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...important to show that the Republic ... will not let itself be eaten away from within." JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN, French Prime Minister, defending France's decision to ban head scarves and other Islamic garb in public schools...
...France won't happen without positive discrimination and the legal evil of quotas. I'm all for a secularity law, but that's just the top branch of a huge and troubled tree." There are signs that France is beginning to strike at the roots. Two weeks ago the Raffarin government established a new administration for renovating decrepit housing projects, a measure long sought by Junior Minister for Urban Affairs Jean-Louis Borloo. The National Agency for Urban Renovation intends to refurbish or build new housing for nearly 6 million banlieue residents by the end of 2008. Some...
...certain) passage by March 3. When the law to forbid Muslim head scarves, Jewish yarmulkes, "excessively oversized" Christian crucifixes and perhaps Sikh turbans was initially approved this month, Education Minister Luc Ferry promised it would stop "classrooms from being divided up into militant religious communities." Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin...
...evidence that that's happening." But French voters aren't letting their guards down just yet. Political reaction to the Juppé verdict ranged from attacks on Chirac and surprising sympathy from some opposition Socialists to assaults on the court's legitimacy from the right. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin reacted with "surprise" to a verdict he qualified as "provisional" - even before Juppé decided to appeal. ump Minister Delegate for Schools Xavier Darcos condemned the ruling as "a political death sentence"; Eric Raoult, vice president of the ump parliamentary group, called it "disproportionate, hypocritical and cynical." Then things...
...plane crash early Saturday that killed all 148 passengers and crew, blaming a technical fault. The Boeing 737 belonging to Egyptian charter company Flash Airlines was carrying mostly French tourists returning to Paris . It plunged into the Red Sea shortly after takeoff. French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said France would do everything it could to help Egypt find out what caused the fault. A report Sunday said Flash Airlines was banned from flying to Switzerland after safety shortcomings were detected during a routine check at Zurich airport in October 2002. Impasse AFGHANISTAN U.S. and U.N. officials sought...