French laws enacted after World War II ban the compilation of information about religious affiliation without permission.
Drew Hutton from the Australian Greens party told a media confererence Sunday that it was important to realize that New Caledonia had no environmental protection laws of its own, nor was the environment there covered by French laws.
And the really silly thing is that if they try to change the French laws then in a couple of years time, once the appeals process is finished, the European Court will tell them that their changes are inconsistent with EU law.
There were a few demands for new legislation on press privacy after her death even though French privacy laws, the strictest in Europe, had failed to protect Diana.
She set about making her views known, telling reporters on her third day of work that French labor laws were ''too complicated, too heavy, to the point of constituting a brake on growth.
The Minister of Women's Rights, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, said that the ban was incompatible with modern French values and laws.
The island has two official languages, French and English, and many of the older laws are still written in French.
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Countries such as Haiti which, through colonialism, inherited laws from the French legal system are especially prone to red tape.
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Last November, the European Commission formally told the French government to bring its laws into line with the birds directive, or risk a hefty fine.
Jersey's parish laws will not be translated from French into English.
BBC: States of Jersey vote not to translate laws from French
The great French political economist Fredric Bastiat long ago observed that for laws to be effective, they must be credible.
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Several bankers report that they attract French and Dutch clients, who want to shelter under Belgium's favourable tax laws.
Didier Corlou, a French chef who has married into a Vietnamese family, explains how his in-laws eagerly contributed old recipes for his recent book on Hanoian cuisine.
Facing decline, France enacted silly laws to prop up the mother tongue, such as requiring the use of French in the public square, in advertising, etc.
In the face of its waning importance France enacted silly laws to shore up the mother tongue, such as requiring the use of French in the public square, in advertising, etc.
The French are famously indifferent to their politicians' private lives, which are protected by strong privacy laws: affairs are tolerated, if not de rigueur, for public figures.
By any standard, the record of the French intelligence services has been impressive to date, aided by some of Europe's toughest anti-terrorism laws.
Days earlier in Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, the French president and German chancellor, had all but given Britain an ultimatum: accept their plan to rewrite the laws of the EU, or prompt the 17 members of the euro zone to seek a separate deal and risk British isolation.
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