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	Christian Democracy - Christian Democratic Union
		Christian Democracy is a largely centrist political-social philosophy that is usually characterized by a communitarian leaning on the political spectrum.
		Broadly speaking, Christian Democracy is conservative in regard to moral or cultural issues, but with a strong social conscience (which might seem characteristic of left-leaning politics) that often affects economic policy.
		The position of the Roman Catholic Church on this matter was further clarified in a subsequent encyclical, Quadragesimo Anno by Pope Pius XI in 1931.
	www.cdusa.org /wiki/index.php?title=Christian_Democracy (991 words)

	France - MSN Encarta
		The overseas territories are French, which includes the island of Tahiti; New Caledonia; the Wallis and Futuna islands in the Pacific Ocean; and French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
		The overseas departments are Guadeloupe, a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea; Martinique, a Caribbean island; French Guiana, situated on the northern coast of South America; and Réunion, an island group in the Indian Ocean.
		The Union for French Democracy (UDF) was originally closely tied to former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568934_12/France.html (1925 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The fate of French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin hung in the balance yesterday after his center-right government was crushed in regional polls by a newly resurgent Socialist Party (PS).
		French President Jacques Chirac was contemplating a major Cabinet reshuffle in response to the stunning electoral rebuff, amid mounting speculation over whether he would make Raffarin the scapegoat for the debacle.
		Chirac's ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party and its junior coalition partner, the Union for French Democracy, were almost wiped from the regional map in Sunday's vote, as the PS took control of 24 out of France's 26 regional assemblies.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/front/archives/2004/03/30/2003108395/print (420 words)

	France (10/06)
		French military involvement in both Vietnam and Algeria combined with the mixed nature of the coalitions and a consequent lack of agreement caused successive cabinet crises and changes of government.
		French and EU analysts stress that longer-term measures must focus on reducing the future burden of ballooning public pension and health care budgets, as well as reducing labor-related taxes.
		An attack on French forces in Cote d’Ivoire in 2004 by government soldiers led to the departure of thousands of French nationals from that country, with some stating an intention to return to Cote d’Ivoire and others indicating that their departure was permanent.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3842.htm (5781 words)

	A More Perfect Union - History of Democracy
		This was almost a total democracy except for the fact that women and slaves (over 50% of the population) were not considered citizens and were not allowed to vote.
		Their government was a representative democracy, which had representatives from the nobility in the Senate and representatives from the commoners in the Assembly.
		The concept of democracy continued to be prevalent in Europe with the philosophies of an English philosopher by the name of John Locke and a French philosopher named Jean Jacques Rousseau.
	library.thinkquest.org /26466/history_of_democracy.html (1216 words)

	The Militant - 6/23/97 -- Workers Reject Austerity In French Elections
		Commenting on what the French rulers still need to take away from the working class in order to reverse their falling profit rates, an article in the May 26 Economist complained, "The whole of Francés bloated public service and vastly generous welfare system needs overhaul...
		"The Union of the Left was in power and Renault was owned by the government, but the PS and PCF did nothing to stop the closing of the plant and layoffs of thousands of workers," said Sayad, who had worked at Renault's Boulogne-Billancourt factory before it was shut down 10 years ago.
		The French stock markets suffered their steepest drop in four years the week following the first round of the election, but stabilized and rose a bit after the final vote.
	www.themilitant.com /1997/6124/6124_1.html (2104 words)

	The Review - Liberte, Egalite, Judeophobie
		While Keller waited for him, she was surrounded by a mob of jeunes des banlieues—or "suburban youth." This is the euphemism the French use for residents of the crime-infested ring of high-rise housing projects (HLMs) that were built on the outskirts of all French cities in the 1960s and ’70s.
		French anti-racists have been parsing the tiniest dictum of Le Pen, while Jewish blood has been spilled by the left in Athens, Istanbul, Rome, Vienna, and Paris." (Particularly by Palestinian terrorists.) There are indications that the government, too, is looking at the wrong target.
		Contemporary antisemitism involves French people who don’t like themselves, who have a post-national perspective, who are shedding their ‘Frenchness,’ the better to identify with the poor of the world.
	www.aijac.org.au /review/2002/276/france_antisem.html (3178 words)

	FRANCE: parliamentary elections Assemblée nationale, 2002
		The French went to the polls on 9 and 16 June 2002 to elect the 577 new members of the National Assembly.
		During the campaign, the new Union for the Presidential Majority (UMP), formed by the Rally for the Republic, Liberal Democracy and some members of the Union for French Democracy (UDF), asked voters to give President Chirac a clear and coherent majority in the National Assembly in order to avoid yet another legislative term of "cohabitation".
		The Union for French Democracy obtained 29 seats, as against a mere 21 for the Communists and Republicans.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2113_02.htm (557 words)

	French Political Parties
		The concept of French political blocs is important, because of the tendency in French politics to form coalitions after the first ballot elections.
		The "Presidentialization" of the French party system means that just like in America, parties are going to prioritize their program, organization and strategy to having their main candidate win the presidential elections.
		Created in 1978, the UDF (Union for French Democracy) is an umbrella party supporting several other smaller factions that opposed De Gaulle in the early years of the Fifth Republic.
	home.earthlink.net /~zappo/apgov/frenchparties.html (2548 words)

	France prepares to vote on EU constitution
		French Socialist Party's supporters attend a meeting at the Zenith Arena in Lille, northern France, calling to vote 'yes' on the European constitution referendum.
		Chirac's ruling center-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) is campaigning alongside its junior partner in government, the Union for French Democracy (UDF), as well as the opposition Socialist party (PS) and the Greens.
		Schroeder, whose country became the ninth EU member state to ratify the constitution on Friday, urged the French to "vote 'yes' with all their hearts and their heads" at a rally in southwest Toulouse.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-05/28/content_446591.htm (831 words)

	Left faces fresh rout as French return to polls - smh.com.au
		While this was reversed as France united against Mr Le Pen in the presidential run-off, it appears to have returned in time for the parliamentary vote, which will be fought between a record 8633 candidates (on average 15 a seat) in 577 constituencies.
		Under the French system, candidates who gain more than 12.5per cent of the vote in the first round automatically qualify for the second.
		Three parties - Mr Chirac's Gaullists, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Union for French Democracy - have rallied around Mr Chirac for the election, under the banner of the Union for the Presidential Majority (UMP).
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/06/07/1022982771530.html (587 words)

	French Opposition Insist on Fresh Debate on Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		France's conservative Union for French Democracy (UDF) party insists on fresh parliamentary debate regarding Turkey's bid to join the European Union, and calls on Parliament to vote on a proposal offering Turkey a "privileged partnership" instead of full membership..
		Chirac, under mounting pressure from both the opposition and his own party -- the Union for Popular Movement (UMP) -- has promised a referendum on Turkey's entry after the talks are concluded, a process expected to last a decade at least.
		French media comments said French Prime Minister Raffarin's government was set to work to prevent a vote in order not to embarrass Chirac at the Dec. 17 summit.
	www.aina.org /news/20041105133841.jsp (332 words)

	FRANCE: parliamentary elections Assemblée nationale, 1993
		As for the previous (June 1988) National Assembly elections, the two traditional conservative parties – the Rally for the Republic (RPR) and the Union for French Democracy (UDF) – formed an alliance, under the Union for France (UPF) banner, and fielded a common candidate in most of the single-member electoral districts.
		The RPR, led by former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, expressed strong opposition to a recent agricultural trade pact between the United States and the European Community, and to EC reforms of its common agricultural policy; it furthermore called for tighter controls on immigration.
		One of the foremost PS leaders, former Prime Minister Michel Rocard, proposed a “big bang” to restructure the French political left and move it closer to centrist policies.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2113_93.htm (586 words)

	European Union: French referendum \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		European leaders, who placed their heads in the sand after France's emphatic rejection of the EU constitution, are now likely to become experts in the thoughts of Lady Bracknell.
		May 30: The French no vote was down to a disavowal of the country's political class and loyalty towards France's social values, reports John Henley from Paris.
		May 27, Newsblog: French voters are now likely to reject a constitution France asked for, negotiated for and wrote.
	www.guardian.co.uk /eu/francereferendum/0,,1486725,00.html (795 words)

	Senators Adopt the Sarkozy Bill on Immigration \| Press Interpreter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Following former minister Jacques Pelletier, leader of the radical Democratic European and Social Rally party, and leader of the Union for French Democracy Michael Mercier’s initiatives, the purview cregarding the issue of residence permits to obtain a long-stay visa has been softened.
		By dispensation, the foreign spouse of a French national who has married in France will not be obliged to return to his or her own country to obtain the visa, if his or her entry into France was legal and the spouse can prove six months of conjugal life in France.
		With three Union for the Presidential Majority colleagues, Mr Pelletier also led a vote on an amendment allowing the parent of a sick foreign minor being treated in France to obtain a “humanitarian visa”, authorising a maximum six month stay.
	www.pressinterpreter.org /node/325 (518 words)

	Socialist Party wins European Parliament election in France
		The PS won 28.89 percent of the vote, ahead of the UMP with 16.64 percent and the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF) with 11.95 percent, according to final results released by the French Interior Ministry.
		A total of 57.2 percent of the French electorate abstained from voting, higher than the 53.2 percent in 1999.
		France has 78 representatives in the European Parliament of the enlarged 25-nation European Union, instead of 87 seats in the last parliament elected in 1999.
	en.ce.cn /World/Europe/t20040615_1075367.shtml (266 words)

	Internet Challenges French Polling Laws
		If these figures are confirmed by voters on Sunday, this would mean a major setback for President Jacques Chirac's own party, the rightist Republican Gathering (RPR), and its partner, Union for French Democracy (UDF), which held five out of six seats in the outgoing assembly.
		The French political system is one of the most tainted by polling, second only to the United States' in use and misuse of surveys.
		French expatriates like Renaud Soufflot, an economy professor who teaches in Norway, also copied and re-posted survey results and analysis.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/cyber/week/053097france.html (1495 words)

	USATODAY.com - Unlikely threat to EU charter? The French (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		France, long a driving force behind the European Union (EU), is increasingly hostile to the charter, a key symbol of Europe's march toward integration.
		But as the government went into high gear this week to try to turn the tide, public debate suggests that French doubts are rooted less in the legal text than in skepticism about the very idea of a united Europe.
		The government fears that voters will use the referendum to express dissatis-faction with its performance: 66% of respondents to one poll this week said that the economic and social situation would be an "important" or "decisive" factor when they made their choice.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-03-31-french-eu_x.htm (959 words)

	USATODAY.com - Secret test revealed loopholes in French airport security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		PARIS (AFP) — A confidential test carried out at French airports last year revealed dramatic security loopholes, after a passenger carrying fake explosives and weapons managed to board a dozen separate flights, a French news magazine reported on Monday.
		The test was carried out by the French civil aviation authorities as part of a general audit of airport security, following a request from a deputy charged with preparing the 2004 transport budget.
		Charles de Courson, a deputy from the Union for French Democracy (UDF), the junior partner in government, submitted his confidential findings to the interior ministry in in October 2003, the newspaper reported.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/news/2004-06-15-french-security_x.htm (400 words)

	A short history of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From 1604 the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon are settled by French colonists.
		After the capture of French North America by Britain, the islands form a separate French colony as Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.
		In 1946 the islands become a French overseas territory, but between 1976 and 1985 the status has been changed into a French overseas département.
	www.electionworld.org /history/saintpierre.htm (192 words)

	Liberte, Egalite, Stupidite - French government National Review - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The ruling Socialist party is tarnished by scandal, the Left generally is splintered, and the French economy is in a slowdown.
		Against a divided Left, the Right sought to present a united front called the Alliance, soon defunct, consisting of candidates from the RPR and the center-right Union of French Democracy (UDF).
		The RPR proper-led until April by Seguin-changed its position from outright opposition to the EU to support for a barebones Union; that is another slate.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_12_51/ai_54864497 (941 words)

	France: Anti-terrorism legislation tramples on civil liberties
		It was passed by 373 votes in favour (by the ruling UMP [Union for a Popular Movement] and the centre-right UDF [Union for French Democracy]).
		Another significant measure of the bill is the lengthening from 10 to 15 years of the period by which a naturalised French person can be stripped of his or her nationality.
		Along with greatly increased immigration control and added police responsibilities given to France’s 36,000 mayors of communes, the basic administrative unit and arm of the French state, the ruling élites are preparing to counter the immense anger and resistance developing among the youth and the working class.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/december2005/051205trampleson.htm (1599 words)

	Debate Begins in France on Religion in the Schools
		The conference of French Catholic bishops and France's tiny Sikh minority oppose the measure; French Jewish leaders are in favor.
		Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin was widely quoted in the French press as warning in a cabinet meeting that the measure was misunderstood abroad and would damage French relations with Muslim-dominated countries.
		A leader of the Union for French Democracy, François Bayrou, said that a ban on all visible religious symbols would violate the French Constitution and European Union human rights regulations.
	www.personal.ecu.edu /conradtd/pols3232/3232Sp04-024.htm (676 words)

	Association for Union Democracy -- union democracy for a strong labor movement.
		Association for Union Democracy -- union democracy for a strong labor movement.
		She reflected on the efforts to reform the Teamsters and fight corruption at AUD's Conference on Confronting Corruption in Labor Unions in October 2006.
		His talk at the October 2006 AUD conference on Confronting Corruption in Labor Unions argued for a broader perspective on union democracy.
	www.uniondemocracy.com (1888 words)

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