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	Government of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Given France's runoff voting system, this means that the presidential candidate is required to obtain a nationwide majority of non-blank votes at either the first or second round of balloting, which presumably implies that the president is somewhat supported by at least half of the voting population; this gives him considerable legitimacy.
		France uses a civil law system; that is, law arises primarily from written statutes; judges are not to make law, but merely to interpret it (though the amount of judge interpretation in certain areas makes it equivalent to case law).
		France does not recognize religious law, nor does it recognize religious beliefs or morality as a motivation for the enactment of prohibitions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Government_of_France (5911 words)

	CBC News Indepth: France - Student Protests
		France is a country where mass protest has proven to be a potent way of dealing with perceived threats to employment laws that are among the most rigid in Europe.
		France's GDP is rising at an annual rate of just 1.5 per cent – the result, corporate leaders say, of labour policies that make it increasingly difficult to compete.
		France's place in the EU is another matter.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/france-studentprotests (933 words)

	Venice, England, Parliament, and France
		Monarchy by the king with the advice of Parliament was becoming government by Parliament with the king as supervisor.
		He controlled Parliament by destroying much of the power of the nobles and avoiding expenses requiring approval.
		She felt her mission was to have the lazy and cowardly Dauphin (heir to the French throne) crowned and to drive the English out of France.
	www.kvhigh.com /learning/history/venice.html (1062 words)

	French Alp Ski Ban
		Further, France has worked with the five other Alpine nations and the European Union on the "Convention of the Protection of the Alps." This agreement prohibits future development of ski stations, but does not directly effect existing ski resorts.
		The European Parliament warned that development in the Alps was reaching the limits of being environmentally acceptable, and noted furthermore that the 1992 winter Olympics in Albertville, France caused "serious environmental damage." This message came too late for the residents and the environment of the Savoy.
		Decision Breadth: 5 (France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and Italy) The French government decision may be used as a bargaining chip in their future negotiations on the Convention of the Protection of the Alps.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/france.htm (2954 words)

	French Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The French Parliament (French: Parlement français) or Parliament of France is the deliberative and legislative branch (parliament) of the Government of France.
		The French Parliament, as an legislative body, should not confused with the various parlements of the Ancien Régime in France, which were courts of justice and tribunals with certain political functions.
		The Parliament, in the modern meaning of the term, appeared in France during the French Revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parliament_of_France (387 words)

	France (Harpers.org) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		France was trying to figure out what to do with 500,000 tons of meal contaminated with animals parts that can no longer be fed to livestock for fear of spreading mad cow disease; the million tons of animal parts produced each year by the French meat industry will have to be disposed of as well.
		Three quarters of respondents in France and Germany and 64 percent of Britons felt that U.S. actions would have a negative impact on the world, and for the first time it appeared that an international dislike of Bush is metamorphosing into a dislike of Americans in general.
		In France far-right groups were criticized for serving pork soup to the poor with the intent of discriminating against observant Muslims and Jews.
	www.harpers.org /France.html (3576 words)

	"Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century", essay by Tyler Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In France, the opposite was happening as Louis XIV strengthened his own office while weakening the general assembly of France, the Estates General.
		In France, on the other hand, Louis XIV took absolutism to extremes, claiming to be a servant of God (the "divine right of Kings") and dissolving France's only general assembly.
		In France, around the middle of the 17th century, a revolution against the current monarch, Cardinal Mazarin, by the various and scattered parlements, who wanted the right to claim royal edicts unconstitutional, and nobility, who hoped to gain power by sanctioning the monarch or removing him from office, threw France into disarray.
	www.june29.com /Tyler/nonfiction/absolute.html (833 words)

	Counter-Proliferation Policy and France's New Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		France also worries about WMD proliferation, but it has taken a different approach to counter-proliferation, an approach that may now gain greater force as a new, unified government takes power in Paris.
		The new French Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, reiterated in recent speech to the Parliament that France recognizes that new threats are emerging and upheld the goal of closing any loopholes in the international community's process for dealing with WMD risk.
		France would prefer to treat the causes of proliferation by eliminating the incentives to acquire WMD.
	www.brookings.edu /fp/cuse/analysis/khatib.htm (401 words)

	France in the EU - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		France in the EU France is a member of the European Union
		2006-10-12 12:00:44 France's parliament provoked protests from Turkey and dissent from the European Union and its own government on Thursday when it voted for a law to jail those who deny that the 1915-1917 massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks constituted genocide.
		France, Germany urge Russia to ratify energy charter
	www.eubusiness.com /France (872 words)

	France News.Net
		Youths have set a bus alight in a Paris suburb, as France prepares to mark the anniversary of a wave of rioting that swept its cities last year.
		Tour de France organisers hope they have a thriller on their hands after unveiling the route map for next year's cycling showpiece event.
		France News.Net is part of an international network of news sites, dedicated to the major regions, countries and cities of the world.
	francenews.net (967 words)

	SPEECH ON IRAQ - THE RIGHT HONORABLE CHRIS PATTEN, EUROPEAN UNION COMMISSIONER FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS, EUROPEAN ...
		Parliament colleagues in paying tribute to the bravery and dedication of Sergio Vieira de Mello and his staff.
		Our first priority was to provide humanitarian assistance and I would like to pay tribute to the work of ECHO (European Commission Humanitarian Office) who have maintained their work activities in Iraq before and during the entire crisis, undeterred by the military conflict and recent attacks on humanitarian personnel.
		This Parliament should be proud of the work that ECHO does professionally and bravely.
	www.eurunion.org /news/press/2003/2003055.htm (1288 words)

	CNN.com - France toughens antiterror laws - November 1, 2001
		The new controls were approved in reaction to the September 11 terror attacks, the government arguing that dramatic action was required.
		France has been concerned about an attack by Islamic militants on French soil with the U.S. Embassy in Paris named as a target.
		Officials worried that the September 11 attacks could have repercussions in France and immediately put in place a broad set of antiterrorism measures it calls "Vigipirate" to check identity papers and investigate suspicious activity.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/11/01/inv.france.measures (516 words)

	CNN.com - PM: France 'at an hour of truth' - Nov 8, 2005
		PARIS, France (CNN) -- As midnight struck in France a government-declared state of emergency started, triggering curfews in cities and towns after 12 days of the worst civil unrest the nation has seen in decades.
		In remarks to the National Assembly, France's parliament, de Villepin acknowledged the social unrest was the result of France's failure to provide hope to thousands of young people, most of them French citizens, the children of Muslim immigrants from northern Africa.
		France's national unemployment rate is about 10 percent, but in areas hit by rioting the level is nearer 40 percent.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/11/08/france.riots/index.html (1128 words)

	Turkish Parliament Condemns France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The law, which was voted through parliament by a handful of Socialists - most MPs abstained - has caused a rift in French-Turkish relations that could result in the loss of potential money-spinning contracts.
		Jacques Chirac attempted to heal the divide earlier in the week by apologising to Prime Minister Erdogan, but the parliament has insisted that some form of sanction should be applied to France until the law is taken fully off the agenda.
		France has claimed that acknowledgement of genocide is a pre-requisite for Turkey's entry into the EU, which is looking less likely by the day after the Parliament's attempt to force through this law coupled with Turkey's riposte.
	www.paris-link-home.com /news/121/ARTICLE/1297/2006-10-20.html (579 words)

	News From France
		The second round of voting in France’s legislative elections on June 16 gave President Chirac’s center-right UMP (Union pour la majorité présidentielle, or Union for the Presidential Majority) 354 seats out of 577 in the country’s National Assembly.
		France’s Senate, or upper house of parliament, also has a conservative majority at the moment.
		France condemns most strongly this new terrorist attack this morning in Megiddo, near Haifa, in Israel.(...) Such barbarous acts dishonor those who are guilty of them and are a disservice to the cause they claim to defend.
	www.info-france-usa.org /publi/nff/0208/nff.htm (746 words)

	Pave France - The British Need More Parking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		France will hold a referendum on Turkey's entry into the EU when the issue arises, and any further EU enlargement will also be subject to a popular vote, President Jacques Chirac said yesterday.
		The president's support for a referendum is aimed at preventing French anxiety about Turkish membership [infra] influencing another referendum, on the EU constitution, which will be held next year.
		He had asked the government to prepare a [French] constitutional amendment to guarantee that any enlargement of the EU - after the entry of Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia, which is already under way - should be put to a public vote rather than decided by parliament.
	www.pavefrance.com /blog/archives/000823.html (632 words)

	Full Coverage: Turkish parliament condemns French ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Turkey's state broadcasting watchdog has recommended a boycott of French-made programs and films in protest at the French parliament's support for a bill that would make it a crime to deny the Armenian...
		Turkey's state broadcasting watchdog has recommended a boycott of French-made programmes and films in protest at the French parliament's support for a bill that would make it a crime to deny the Armenian...
		Turkey's Parliament backed on Tuesday a declaration condemning the French National Assembly's approval of a draft Bill that would make it a crime to deny Armenians suffered genocide by Ottoman Turks in 1915.
	www.topix.net /world/france?full=3afc7f8383 (315 words)

	Feminist Daily News 6/23/1997: Women Win 63 Seats in France's Parliament
		France's traditional term for a politician, "homme politique", which translates to political man, no longer describes the members of the National Assembly.
		Before the elections, France ranked last among the fifteen countries in the European Union in its percentage of female lawmakers.
		The country's proportion of women in the National Assembly nearly doubled to 10.9%, allowing France to climb one spot to the fourteenth position among EU countries, with Greece now occupying the last position.
	www.feminist.org /news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=4092 (393 words)

	BREITBART.COM - French Parliament OKs Anti-Terror Measures
		France's parliament approved an anti-terrorism bill Thursday that will boost the use of video surveillance and allow police more time to question terror suspects.
		The bill, sponsored by law-and-order Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, passed its final hurdle in parliament with the vote at the National Assembly.
		France already has some of Europe's toughest anti-terrorism laws, enacted after a wave of deadly attacks in the 1990s by Algerian Islamic militants.
	www.breitbart.com /news/2005/12/22/D8ELCDG80.html (288 words)

	ZAMAN DAILY NEWSPAPER (2006101837470)
		The Turkish parliament issued an indirect condemnation of the French parliament’s acceptance of a bill criminalizing the denial of the so-called Armenian genocide Tuesday.
		The common declaration of the parliament emphasized that acceptance of the bill would cause irreversible damages to political, economic and military relations between Turkey and France.
		Gul said if the bill became operant in France, despite all their warnings, it would be a great shame for France and irreversibly harm political, economic and military relations between the two countries.
	www.zaman.com /?bl=international&alt=&trh=20061018&hn=37470 (430 words)

	France Recognizes the Armenian Genocide
		PARIS, May 29 (Reuters) - France's parliament passed a bill on Friday publicly recognising the killing of Armenians by Turks in 1915 as genocide.
		There are about 300,000 people of Armenian origin in France, most of whom are descendants of survivors of the 1915 killings in which Armenians say 1.5 million of their compatriots were massacred by Turks.
		Turkey says thousands of Turks and Armenians died in fighting between the two communities in 1915 in what is now eastern Turkey and Syria and said on Thursday that the bill would be a grave mistake.
	www.cilicia.com /armo10i_france.html (843 words)

	JURIST - Paper Chase: France parliament passes tough immigration bill
		The measure also eliminates the right of illegal immigrants to automatically stay in France after living there for 10 years and mandates that migrants must learn French and sign a contract promising to respect the French way of life.
		Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy [BBC profile; official profile, in French] was a strong advocate for the bill [JURIST report], saying that France needs to select the immigrants it needs and that the measure would bring France more in line with other countries.
		The new law has been criticized by many people from France's former African colonies, including Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade [official website, in French; BBC profile], because citizens from these countries make up a great deal of France's immigrant population.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /paperchase/2006/06/france-parliament-passes-tough.php (356 words)

	Rich Lowry on Europe on National Review Online
		Josep Borrell, president of the EU parliament, said, “France decides only for France.” But the constitution is supposed to be approved by all 25 EU member nations.
		Chirac could plausibly argue that France would fulfill its national destiny by ratifying the constitution, the drafting of which was led by — of course — a former French president.
		The parliament’s claim to represent anyone in the first place is tenuous since its elections routinely draw a pathetic turnout.
	www.nationalreview.com /lowry/lowry200505311439.asp (651 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.
		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.
		The court was asked to untangle a complex file detailing the state of medical knowledge about AIDS in the mid-1980s and what France was doing to fight the disease.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9903/09/france.blood.02/index.html (627 words)

	Stories Tagged 'france' » Netscape.com
		In so far as historical truth can be established at all, it must be found by unfettered historical research, with historians arguing over the evidence and the facts, testing and disputing each other's claims without fear of prosecution or persecution.
		(via guardian.co.uk) – It is a bewildering reality that France sees Turkey's refusal to acknowledge what happened to the Armenians as an obstacle to membership, while at the same time continuing to regard its own wartime behaviour as somehow irreproachable.
		(via news.yahoo.com) – France has sought to calm an uproar in Turkey and in the European Union after the French parliament approved a bill that would make it a crime to deny that the 1915-17 massacres of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks constituted genocide.
	www.netscape.com /tag/france (953 words)

	Address by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to members of the European Parliament, Strasbourg, France
		Especially, the European Parliament has continued to take keen interest in the situation of Tibet and adopted a number of resolutions expressing its grave concerns about the violations of human rights in Tibet.
		Reflecting the increasing concern of the European Parliament the EU has been raising the violations of human rights in Tibet at successive sessions of the UN Commission on Human Rights and expressed its concerns at the UN General Assemblies.
		On behalf of six million Tibetans, I take this opportunity to thank the members of the Parliament, the Commission and the member countries for the continued sympathy and support.
	www.tibet.com /Proposal/strasbourg2.html (2232 words)

	BakuTODAY.net - Azerbaijani Parliament appeals to France Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Parliament’s vice-speaker Bahar Muradova said France Parliament is presumably to ratify the law.
		She said if it happens, the parliament will work out statement and send it to France Parliament.
		It is also mentioned in the statement that the adoption of the law by France shows its position as OSCE Minsk Group co-chair.
	bakutoday.net /view.php?d=27753 (162 words)

	Catholic World News : France bans cloning, allows stem cell research
		Paris, Jul. 09, 2004 (CWNews.com) - France's parliament on Friday approved a ban on human cloning, but allowed embryonic stem-cell research for a five-year test period.
		It appears that in France it is perfectly acceptable to kill an unborn human baby via abortion and either throw away its pieces and parts or use them for stem cell research.
		France, France, wake up and smell the fleurs de lis!
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=30739 (313 words)

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