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	Organization of Internal Evaluation: General Inspectorate of Social Affairs: The case of France
		Nevertheless, it is not an independent or autonomous agency and its officials are employees of the labour and social affairs administrations.
		This procedure is carried out in close cooperation with the labour administration and social affairs administrative directorates and with all the central and regional services falling within the domain of labour and social affairs.
		The social partners are not involved with the operation of IGAS on an organizational level.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/dialogue/ifpdial/la/gp/france3.htm (1648 words)

	Prime Minister of France - Free net encyclopedia
		The Prime Minister is the only authority vested with the power to issue primary regulation through decrees (dГ©crets); that is, measures of a general character, either issued in support of statutes, or issued autonomously, depending on the area.
		In the Fifth Republic the chief political figure in France is the President of the Republic with the Prime Minister having secondary importance.
		When the President and the Prime Minister are of the same party, the Prime Minister often plays the role of a "fuse": that is, citizens lay the blame of the failures of governmental policy on him or her, and when the Prime Minister is unpopular, he or she resigns in order to protect the President.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Prime_Minister_of_France (671 words)

	Minister of Social Affairs (France) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Minister of Social Affairs and Employment is a cabinet member in the Government of France.
		The position was originally known as "Minister of Labor" ("Ministre du Travail"), and later, "Minister of Labor and Social Security Provisions" ("Ministre du Travail et Prévoyance sociale").
		Its current title is Minister of Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing; the position is held by Jean-Louis Borloo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minister_of_Social_Affairs_(France) (361 words)

	Woman Premier Ministers
		She was Ambassador to USSR 1948-49, Minister of Labour 1949-56 and Minister of Foreign Affairs 1956-64, 1964-69 Secretary General and 1969-74 Leader of Labour.
		An economist, she became Minister of Social Affairs 1990-91, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1993-95 and was Executive Director of the Washington Office of Haiti 1993.
		Deputy to the Prime Minister and Minister of Culture of the centre-right-government 1997-99, Vice Chairperson of the Defence Committee of Stortinget 1999-2001 and Governor of Østfold since 2003.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /Premier_Ministers.htm (2880 words)

	France
		France is a constitutional democracy in which citizens directly elect the President and the National Assembly in periodic, free, and fair elections.
		France was invited by the Community of Democracies' (CD) Convening Group to attend the November 2002 second CD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, as a participant.
		In September the Labor and Social Affairs Minister presented a plan to raise the annual overtime ceiling from 130 to a maximum of 180 hours (depending on the employment sector); the plan went into immediate effect and allowed a de facto return to the 39-hour workweek.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18365.htm (6974 words)

	Immigrant Policy Project, Recent Immigration Developments in Germany and France
		Interior Minister Schily's commission on Immigration was mentioned above and another example is German employers' initiative for raising the retirement age from 65 to 67 years to help the economy deal with an aging and declining population.
		France, too, is an integral part of the European Union and equally committed to introduce legislation along the lines of the EU's transnational objectives of immigration and asylum policy.
		France's population "grays" and shrinks, because of declining fertility rates and increased life expectancy.
	www.ncsl.org /programs/immig/eupaper.htm (4813 words)

	Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC): France -- Fiscal Transparency
		France has achieved a high level of fiscal transparency and has introduced a number of improvements in coverage and presentation of fiscal information in recent years.
		Moreover, France presents a set of forecasts, in principle by the end of each year, for the budget year and three following years including the major aggregates of the general government sector in accordance with the requirements of the EU Stability and Growth Pact (SGP).
		Presentation of data on fiscal activity that occurs outside the appropriation process (in particular, issuance of contingent liabilities, quasi-fiscal activity, and tax expenditures) could be covered in a consolidated annex to the budget to give a full picture of the range of fiscal activity at the time the budget is being considered.
	www.imf.org /external/np/rosc/fra/fiscal.htm (3706 words)

	Shimon Peres
		Shimon Peres — public servant, parliamentarian and the eighth Prime Minister of the State of Israel — was born in Vishniev, Belarus in 1923 and immigrated to Palestine with his family at the age of eleven.
		In 1953, at the age of 29, Peres was appointed by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to the post of Director General of the Defense Ministry, a position he held until 1959.
		Peres served as Minister of Regional Cooperation from July 1999 until March 2001, and in March 2001 was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister in the National Unity government headed by Ariel Sharon, serving until October 2002 when he resigned together with the other Labor ministers.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/peres.html (1234 words)

	Social Security and Pension Reform in the United States: Lessons from Europe - A Summary
		The goal of the new legislation is to make adequate supplementary protection via "social" pension funds available for the many, not the few because at the moment the second pillar has only a penetration rate of 33% in the work force.
		Increased economic growth and employment levels in Spain, combined with the retirement of the civil war generation and the net effects of immigration, have improved the dependency ratio and mitigated the challenge of the demographic evolution in the short term.
		To improve the level of social protection and assure financial sustainability at the same time, reform measures are aimed at providing a boost in economic growth by an increase in labor productivity, as well as in immigration and in women participation in the labor market.
	www.eurunion.org /partner/SocSecForumSumm.htm (4019 words)

	Four more German years
		Despite the rightward slide of Germany's social democrats and the greens, both parties have yet to fully deteriorate into a middle-of-the road, right-leaning political grouping.
		Unemployment and eroding social standards are central domestic issues in Germany, still of greater concern in the Eastern "Laender" than in the old West.
		Economic recovery aligned with sound environmental management, alongside a political agenda of social inclusion is not the conservatives idea of a modern Germany, it never was.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/international_affairs_comments/94792 (538 words)

	Embassy of France in the U.S. - François Fillon
		Embassy of France in the U.S. - François Fillon
		In 1993 he became Minister of Higher Education and Research in Edouard Balladur's government, then Minister for Information Technology and the Post Office in 1995 and was Minister Delegate with responsibility for the Post Office, Telecommunications and Space between 1995 and 1997.
		Minister of Social Affairs, Labor and Solidarity from 2002 to 2004
	www.ambafrance-us.org /atoz/bio/bio_fillon.asp (238 words)

	GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION CONTINUES AS HEADS OF STATE, HIGH-LEVEL MINISTERS DISCUSS INITIATIVES FOR SOCIAL ...
		Substantial improvement in the past few years in the indices of social services - including in the field of education at all levels, access to basic health services, and access to safe drinking water - was indicative of the progress achieved thus far as well as the potential for further betterment.
		Ntoutoume Emane further said that in order to guarantee social integration of the vulnerable segments of the population, the Government of Gabon had instituted a policy of social protection aimed at providing social assistance to those who were in need, to disabled persons, to the elderly and to those under distress.
		Good governance was also a prerequisite for social development -- rule of law, effective state institutions, respect for human rights and the participation of all citizens in the decisions that affected their lives were essential elements that were dictated by the government system.
	www.un.org /socialsummit/pr/266soc0006e.htm (4229 words)

	Female Foreign Ministers
		MINISTERS OF Apart from the women who have been Foreign Ministers a large number of women have been deputy ministers.
		Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1996 Candidate for President and 1997-2001 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
		As Secretary of State she was the highest ranking of the secretaries and fourth in the hierarchy of the Republic, after the President, Vice-President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /foreign_ministers.htm (2535 words)

	Embassy of France in the U.S. - Bernard Kouchner
		Embassy of France in the U.S. - Bernard Kouchner
		Minister of State, attached to the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment (Michel Delabarre),with responsibility for Social Integration (1988)
		Minister Delegate at the Ministry for Employment and Solidarity with responsibility for Health (February 7, 2001 until May 2002).
	www.ambafrance-us.org /atoz/bio/bio_kouchner.asp (394 words)

	Choike - Social security reform
		The new pension schemes, based on the capitalization of long-term pay-as-you-go systems and individual pension plans, managed by private financial institutions, are based on the idea of the right of ownership over contributions, in the understanding that workers defer part of their current salary for future use, along with the interests due.
		In August 2002, the new Argentine Minister for Social Security, called on a broad cross-sector of political and social actors to debate reform of the current mixed social security system, on the understanding that it has not fulfilled either its objectives or expectations.
		Articles by leading social security experts around the world present international comparisons and in-depth discussions of topical questions as well as studies of social security systems in different countries, and there is a regular, comprehensive round-up of the latest publications in its field.
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/1255.html (2681 words)

	THE HANDSTAND
		And in what the minister calls the "700 sensitive zones" -- suburbs housing immigrants and their descendants -- joblessness among the less-than- 25 year olds has skyrocketed from 25 to 55 per cent.
		Ministers, politicians, intellectuals all unite in vociferous condemnation when a Jewish person or property are targeted.
		Figures from France's interior ministry do not tally: 95 racist attacks and 135 anti-Semitic attacks in the first half 2003, as opposed to 92 and 127 all of last year.
	www.thehandstand.org /archive/september2004/articles/euronews.htm (3383 words)

	IRAQ: The interim government leaders - Council on Foreign Relations
		A Sunni, he was briefly named minister of oil in May 2003—but ceded his position to a governing council appointee a few months later.
		Trained at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, she is the former minister of reconstruction and development for the Kurdistan Regional Government.
		Narmin Othman, a Kurd and PUK member, is a former minister of social affairs in the Kurdistan regional government.
	www.cfr.org /background/background_iraq_ministers.php (2682 words)

	French Jews Concerned after Sharp Rise in Anti-Semitic Incidents
		An incident in late December 2001 in London caught the attention of media and highlighted a problem that should be of concern to Jews: rising anti-Semitism in France, which is home to the third-largest Jewish community in the Diaspora.
		The issue was at the top of the agenda of the annual meeting on December 1 of the CRIF --the umbrella group of secular French Jewish organizations -- where Prime Minister Lionel Jospin was the guest of honor and expressed the government's determination to curb the attacks.
		Against this background, France faces a national election this year, with the openly pro-Arab Communist party part of the left coalition headed by Prime Minister Jospin, a candidate for president.
	www.adl.org /international/lfe/lfe_01_2002.asp (971 words)

	Social affairs - French Prime minister - French Government Portal
		Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, in the presence of Azouz Begag, Catherine Vautrin and Jean-Louis Borloo, announced on 19 October the creation of the National Agency for Social Cohesion and Equal Opportunities.
		The Prime Minister, one year after the crisis that shook the banlieues, pointed out that ‘ensuring equal opportunities is a key focus of Government action’.
		France has mobilized support for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia on 26 December.
	www.premier-ministre.gouv.fr /en/thematique/social_affairs_m366 (277 words)

	France
		France’s second periodic report was due 30 June 1992; the third periodic report was due 30 June 1997.
		France’s third periodic report was due 13 January 1993; the fourth periodic report was due 13 January 1997.
		France’s second periodic report (CAT/C/17/Add.18) is scheduled for consideration at the Committee’s May 1998 session; the third periodic report was due 25 June 1996.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1997/vol6/france.htm (2668 words)

	Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC): France -- Transparency in Monetary and Financial Policies
		In France, transparency of financial policies is accorded a high priority by all financial agencies assessed and they are in observance of the good practices of the Code of Good Practices on Transparency in Monetary and Financial Policies.
		In late July 2000, the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry announced the formation of working groups on policy options to harmonize banking and insurance regulation and supervision as well as the means to enhance securities supervision.
		The five members of the CCMIP board are jointly appointed by the Minister of Social Affairs and by the Minister of Agriculture.
	www.imf.org /external/np/rosc/fra/trans.htm (3662 words)

	AlterNet: Global Affairs: France Takes a Right Turn
		Now France is faced with the nauseating choice between Le Pen and the odiferous Chirac, who has been named in eight separate investigations of political corruption, and who has been saved from likely indictment and trial only by his presidential immunity.
		In the days after Le Pen’s victory, France was engulfed by largely spontaneous demonstrations in the principal cities across the country, the first wave led by tens of thousands of lyceéns, most not of voting age, chanting their favorite slogan: “Votez escroc, pas Facho!” (“Vote for the crook, not the fascist!”).
		In Slovakia, the ultra-nationalist SNS of former prime minister Vladimir Meciar is mounting in the polls after a cosmetic political facelift (and thanks in part to Orban’s threats).
	www.alternet.org /globalaffairs/12971?IssueAreaID=28 (1085 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In April, he was booed and whistled at when he said at the annual conference of one of France's most important Muslim groups that Muslim women would have to go bare-headed when posing for pictures for their identity cards.
		Testifying before a governmental commission on Tuesday, François Fillon, the minister of social affairs, said France needed a new law to keep any display of religion out of schools.
		Luc Ferry, the minister of education, told the commission that a law banning all religious symbols "would be a very complicated process" that would "make martyrs and promote the establishment of Koranic schools." He said school principals preferred to resolve the issue quietly on a case-by-case basis.
	www.al-amana.org /article.php?id=244 (518 words)

	France warns mosques to avoid extremism / Interior minister says he'll expel anyone preaching 'radical sermons' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He is determined to create an "official Islam for France" that will take France's second-largest religion out of the "cellars and garages" and demonstrate that most Muslims are mainstream, law-abiding citizens.
		Last April, he was booed and whistled at when he said at the annual conference of one of France's most important Muslim groups that Muslim women would have to go bareheaded when posing for pictures for their identity cards.
		Testifying before a governmental commission on Tuesday, Francois Fillon, the minister of social affairs, said France needed a new law to keep any display of religion out of schools.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/20/MN66863.DTL (603 words)

	Cracks in the Coalition: Italian Minister: Iraq Invasion 'Mistake', Poland's President: Bush 'Deceived Us'
		ROME - An Italian minister broke ranks with his pro-war government on Iraq, telling a newspaper that last year's invasion could have been a mistake, and was in any case not the best thing to have done.
		Perhaps there were ways it could have been avoided," said European Affairs Minister Rocco Buttiglione in an interview published Thursday by the daily newspaper Il Messaggero.
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	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0318-02.htm (541 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - Communist Party of France: Statement about events in suburbs of major cities
		This explosion was detonated by the irresponsible policy of provocation of the Minister of the Interior, inspired by petty political motives and personal ambitions.
		He has used their own sufferings — the death of a child a few months ago, that of two youths a few days ago — to fuel an odious lumping together of men, women and families confronted with the greatest difficulties with criminality — which he has shown himself incapable of tackling in any case.
		The Minister of the Interior’s policy, recycling the ideas of the extreme right, is more than a complete failure — it kindles all the tensions and produces results that are the strict opposite of those it claims to secure.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/2177/1/131 (971 words)

	CNN - Verdicts in France tainted-blood trial 'intolerable' for victims - March 9, 1999
		PARIS (CNN) -- The acquittal Tuesday of two former French ministers accused of contributing to the infections of people with AIDS in a tainted-blood scandal was hailed as vindication by defendants, but decried as an outrage by victims and their relatives.
		A special tribunal found former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and his former Social Affairs Minister Georgina Dufoix innocent of manslaughter charges.
		Fabius, currently speaker of France's parliament, was accused of deliberately delaying the introduction of a U.S.-made HIV blood test until a French one was available months later.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9903/09/france.blood.02/index.html (627 words)

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