Russia Today
| Apr 23, 2013
Paris protesters clashed with riot police after the French parliament passed a historic, controversial law allowing same-sex couples to marry and to adopt children. Applause erupted in the National Assembly when the bill passed 331 to 225, but pro...
Euronews
| Nov 7, 2012
France has approved a draft bill to allow same-sex marriages. The proposal would give gay couples the right to adopt children but not access to assisted procreation methods. The draft was a compromise, leaving out the complex issue of assisted p...
Euronews
| Dec 22, 2011
Despite protests from France's Turkish community, the lower house of parliament in Paris has backed a bill making the denial of genocide a crime. For France, this covers the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915. But that puts it ...
Euronews
| Dec 7, 2011
Sex workers in Paris have held protests after the French parliament said it would consider criminalizing paying for sex in a bid to abolish prostitution. Around 200,000 people are thought to be working in the country as prostitutes and trade uni...
— last Saturday at 11:15 pm
...who steered the legislation through parliament, has said the first gay marriages could be celebrated as early as June. Marriages in France must ...
— Oct 18, 2012 at 03:26 pm
...in Toulouse by a French Islamist who claimed to have been trained by al-Qaeda. The surveillance of radicals has been stepped up. Mr Valls is put...
— Dec 29, 2012 at 12:28 pm
...promise of the election campaign that saw Hollande defeat right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy in May. It was not immediately clear if the government wo...
— about 16 hours ago
...said Ms. Schaake, who advocates a far-reaching deal between Europe and the United States. The resolution comes as European filmmakers and govern...
The French Parliament is the bicameral legislature of the French Republic, consisting of the Senate and the National Assembly. Each assembly conducts legislative sessions at a separate location in Paris: the Palais du Luxembourg for the Senate and the Palais Bourbon for the National Assembly.
Each house has its own regulations and rules of procedure. However, they may occasionally meet as a single house, the French Congress, convened at the Château de Versailles, to revise and amend the Constitution of France.
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