The BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris says that an investigation within the bureaucratic French legal system could take months or even years.
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The physician helps the patient obtain tests, make appointments with specialists and in other ways negotiate an increasingly bureaucratic health-care system.
The immigration system is bureaucratic, arbitrary, and complicated, with rigid and overlapping quotas, national lotteries, and 25 different visa categories and subcategories.
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Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) told Today presenter Sarah Montague that she welcomed moves to make the system less bureaucratic.
GPs say the current system is very bureaucratic and that they spend too much time filling out forms so that they can be paid.
What no Italian government has succeeded in doing is tackling the endemic corruption, political interference, bureaucratic inefficiency and broken justice system that has deterred investment, stifled innovation and destroyed any hope the country might grow its way out of its debt burden.
Europe's system is more regulatory and bureaucratic and, unlike America's, never involves criminal sanctions.
This paralysis exists because it suits the trio of political, bureaucratic and union interests to keep the system the way it is.
Quite often, the barriers to clean energy are not financial, but rather the bureaucratic red tape put forward by a system that was designed for an outmoded energy paradigm.
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After extensive technical delays and bureaucratic bickering, Siemens recently installed a computerized system for the L train that allows the line to operate 33 trains per hour, up from 28.
Charter schools, part of the public school system but free from onerous union and bureaucratic rules, have proliferated.
"It will take a while for the system to become decentralized and not as bureaucratic, for old habits to break, " she said.
It is a green-shoot with as yet frail tendrils that can easily be uprooted before it has a chance to send its bureaucratic shoots and runners through the entire health care system and entangle itself permanently on the landscape.
But what tech czar Kendall sees is that cyber threats morph too fast for the deliberative procedures of the current military development system, and they hopscotch across geographical and bureaucratic boundaries in a way that no conventional law-enforcement agency could match.
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Bureaucratic systems and processes were put in place to make the system tick over like a boring clockwork machine.
Everyone knows that the traditional public school system can be a bit burgeoning, with lots of bureaucratic red tap and uniformity which can hinder creativity in teaching.
Local councils agree that the existing system for assessing would-be parents is slow and bureaucratic - but say it is vital that it remains as rigorous as possible - because the children involved are among the most vulnerable in society and a breakdown in an adoption could be catastrophic for them.
He also said the performance management system for the teaching profession was not intended to be a bureaucratic process.
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And she also warned that the system would affect a small number of students and be very bureaucratic and complex to administer.
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This system was pioneered by the defence ministry in the late 1980s but faces bureaucratic resistance.
It may push America into realising that the system has become an absurdity, the result of inertia, drift and bureaucratic empire-building rather than a cool assessment of the government's current needs.
Despite much sighing over national sovereignty, many Thais hope the IMF can cut through coalition and bureaucratic bickering and force the government to take the painful measures needed to shore up the financial system and get the economy back on a growth track.
One is you want the examiners and the system that they have of examining the patents now is perceived by almost everybody to be excessively bureaucratic.
But, until recently, there have been few incentives for generosity: The country's tax system doesn't favor charitable contributions, and efforts to donate are often met with Byzantine bureaucratic demands.
After extensive technical delays and bureaucratic bickering, Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ) recently installed a computerized system for the L train that allows the line to operate 33 trains per hour, up from 28.
The substantive, logical, and bureaucratic considerations all ignored one thing: the chance that the politics of the deal, inflamed by a polarized electoral system and media culture, could explode in controversy.
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