu, announced it during his visit to Réunion from February 13 to 15 : the State will financially support the construction of a 2-mile viaduct,5 km to complete the New Coastal Route. The choice of a viaduct rather than a dike was made the previous week during a plenary meeting of the Regional Council. «...

At 29 years old, 35% of young men from Reunion still live with their parents, compared to 16% in mainland France, shows a recent INSEE study based on 2018 data. This share has increased significantly, on the island, in ten years. It is only from the age of 27 that more than half of young men have left home..

Consumer prices increased by 3,3% in twelve months in Reunion, according to the INSEE index covering December and the whole of 2021, against 2,8% for the whole of France (outside Mayotte). In 2020, prices had fallen by 1% and remained stable at the national level. The most significant increase was that of....

During his visit to Reunion in mid-February, the Minister of Overseas Territories also spoke with representatives of the economic world about the explosion in maritime freight costs observed since the end of 2020. Added to this is a sharp increase in the prices of certain raw materials : the two factors combined are beginning to fuel an inflationary trend that....

As in 2017 and 2019, a survey was organized from September to November 2021 to establish the barometer of cycling cities. Only municipalities collecting at least 50 contributions are subject to classification.. There were three in 2019 (St Denis, Saint-Paul and Saint-Pierre), 12 in 2021, proof of a growing interest in traveling by bicycle. Plusieurs association et collectifs...

Le conseil communautaire de la Cinor a voté le 10 février le budget 2022 de l’intercommunalité, qui s’élève au total à 271 millions d’euros. Il se compose du budget principal (218,4 M€ pour le transport, the environment, la maintenance, water, l’assainissement et l’énergie), du budget pour l’assainissement collectif (29,5 million euros) et de celui pour l’eau potable (23,6 M€). 187...

In the meeting, the RSA affects nearly 100,000 households, covering 230,000 inhabitants, more than one in four inhabitants, shows the report published on January 13 by the Court of Auditors. Main social minimum distributed (679,€3 million in 2020), Active Solidarity Income has contributed to reducing the monetary poverty rate of the population, of...

Le nombre de demandeurs d’emploi tenus d’en rechercher un et sans activité (category A) s’établissait en moyenne à 126 410 au quatrième trimestre 2021 sur l’île. Il recule de 4,4% over one year (-5 860 inscrits). La baisse est moindre en regroupant les catégories A, B et C Pôle Emploi et en incluant les inscrits qui ont exercé une...

Every year on average between 2015 and 2019, one resident in Reunion Island in ten moves, estimates INSEE in a study made public at the end of February. Two thirds of moves are made within the same microregion of the island. Other migrations are shared equally between those of “medium distance” towards another microregion of the island,...