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PARISThe French Minister of the Interior criticized Wednesday two legislative amendments adopted by the legislator prohibiting parents from wearing visible religious symbols when accompanying their children on…

Standard Rafale F3-R showing its weapons, targeting pods: Image via DGAThe French Air and Space Army and the French Navy have signed the operational commissioning agreement for the F3-R standard, the most advanced version of the Rafale.The…

Published on: 03/17/2021 - 13:38 The French Senate is due to vote next week on a bill setting the age of sexual consent…

Published on: 03/13/2021 - 18:02 Demonstrations took place this Saturday in Lyon and other cities to protest against a…

PARIS, March 4 (Reuters) - A French bill that allegedly undermines the freedom to circulate images identifying police officers has been watered down by senators after violent street protests forced the government to withdraw.Lawmakers…

PARIS (Reuters) - A French bill that allegedly undermines the freedom to circulate images identifying police officers has been watered down by senators after violent street protests forced the government to withdraw.Lawmakers involved in…

Published on: 04/02/2021 - 14:36 After two days of confused debates, the upper house of the French parliament voted…

COURBEVOIE, France - (COMMERCIAL THREAD) - The CCAF is an ambitious project aimed at setting up an efficient standard system so that all border control activities can be properly coordinated and harmonized. It will be deployed in…

IDEMIA and Sopra Steria will soon deploy its biometric traveler processing technology at the borders of France. The two companies have signed a contract with the French Interior Ministry and will start rolling out the new Standard Border…

The French Senate on Thursday approved a new bill to protect minors from sexual abuse following a controversy over incest. The bill criminalizes the act of an adult inflicting any act of sexual penetration on minors under the age of 13,…

In a letter to the president and members of the French Senate Law Commission, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, urges senators to make substantial changes to the draft law on general security to make it…

UPDATE: France will return 27 objects from the colonial era to museums in Benin and Senegal within a year, following a unanimous vote by the National Assembly on December 17. CORRECTION: This article incorrectly stated that the French…

The report, which is the product of several months of hearings and investigations by a Senate commission of inquiry, also accuses Jérôme Salomon, a senior health official, of having tried to cover up the alleged misstep.Salomon heads the…

ANKARA - Anadolu Agency On November 26, the Azerbaijani parliament criticized a French Senate resolution calling for the recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh as a "republic".class = "cf"> "This approach by the…

BAKU, AZERBAIDJAN - Azerbaijani officials have criticized a resolution passed by the French Senate that urges the French government to recognize the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent republic. The…

Azerbaijani officials criticized a resolution passed by the French Senate urging the French government to recognize the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent republic. The resolution, adopted on Wednesday, is symbolic…

WASHINGTON DC - The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) today welcomed French Senate vote 305-1 recognizing the independence of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), calling on the US administration and congressional…

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The French Senate voted 305 to 1 to adopt a resolution calling for the recognition of the Republics of Artsakh by France. The resolution was drafted by senators Bruno Retailleau, Patrick Kanner, Hervé Marseille, Éliane Assassi, Guillaume…

PARIS (AP) - The French Senate voted on Wednesday to urge the government to recognize the disputed Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh ... PARIS (AP) - The French…

French senators welcome the adoption of a resolution recognizing Artsakh The French Senate recognized the independence of the Republic of Artsakh on Wednesday by 305 votes to 1, after a debate lasting nearly two hours in the…

Published on: 17/11/2020 - 18:41 The French Senate has approved the draft 2021 social security budget after adding a…

The return of African cultural objects from French institutions has been a hotly debated subject in recent years which has sometimes gained momentum and then calmed down and slowed down again. Today, three years after President Emmanuel…

In a unanimous vote on November 4, 343 French senators approved a bill to return 27 colonial-era objects from museum collections to Benin and Senegal within one year. The bill concerns 26 royal objects looted in 1892 by French troops from…

NHIndustries and its partner companies (Airbus Helicopters, Leonardo and Fokker), have signed a firm contract with the NATO Helicopter Management Agency (NAHEMA) for the development of an improved version of the…

Photo: AFP The election of the two members of the Senate of French Polynesia is contested before the French Constitutional Court. Last month, a 700-member electoral college - made up mostly of city officials - chose Lana…

The results of the poll show that the right, which already held the majority, has strengthened its position. The candidates of the ruling La République en Marche (LREM) party were more successful than expected, and there were also positive…

Right-wing and center parties retained their majority in the French Senate on Sunday, Senate President Gérard Larcher said. Nearly half of France's 348 Senate seats were up for grabs on Sunday as an electoral college of around 92,000 votes…

Nearly half the seats in the French Senate are up for grabs on Sunday in an election that is expected to leave the chamber dominated by conservatives and deliver another electoral blow to President Emmanuel Macron's…

As the results gradually came in on Sunday evening, Senate President Gerard Larcher of the Republican Party tweeted that the center-right majority was intact and that he would run for another term as leader of the Senate "for restore the…

PARIS (AP) - France's main conservative party appeared poised to retain control of the Senate and the Greens made further gains in a by-election on Sunday, posing a new challenge to President Emmanuel Macron's struggling centrist…

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PARIS (AP) - France's main conservative party appeared poised to retain control of the Senate and the Greens made further gains in a by-election on Sunday, posing a new challenge to President Emmanuel Macron's struggling centrist…

A commission of inquiry into the matter in the French Senate, whose report was presented today (Friday, September 18) aims to "obtain on the rails ”, and make them fairer for users and the State.The report also mentions plans for the early…

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - Taiwanese envoy to Paris, Wu Chih-chung (吳志 中), on Wednesday (September 9) became Taiwan's first high representative to speak…

Airbus A330MRTT Phenix of the French Air Force The Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, welcomes the order on August 25, 2020 by the General Directorate of Armaments (DGA) of 3 Airbus A330s, announced on June 9 as part of the…

The Senate voted in favor of the law by 240 votes to 25, with 80 abstentions.The bill had called for the state of emergency to be extended until July 24, but the Senate approved it until July 10 only. It can be further extended if…

Less than a year after projecting the first NX70 micro-drones from Novadem in external operations (OPEX), the DGA (General Directorate of Defense) placed a new order with the company to double its fleet. This new acquisition thus…

PARISAs COVID-19 maintains its grip in Europe, with France as one of its centerpieces, the Senate has passed a bill that will give the government expanded authority in various areas.He travels to the lower house…

Published on: 03/20/2020 - 07:41 French senators have approved a bill giving the government special powers to fight the…

Senators passed the bill after first reading Tuesday, February 4. transport staff.The new text would oblige the authorities organizing transport - for example Ile-de-France Mobilités in the Paris region - to define what a “minimum service”…

The consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal has expanded its service portfolio in France with valuation services. The launch of the Firm's Valuation and Modeling group brings the number of professions in France to seven. Its advisory team…

French Catholic bishops have fiercely opposed the bioethics bill since its introduction six months ago.…

PARIS (Reuters) - The French Senate voted on Wednesday in favor of a bill that would give single women and lesbian couples access to in vitro fertilization (IVF), the first major social reform in President Emmanuel's term. Macron.FILE…

PARIS (Reuters) - The French Senate voted on Wednesday in favor of a bill that would allow single women and lesbian couples to access in vitro fertilization (IVF), the first major social reform in President Emmanuel's tenure Macron.FILE…

Suzanne Houde is fed up with the lack of services in French in the territorial health system. The soon to be 60-year-old has been in Yellowknife for 22 years with her husband and during that time Houde says she has only seen…

As digital currencies transform the world, concepts like Bitcoin continue to infiltrate university courses and higher education around the world. The French Ministry of National Education's recently published economic and social…

PARIS The French Senate on Wednesday approved a controversial bill banning mothers of children from wearing Muslim headscarves during school trips.A total of 163 senators voted in favor of the bill while 114…

September 27, 2019 at 8:00 a.m. The French Ministry of Education published a call for proposals last summer for “the design, creation and supply of a voice assistant to teach English to primary school!-->…

A bust of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has been found in the basement of the French Senate, a secret kept for 75 years, according to a surprising investigation by The French newspaper Le Monde.But how he got there remains a mystery, and it's a…

PARIS - The French Senate announced Wednesday that it was investigating the discovery of a bust of Hitler, a vestige of the Nazi occupation of Paris, in the cellar of the upper house of Parliament. Le Monde newspaper revealed that the…

PARIS (Reuters) - The French Senate on Thursday approved a tax on large tech companies, potentially opening a new front in a trade feud between Washington and the European Union.President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered an investigation…

French senators backed off on a bill that would have increased the possible legal timeframe for an abortion from 12 to 14 weeks.The bill was adopted last Friday but on Tuesday the French Senate changed its mind during a second hearing of…

French senators approve a bill to restore Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral to exactly as it was before the fire.Photo © www.bigstockphoto.com French senators have stipulated that the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris must be!-->…

Since devastating fire which destroyed sections of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France on April 15, we saw a plethora of proposed redesigns, some of which include a glassy arrow, a filled with trees roof, and one rooftop swimming pool…

Following the fire that ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in April, an intense debate ensued over whether the beloved monument should be faithfully restored or rebuilt to embody a more modern aesthetic. The feud…

Members of the French Senate say the fire-ravaged Notre-Dame must be restored "in the same way visually as before", effectively excluding proposals submitted by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye and British architectural firm Foster + Partners…

A 300-foot-high flame sculpture, a beam of light and a tower that resembles a spaceship are among the bizarre proposals put forward by the architects to replace the legendary spire of Notre Dame, which collapsed during the…

PARISThe upper house of the French parliament passed a bill on Thursday banning mothers from wearing headscarves when accompanying students on school outings.The bill was introduced in the nation's Senate by the…

Published on: 05/14/2019 - 13:57Amended: 05/14/2019 - 15:25 Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer's school reform…

Published on: 04/09/2019 - 16:28Amended: 04/09/2019 - 4:35 PM Yellow vests activists called for new protests in Paris…

Published on: 03/21/2019 - 15:41 In a new turn of the Benalla affair, the French Senate asked the judicial authorities…

The French Senate condemned the "failings at the heart of the state" which led to scandals involving President Emmanuel Macron's favorite bodyguard, Alexandre Benalla, notably his arrangement of private security contracts worth more…

PARIS (Reuters) - The French Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill to tighten controls on telecommunications equipment, following a U.S. warning about Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.FILE PHOTO: A Huawei sign is pictured at a store in…

Saab has signed a contract with the Direction de la Maintenance Aéronautique (DMAé) of the French Ministry of Defense for the support of the Giraffe AMB surface!-->…

The yellow vests protests have become the biggest political crisis of the Macron presidency.Paris: Protesters of "yellow vests" returned in force to the streets of France this weekend, clashing with police in several cities…

Protesters of "yellow vests" returned in force to the streets of France this weekend, clashing with police in several cities and pushing their way into a ministry in Paris using a forklift.The Home Office estimated 50,000 demonstrators…

A major climate report released in October found the shift to a green economy could disrupt society, but French senators told scientist they were 'powerless' to respond Just months before protests erupted across France, the country's…

Rookie MP Amanda Simard says she is leaving the PC Ontario caucus to sit as an independent just days after publicly denouncing her party's cuts to French-language services. Simard's decision was announced in a…

A senior official working for the French Senate has been arrested on suspicion of espionage on behalf of North Korea.The Associated Press quoted an anonymous court official who said the employee was arrested on Sunday based on information…

A new public security communication system must be deployed in advance of the major events that will take place in Paris in 2023 and 2024; credit:…

French Minister for Gender Equality Marlène Schiappa has died legislation which will impose significant fines when sexual harassment is committed on the streets and in public transport, but contrary to rumors, it will not penalize prolonged…

Offers changes by the French Senate's Law Commission to a controversial and widely criticized draft law on asylum and immigration could make matters worse and open the door to an abusive and illegal exclusion of refugees. The…

Daniel Buren, whose 260 striped candy columns at the Royal Palace were themselves condemned as a carbuncle, opposed the temporary work which was intended as a tribute to his. Agence France Presse | By Agence France Presse, Paris…

PARIS - The French Ministry of the Armed Forces has vowed to closely monitor the effect a new budget rule may have on multi-year weapons programs following the passage by Parliament of a law to cap spending public."The Ministry of the Armed…

Cairo intends to buy the Rafale fighters with a loan, but ministry officials are unwilling to grant the loan because Egypt had borrowed a huge amount to finance its arms purchase from France. A report…

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron's upstart centrist party suffered its first electoral blow on Sunday, as traditional conservatives dominated Senate elections amid growing disenchantment with Macron's leadership.…

The vote, which resulted in a disappointing performance for the French president's upstart party, comes as Macron struggles to enact unpopular labor reforms. French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the…

After suffering a dismal presidential campaign earlier this year, France's conservative Republicans enjoyed a strong performance in Sunday's senatorial election. The Conservatives will benefit from 150 seats in the French Senate until…

PARIS (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron suffered his first electoral setback on Sunday when his La République en Marche (LREM) party won fewer seats than expected in the French senatorial elections.French President Emmanuel Macron…

On May 5, 2015, members of the lower house of the French Parliament approved the “French Patriot Act”, or “Intelligence billDespite serious concerns about users' rights to privacy and freedom of expression. From today until June 4,…

Published on: 03/31/2015 - 15:12Amended: 03/31/2015 - 15:27 The French Senate has removed key sections of a…

As if French President François Hollande did not have enough misfortunes, elections for the senate dealt him another blow. Three years after Holland's socialists won the very first majority for the left in the upper house, the right…

Published on: 04/24/2014 - 10:35Amended: 04/24/2014 - 12:00 Ségolène Royal, former companion of French President…

The French Ministry of Finance published a report on money laundering and drew particular attention to the risks of buying vineyards abroad.…

Published on: 05/13/2013 - 17:06Amended: 05/13/2013 - 6:12 PM French socialist Ségolène Royal said on Monday that…