In 1950, the French Assembly ratified the agreement under which Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos became independent states within the French union.
But given the backlash that closures cause there, their first factory-sharing may come elsewhere: just before the Paris show a French union official let slip that the two firms were looking at building cars together in Brazil.
The attacker was wearing a robe and appeared to be North African, said Laurent Lefebvre, a spokesman for Syndicat Alliance Police Nationale, a French police union.
Another reason why French companies in aggregate have not done so well in China, says Wang Jiann-Yuh, director-general of the France-China Committee, part of MEDEF, the French employer's union, is that French businesspeople can be impatient, sometimes arrogant, and overly focused on short-term results.
Reporting the threat, the French magistrates' union appealed for calm.
Serge Eyrolles, head of the French publisher's union Syndicat National de l'Edition, said he was "completely satisfied with the verdict".
Still, officials from the prison guards' union pressed French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira to make prisons safer, including more thorough searches of those who enter, BFMTV reported.
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RPR, which has discussed the idea of a common conservative candidate with the Liberal Democrats and the Union for French Democracy, will promote a second Tiberi term.
According to The National Union of French Apiculture, or Unaf, the increase in honey imports has encouraged an illegal multi-million euro market of honey coming mainly from China, which, at 350, 000 tons per year, has become the largest honey producer in the world.
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French troops heading a European Union peacekeeping mission were poised to bolster the president if required.
But Trevor French from the Fire Brigades Union said it was "unacceptable" to ruin firefighters' family lives.
Only 8% of French workers belong to a union, compared with 19% in Germany and 12% in America.
At the French mission to the European Union in Brussels, one in three senior diplomats commutes home most weekends.
The French president wants a banking union with a joint guarantee of deposits and a joint fund to pay down debt.
Frigide, just like a majority of the French, supported the civil union enacted in 1999, the so-called Pacs, designed mainly for same sex couples.
It would also have marked the final consummation of a union of the French, German and British defence industries that was originally mooted way back in the 1990s.
Western diplomats say they were confused by China's initial attempt to have Mr. Devillers extradited from Cambodia as it was certain to have met fierce resistance from the French government and the European Union.
For this reason, at the initiative of the French Presidency of the European Union, there will be developed "a tool in the service of students, for them to be informed about education opportunities available in Europe and to choose a European course based on their own career plans".
Under European-Union rules, the French can offer subsidies worth up to a third of that to secure the deal.
European Union ministers, especially French and German finance ministers, are trying to restrict the powers available to the UK's new Financial Policy Committee, which has its first meeting today.
The newly appointed head of the planned European Union military training mission, French Gen.
Mr Schroeder aims to enlist the backing of the European Union for the German and French challenge to US leadership.
Earlier on Saturday, Mr Sarkozy held talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who will be a key player in the French leader's plan for a union of Mediterranean states.
Police union leader Christophe Crepin told French TV news channel i-tele Saturday that Abdelkader Merah and his girlfriend were moved early Saturday from Toulouse to the headquarters of the DCRI, the French counter intelligence agency, in Levallois-Perret, near Paris.
The French and Dutch were authorised by the European Union to vaccinate some of their poultry.
"It's in the hands of the FFR (French Rugby Federation) and the Welsh Rugby Union, " Thomas said.
According to our correspondent, critics are dismissing the new union as lacking substance, but French officials say it comes at a significant moment.
In 1830, a revolt broke out in the French-speaking provinces of the Netherlands, against union into Belgium.
There is also stiff competition for positions in the European Union bureaucracy, whose culture is heavily French.
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