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8 August 2017

Op-ed: Should France provide official constitutional role for 'first lady'?

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1 August 2017

French Constitutional Council sees CETA as compliant with Constitution

French President, Emmanuel Macron (Photo credit: EPA/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/Flickr)

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4 July 2017

French President informs about plans for constitutional changes

French Constitutional Court (Photo credit:Thomas Samson, AFP)

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23 March 2017

French ConCourt launches investigation into CETA's constitutionality

French Prime Minister and presidential candidate Manuel Valls (photo credit: AP Photo/ Christophe En)

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16 December 2016

France's Valls plans to amend constitution to abolish bypassing of parliament in law making

Nicolas Sarkozy, former head of the Les Republicains political party and former French president, attends the party's weekend summer university youth meeting in Le Touquet, France August 27, 2016 (Photo credit: Reuters/Pascal Rossignol)

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30 August 2016

France's Sarkozy would change constitution to ban burkinis if re-elected

President Francois Hollande (photo credit: European Press Photo Agency)

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31 March 2016

France's Hollande drops plan to change constitution enshrining state of emergency and stripping citizenship

French Senate (photo credit: The Council of Canadians)

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21 March 2016

French Senate effectively kills controversial nationality law

Anti-riot police stand guard on the place de la Concorde, on February 3, 2016 in Paris (photo credit: ADP)

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9 February 2016

French lower house votes to enshrine state of emergency in constitution

President of France: Francois Hollande

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5 February 2016

French lawmakers to debate contested post-attacks constitution changes

Demonstrators protest against the state of emergency in Rennes on January 23, 2016 (photo credit: Jean-François Monier - AFP)

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27 January 2016

President Hollande announces Bill to prolong the state of emergency in France

French President Francois Hollande (C) is under fire for seeking changes to the constitution that could strip dual-nationals of their French passport (photo credit: AFP)

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31 December 2015

Hollande under fire over call to strip citizenship from terror convicts

Hollande announced the modification of the constitution in an address to parliament (photo credit: French Presidency)

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23 December 2015

France to table bill on state of emergency clause in constitution following terror attacks

Government sources said the legal framework to extend special powers beyond the current three-month limit on a state of emergency will be put to ministers on December 23 Several parcel bomb alerts occured and for security reasons the city center has been closed to road traffic during the whole period of Strasbourg's Christmas market, following the November 13 Paris terror attacks. (photo credit: AFP)

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3 December 2015

France plans to change constitution to extend state of emergency: govt sources

French president Francois Hollande speaks in Paris, following a series of coordinated attacks in and around Paris late on 13 November 2015 (photo credit: Independent)

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30 November 2015

French government seeks to write state of emergency into constitution