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| | Canadian Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The presiding officer of the Senate, known as the Speaker, is appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister. | | | The Senate is an appointed body, consisting of 105 members appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister. | | | The Senate is referred to as 'the upper house' of Parliament, and the House of Commons 'the lower house'. |
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| | U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > John R. French, Sergeant at Arms, 1869-1879 |
| | The large number of Senate investigations during this period placed great demands on Sergeant at Arms French to serve subpoenas, including one to his second cousin, Benjamin Brown French, a former clerk of the House of Representatives and commissioner of public buildings. | | | His involvement in local political activities led to his election to the Ohio house of representatives, where he served as a Republican in 1858 and 1859. | | | By the end of his first two years on the job, however, the Senate raised his salary to equal that of the secretary. |
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http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/SAA_John_French.htm
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Europe / French prime minister wins Senate seat |
| | Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin won a seat in French Senate elections Sunday, a post that could be a useful fallback if there is truth to the rumors that his days as government chief are numbered. | | | Sunday's indirect election replenished one-third of France's 321-seat Senate and added 10 new seats as part of reforms meant to usher in a younger group of lawmakers. | | | PARIS --Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin won a seat in French Senate elections Sunday, a post that could be a useful fallback if there is truth to the rumors that his days as government chief are numbered. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2004/09/26/french_prime_minister_wins_senate_seat?mode=PF
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| | List of Presidents of the French Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | With the new constitution of the Fifth Republic in 1959, the older name of Senate was restored. | | | Although there had been Senates in both the First and Second Empires, these had not technically been legislative bodies, but rather advisory bodies on the model of the Roman Senate. | | | The Second Republic returned to a unicameral system after 1848, but soon after the establishment of the Third Republic in 1870, a Senate was established as the upper chamber. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_French_Senate
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| | "French Senate Asks Ex-Premier's Trial in HIV Affair" |
| | The Assembly and Senate resolutions will be submitted to the Supreme Court, which will determine whether there are sufficient grounds to bring the three former ministers to a trial. | | | The French Senate decided yesterday to abide by the recommendation of the National Assembly and put former prime minister, Laurent Fabius, on trial for the scandal involving HIV-infected blood products. | | | The upper house vote cleared the way for Fabius, now leader of the governing Socialist Party, and two former ministers to stand trial before a parliamentary High Court on charges of neglecting to assist persons in danger. |
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| | FRENCH SENATE APPROVES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION |
| | The measure was finally adopted by the Senate, the upper house of the French Parliament, by a vote of 164 for, 40 against and 4 abstentions. | | | Armenian Genocide bill proponents, Senators Gilbert Charboux, Bernard Piras, and Gerard Collomb were among those speaking forcefully in support of the measure, while the Senate's France-Turkey Friendship Caucus Chairman Jacques-Richard Delong led the opposition. | | | At the time of the vote, over 1,000 Armenians were present at a vigil outside the Senate building. |
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http://www.anca.org/press_releases/press_releases.php?prid=43
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| | France - Free Encyclopedia |
| | Senators are chosen by an electoral college for 9-year terms, and one-third of the Senate is renewed every 3 years. | | | The Senate's legislative powers are limited; the National Assembly has the last word in the event of a disagreement between the two houses. | | | Its deputies are directly elected to 5-year terms, and all seats are voted on in each election. |
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http://www.wacklepedia.com/f/fr/france_1.html
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Protester strips in French Senate |
| | A man stripped in the French Senate, revealing the word "non" written on his chest, a show of opposition Thursday to the European Union constitution. | | | The man was unharmed after jumping several feet from the public gallery onto the Senate floor, officials at the upper house of parliament said. | | | PARIS -- A man stripped in the French Senate, revealing the word "non" written on his chest, a show of opposition Thursday to the European Union constitution. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/12/protester_strips_in_french_senate
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| | Turks.US Daily News - French Senate Approves Hijab Bill By Majority |
| | The French Senate approved by a large majority a bill banning hijab and other religious insignia in state schools on Wednesday, March3. | | | French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told senators before the vote that the law did not aim to discriminate against religions but to “send a powerful and quick signal”. | | | French President Jacques Chirac has 15 days to sign into law the bill - adopted by the lower house last month by overwhelming majority, according to the BBC. |
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http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=20040304082316875
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| | Diario.com.mx - French Senate Vote Assures Ban on Scarves |
| | French leaders hope the law will quell debate over head scarves that has divided France since 1989, when two young girls were expelled from their school in Creil, outside Paris, for wearing the head coverings. | | | PARIS- With an overwhelming vote, France´s Senate has assured that a law banning Islamic head scarves from public schools will be on the books for the new school year in September despite protests at home and abroad. | | | However, massive approval hours later by the Senate, which voted 276-20 in favor of the legislation, provides the legitimacy President Jacques Chirac sought. |
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http://www.buzztracker.org/2004/03/07/cache/98564.html
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| | A History of the French Senate: The Third Republic 1870–1940 |
| | This two-part study uncovers the French Senate and examines its evolution from keystone of the compromise that created the Republic in 1875 to its consecration as the chambre de la décentralisation in 2003. | | | Volume One examines the place of the Senate in the Third Republic, from its uncertain beginnings to its presence at the forefront of political life in the 1930s, a prominence that would cost the Senate dear after the Liberation. | | | We are ushered into the world of local notables, wielding influence as a result of family connection, property or liberal profession, who acted as a counterbalance to the mass politics of the Republic, as exemplified by the socialist and communist parties. |
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http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=6274&pc=9
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| | Sénat - International |
| | The Senate is more and more frequently sought to grant its cooperation to the Parliaments of the new democracies or the countries engaged in the process of democratization. | | | This activity is marked by a lot of audiences held at the Palace of the Small Luxembourg, foreign trips in answer to governmental or parliamentary invitations and also the reception of parliamentary delegations in the Senate. | | | Secondly, in the context of a parliamentary diplomacy in expansion, the Senate has a role to play in order to contribute to the development of the influence of our country in foreign countries. |
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http://www.senat.fr/international/english
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| | Catholic World News : French Senate passes tough ban on religious garb in schools |
| | The Senate voted 276-20 to approve the measure that had been adopted by the National Assembly, which had similarly approved it 494-36 on February 10. | | | French Senate passes tough ban on religious garb in schools | | | Paris, Mar. 03, 2004 (CWNews.com) - A law banning overt displays of religious garb in French public schools was approved overwhelmingly on Wednesday by the Senate, despite protests by thousands who called the measure religious discrimination. |
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http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=28046
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| | Asbarez Online - MARCH 24, 1999 |
| | As a Senator, in 1990, you rejected the politically-motivated denials of the Turkish government and voted for the Armenian Genocide resolution. | | | Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.), led efforts to maintain Section 907, arguing that foreign aid should be given to those countries who reflect the values and principles of the United States. | | | He told the Senate's foreign affairs committee that he also personally feared "any adoption of the draft law would serve chiefly those (in Turkey) who are tempted by authoritarian nationalism and the repudiation of progress and open-mindedness." |
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http://www.asbarez.com/aol/1999/990324.htm
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| | Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - French Polynesia backs French senate reforms |
| | Under the reform proposal, the number of seats in the French senate will be increased from 321 to 345. | | | The proposed reform also limits a senator's term to six years, instead of the current nine years, and lowers the eligibility age from 35 to 30 years. | | | Like French Polynesia, the proposed reform law also calls for a second French senate seat for New Caledonia. |
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http://www.goasiapacific.com/news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_875589.htm
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| | France Recognises Armenian Genocide |
| | The vote, expected to lead to diplomatic complications with the Turkish government, was adopted by a vote of 164-40 in the French upper house. | | | The bill had been adopted by the Senate last November. | | | The vote in the lower house of the parliament came despite vigorous warnings from Ankara, which has said the assembly would be committing a crime against history if it approved the bill. |
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http://free.hostdepartment.com/h/humanrightsturkey/FraArm.htm
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| | French Senate Approves Ban on Religious Attire (washingtonpost.com) |
| | The Senate vote, 276 to 20, was as lopsided as the vote last month in the lower chamber of Parliament, with all the main political factions lining up behind the new restrictions. | | | Raffarin insisted that the law was needed to defend French institutions against encroaching extremism. | | | French Senate Approves Ban on Religious Attire (washingtonpost.com) |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A28555-2004Mar3¬Found=true
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| | French Pacific territories to get two extra seats in French Senate |
| | French government minister for Overseas, Brigitte Girardin, is to visit New Caledonia and French Polynesia next month, says New Caledonia's President Pierre Frogier. | | | It is expected to become effective at the next Senate elections in 2007. | | | New Caledonia and French Polynesia will get one more seat each in the French Senate, as part of reforms currently undertaken by France's Upper House, French Polynesia's President Gaston Flosse said on Wednesday. |
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http://www.hellopacific.com/news/general/news/2003/05/22/a.html
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| | Islam Online- News Section |
| | Boumediene has also been playing a leading role in defending the rights of the Arab and Muslim communities in France as she strongly opposed the enactment of a law banning hijab and religious symbols in state schools. | | | Contrary to her fellow MP, Khiari, Boumediene has run several times for French elections as well as joining many committees established for combating Islamophobia in France and defending the rights of immigrants in the country. | | | PARIS, September 29 (IslamOnline.net) – Two French Muslim women of Arab descent have won two seats in the Senate in the first time ever. |
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http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-09/29/article01.shtml
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| | The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - World |
| | France adopted a draft law that bans “ostentatious” religious insignia in state schools after the Senate approved the measure. | | | Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told the senators before the vote that the law did not aim to discriminate against religions but to “send a powerful and quick signal”. | | | He surprised most political analysts by besting several better-known Democratic rivals, won the primary in his native South Carolina and racked up strong second-place finishes in contests in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Georgia. |
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http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040305/world.htm
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| | Catholic World News : French Senate Votes To Ban All Types Of Cloning |
| | PARIS, Feb 6, 03 (LSN.ca/CWNews.com) - The French Senate has passed a ban on all cloning, including so-called "therapeutic cloning," and has declared reproductive cloning a crime "against the human species." The bill will not become law until June, after going before the Assembly and then back to the Senate. | | | French Senate Votes To Ban All Types Of Cloning | | | Cloning would violate our uniqueness and our human evolution and its perpetrators will be punished under French law," said Sen. Nicolas About, president of the Social Affairs Commission and the bill's sponsor. |
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http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=19875
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| | Euro-MP criticises French Senate vote on articles of faith (Liz Lynne MEP) |
| | West Midlands Euro-MP Liz Lynne has criticised the French Senate for approving a bill banning the wearing of articles of faith in state schools and regulating their wearing in the workplace. | | | Liz Lynne MEP and the Muslim community will be holding a rally on Saturday in Birmingham to demonstrate against the proposed law. | | | "At the rally on Saturday I will be asking the people of the West Midlands to put pressure on the French Government over the next few days and urge President Chirac not to sign this bill in to law." |
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| | BreakingNews.ie: French Senate endorses head scarves ban |
| | A law banning Islamic head scarves from France’s public schools was definitively adopted tonight with the Senate voting 276-20 in favour. | | | Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, in a surprise visit to the Senate today, said that France must begin explaining the law to others. | | | It was Chirac who said a law was needed to protect the French principle of secularism. |
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http://www.breakingnews.ie/2004/03/03/story136820.html
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| | Domain Name / Nom de domaine !: French Senate to discuss a statute concerning domain names |
| | Several French Senators wrote a statute proposal to protect the local bodies names. | | | French Senate to discuss a statute concerning domain names | | | This text has been discussed and modified by a Senate Committee (see the 50 pages report), and should be discussed in chamber on June 22. |
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http://domaine.blogspot.com/2004/06/french-senate-to-discuss-statute_17.html
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| | French Senate Adopts Law Banning Islamic Head Scarves in Schools |
| | French Senate Adopts Law Banning Islamic Head Scarves in Schools | | | France's Senate Wednesday adopted controversial legislation banning Islamic head scarves, large Christian crosses, Jewish skullcaps and other so-called ostentatious religious symbols in public schools. | | | The evening vote, with 276 senators in favor of a religious symbols ban in French public schools, compared to only 20 against, indicates the overwhelming support this legislation has received among parties across the French political spectrum. |
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http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=52685052-4B25-45B6-86D9D905A42353D9
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| | Delegation of French Senate to arrive in Russia - Pravda.Ru |
| | On Wednesday, a delegation of the Senate of France is arriving in Moscow at the invitation of the leadership of the Federation Council. | | | On Wednesday, the members of the delegation of the French Senate are expected to meet Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov. | | | Delegation of French Senate to arrive in Russia |
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http://english.pravda.ru/diplomatic/2002/09/25/37179.html
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| | NewsFromRussia.Com French senate pushed through three-month extension |
| | Defending the measure before the upper house senate, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said that, although calm was returning after almost three weeks of night-time rioting, "nothing has yet been won for good" More details... | | | Defending the measure before the upper house senate, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said that, although calm was returning after almost three weeks of night-time rioting, "nothing has yet been won for good". | | | Senators voted by 202 votes to 125 in favour of the proposal, with left-wing parties opposing it. |
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http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/11/17/67878.html
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| | Latest news - French Prime minister - French Government Portal |
| | The draft law on patient rights and end-of-life care, already approved by the French National Assembly on 30 November 2004, was put to the vote in the senate during an overnight session on 12-13 April 2005. | | | End-of-life issues: draft law approved by the French senate | | | Latest news - French Prime minister - French Government Portal |
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| | Asbarez Online - MARCH 2, 2000 |
| | He stated that the French Senate and government gave in to pressures from Turkey, which threatened to renege on almost $6 billion of business with France. | | | Several French newspapers which covered the Senate's rejection have reported that Turkish pressures did, indeed, play a role in the ultimate decision. | | | "This rejection was as much a disrespect as it left an impression that the French Senate conceded to Turkish pressures and threats," Bret said in his announcement, which was published in the Paris-based Haratch newspaper. |
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| | French Senate Passes Tough Ban on Cloning -- 01/31/2003 |
| | Professor Claude Huriet, an honorary senator and a professor at the Nancy Medical Faculty, agreed that therapeutic cloning could be dangerous. | | | French Senate Passes Tough Ban on Cloning -- 01/31/2003 | | | It is not expected to become law until the end of June. |
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| | StarJet in the french Senate |
| | At the moment, the Senate's IT department goes from one major project to the next. | | | For instance, the Senate's Social Security application migrated to a new system in 2000. | | | But there is more
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| | EUROPA - IDABC - French Senate Committee calls for e-government minis |
| | Its interim report, presented on 20 July 2004, proposes to raise the profile of e-government in the country by granting the rank of Minister to the government member in charge of State Reform and e-government. | | | > eGovernment Observatory > eGovernment News > French Senate Committee calls for e-government minister | | | EUROPA - IDABC - French Senate Committee calls for e-government minis |
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http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/3207/194
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| | ICL - France Index |
| | There are numerous amendments to the text of the Constitution that have not yet been included into the ICL edition: firstly, the amendments of 1993 and those adopted by the Congress, i.e., the National Assembly and the Senate in joint Session, in Versailles on 26 July 1995. | | | The latter amendments renew Articles 11 (Referendum) and 28 (Sessions). | | | 14 July 1995: Worldwide protest arises on French National holiday against President Jacques Chirac's decision to recommence nuclear bomb tests on pacific Mururoa islands which are part of French-Polynesia. |
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| | CNN - French virtual senate to decide Internet law - January 13, 1999 |
| | Participants in the ISOC event will be able to vote on the final draft of the law during the mock parliament session taking place at the Senate. | | | CNN - French virtual senate to decide Internet law - January 13, 1999 | | | The French Senate, which is working alongside ISOC to put on the event, will then pass a mock law, based on user input. |
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http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9901/13/francenet.idg
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| | French Colonies - Saint-Pierre and Miquelon |
| | While a guillotine and an executioner are sent from France, a convict sentenced to death on the isolated island of Saint-Pierre strives to better himself in the eyes of the police chief's beautiful wife. | | | The territory has compulsory primary education, provided mainly by Roman Catholic schools, and a small secondary and vocational educational system. | | | The islands send a deputy and a senator to the French Parliament. |
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| | Man strips in French Senate protesting EU Constitution - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM |
| | Man strips in French Senate protesting EU Constitution | | | Man strips in French Senate protesting EU Constitution - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM | | | The man's protest, shown live on parliamentary television, provoked scattered laughs in the Senate chamber, where senators were holding a regular question session with government officials. |
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http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20050512T170000-0500_80334_OBS_MAN_STRIPS_IN_FRENCH_SENATE_PROTESTING_EU_CONSTITUTION.asp
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| | Adventist news |
| | The French Senate voted May 3 in favor of a controversial law aimed at regulating religious minorities. | | | The so-called "anti-sect law" has attracted criticism from human rights organizations, religious groups, and more than 50 members of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. |
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| | Turks.US Daily News - Gul receives chairman of French senate delegation |
| | Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul received on Monday the French delegation headed by Hubert Haenel. | | | ANKARA (AA) - Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul received on Monday the French delegation headed by Hubert Haenel. | | | Gul receives chairman of French senate delegation |
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| | Criminal Justice Resources for France |
| | For Information on International Criminal Justice and Criminal Justice in selected countries go to my Comparative Criminal Justice Resources Page. | | | Crime, Murder and the Law in Picardy, Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries | | | Office of the French President: The Elysée Palace |
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| | JURIST - Paper Chase: French Senate approves new anti-terror law |
| | The French lower house, the National Assembly, approved a version of the law [JURIST report] in late November; both houses will have to pass the bill again before it can become law. | | | JURIST - Paper Chase: French Senate approves new anti-terror law | | | Critics of the bill argue that it is too heavy-handed and effectively puts terrorists, delinquents and immigrants in the same basket while, in the words of a former socialist culture minister, "sowing the seeds of xenophobia and racism." AFP has more. |
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http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/12/french-senate-approves-new-anti-terror.php
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| | - French Senate gives digital economy bill second reading - Internet Business News |
| | By the time the Senate broke for lunch, voting on the 98 amendments still in play had not yet started. | | | The French Senate began its second reading of a piece of legislation entitled a Bill to Promote Confidence in the Digital Economy on Thursday morning. | | | French Senate gives digital economy bill second reading |
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| | The Seattle Times: Nation & World: French Senate OKs ban on head scarves |
| | The 276-20 Senate vote was as lopsided as the vote last month in the lower chamber of Parliament, with all main political factions lining up behind the new restrictions. | | | PARIS &; After two days of debate, the French Senate gave its overwhelming approval last night to a law banning Muslim head scarves and other supposed religious symbols from the nation's classrooms, sending the bill to President Jacques Chirac for his signature. | | | The Seattle Times: Nation & World: French Senate OKs ban on head scarves |
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| | Paris travel guide |
| | It became a museum in 1793 (during the french revolution, after the death of Louis 16). | | | Assemblee Nationale (French Parliament) : in the Palais Bourbon, built for the Duchess of Bourbon, the daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan. | | | It's a huge concentration of private residences, mansions and "hotels particuliers" (private hotels) that have kept their pre-Revolution architecture. |
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