With its barometers, its articles and reports on ethical, international and social issues, La Croix contributes to public debate and decision-making.
Our barometers have become institutional references
Since 1988, the La Croix Verian-La Poste barometer on trust in the media has become a reference tool for public decision-makers. The January 2025 edition confirmed the increase in French distrust of the media and strong concern about false information.
He was notably cited in a parliamentary report and a proposed law on public broadcasting, in a National Assembly report on AI and foreign interference, in a proposed European resolution on climate disinformation, and no less than five times in the report of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) on reliable and independent information.
“By the respect and independence of its editorial staff, by the quality of the information it disseminates, La Croix fully deserved to be recognized” Thierry Cadart, member of the CESE and co-author of the report Acting for reliable, independent and pluralistic information in the service of democracy.
With more than 200 press reports since January, it is the most cited media barometer of the year among the ten studies published on the same theme. The FAIR-La Croix 2025 solidarity finance barometer is mentioned three times in an opinion from the Economic Affairs Committee of the National Assembly on the finance bill for 2026. Its exhibition benefited from 36 press reports and interviews and a strong relay on social networks: it was downloaded 830 times. It is now an authority among banking and ESS players.
End of life: “La Croix” fuels parliamentary and citizen debate
Our continuous monitoring of the debates around the proposals for the law on active assistance in dying and on palliative care has provoked numerous reactions from readers, divided between supporters of a law seen as promoting individual freedom, and opponents of a text assimilated to the violation of the ban on killing and to a drift penalizing an ambitious palliative care policy.
The coverage of La Croix also had a notable institutional impact: certain publications – in particular the exclusive interview with Emmanuel Macron of March 10, 2024 – were cited numerous times in the proposed law relating to the end of life, as well as in several amendments. The Cross also appears several times in two reports from the Foundation for Political Innovation (Fondapol) on the subject, published in January and October 2025.
Comorians in Mayotte: in a parliamentary report
In a report, La Croix gives the floor to Comorians living in Mayotte, who testify to the reasons for their departure: corruption, dilapidated public services and hope for a better life. This article was mentioned in the parliamentary report on the proposed law aimed at strengthening the conditions of access to French nationality in Mayotte, tabled on January 29, 2025. The rapporteur relies on the article to shed light on the underlying motivations of Comorian immigration, while warning of the risk that this text poses to land law throughout French territory.
Coup d’état in Niger: in an Amnesty International report
After the coup d’état of July 26, 2023, La Croix reported the prosecution of deposed president Mohamed Bazoum for “high treason” by the Nigerien military regime. This article is cited in an Amnesty International report entitled “Niger: threatened and brought to heel”, which documents the deterioration of civil rights and civic space between July 2023 and January 2025. It draws in particular on this source to discuss the accusations brought against the deposed president, whose detention remained without formal legal basis.
Mining pollution: in court conviction
In 2019, La Croix revealed the health and environmental consequences of the former Saint-Félix-de-Pallières mine (Gard) operated by the Belgian group Umicore. Closed since 1971, it continued to contaminate the inhabitants of a village with heavy metals that the newspaper described as “a symbol of negligence” in the decontamination of mining sites.
Six years later, this article was included in the proceedings before the Nîmes Court of Appeal, in the trial between the municipality and the mining group. To establish its image damage, the municipality made this investigation one of its most solid pieces. Umicore was sentenced in May 2025.
Zoos and biodiversity: in a ministerial report
Is it relevant to keep species in captivity before reintroducing them into the wild? A cross-interview, giving the floor to a veterinary naturalist and an animal park expert, is mentioned in an expert report from April 2025, published by the Ministry of Agriculture. The article provides food for thought on the respective roles of zoos and amateur breeders in the preservation of endangered species.
Consequences of AI: in the Bercy press reviews
The Cross is regularly cited in the monitoring of librarians from different ministries. For example, the interview with researcher Soizic Pénicaud and the column by Chem Assayag, two experts in the transformations induced by artificial intelligence, appear in two weekly monitoring letters from librarians from the economic and financial ministries (MEF) in November 2025, on the themes of electronic administration and public data or even AI in business.
