The ENA, threatened with bankruptcy, shows 2.8 million euros of deficit

The National School of Administration (ENA) has a deficit of 2.8 million euros in 2017 and could go bankrupt within four years, revealed Le Parisien Sunday, October 14.

The school that trains senior administrators seems to have trouble managing its own accounts. The National School of Administration (ENA) posted a deficit of 2.8 million euros last year, out of a total budget of 40.8 million euros, mainly due to the expansion of its missions has not been sufficiently compensated by the state, says Sunday Le Parisien .

"If nothing changes, the school, which still has a small reserve to mop, will be bankrupt within four years," the newspaper said, which obtained the accounting documents of the ENA via the think tank liberal iFRAP - which seized for it the Commission of access to administrative documents.

According to these documents, the State subsidy (31.1 million euros) is only slightly higher than staff costs (30.9 million euros), which includes student remuneration (9.2 million euros). euros), paid 1,682 euros gross per month during their two years of schooling. Other revenues (including EUR 3.4 million of own revenue) are not enough to balance the accounts.

38 job cuts

However the school "is not responsible for everything," says the Parisian, since it had to absorb in 2002 the International Institute of Public Administration, then in 2005 the Center for European Studies in Strasbourg.

"The state has forced him to grow without really revaluing the grant he pays him , " the newspaper analysis.

ENA also has unpaid claims from several French public institutions, for which it has organized training, but also from foreign states - Kuwait owes it 569,700 euros.

Interviewed by Le Parisien , the secretary general of ENA, Thierry Rogelet, recognizes that the school is "in financial difficulty" , but stresses that it has "no debts" .

The Secretary-General expects a deficit of 1.4 million euros this year, then 400 000 next year, before "a return to the green, +500,000 euros" in 2020. To achieve this, the establishment has removed 38 posts in recent years, plus four others this year, detailed Mr. Rogelet.