Guy Teissier Wants Waving Foreign Flags in France to Become Illegal - French Government to Vote

In what is a surprising move to many, a new amendment to legislation has been proposed by French member of parliament, Guy Teissier. He is proposing to ""regulate the use of foreign flags in French public spaces by demanding prior permission".


Teissier has said, "A certain number of people, be they French, foreigners or not, during a diverse range of occasions – national holidays, protests – or in their daily lives, wave the flags of their country of origin."


The waving of foreign flags in France has become relatively commonplace, flags such as the Algerian Flag and Moroccan Flag in particular can be seen on a regular basis.

If the new amendment is passed the waving of a foreign flag without prior permission could be punishable with a fine of anything up to €1,500.

French Flag Support Confirmed for America's Cup Race 2013

French Sports Minister Chantal Jouanno has confirmed the French Government's support for the three declared French Teams, which are vying to perform in the America's Cup Yachting race in San Francisco, 2013.

The Government are allowing the official use of the French Flag but have emphasised this is subject to the three teams being able to raise the necessary finances. Entering the race is not cheap and is estimated at a minimum of $50Million.

On 1st April, the organisers of the America's Cup confirmed that 15 teams had declared an interest in competing in the race.

The qualification event lasts from July 13 to September 1, 2013. The winner goes on to compete against the American Yacht in an event from September 7th to 22nd.

Challengers are now required to pay a $200,000 bond by the end of April, to retain their involvement in the race.

French Flag OK'd by French Government for America's Cup

French Flag flying high throughout Libya

According to reports coming out of Libya the French Flag is flying high throughout the country. The French government are very popular in Libya at the moment, the French flag is being waved throughout the country, especially in ant-government stronghold Benghazi.



Many traders have been doing a brisk trade in both French Flags and the former Republic of Libya flag (replaced by Gaddafi with the all-green flag).



French President Nicolas Sarkozy's name is constantrly chanted by anti-Gaddafi forces, who appreciate his very strong stance against Gaddafi's recent alleged atrocities in Libya. The Libyan public are also appreciative of other governments abroad such as the UK and US governments, but nowhere seems to be as popular right now as France.

New Caledonia Flag Protest Marches Banned

The tiny oceanic territory of New Caledonia may be small in population (just 245,000) - but is causing a stir politically.

Recent months have seen much tension over the issue of the national flag. New Caledonia is a French Overseas Territory and the French High Commission have banned protest marches for tomorrow (2nd April 2011). The Commission have also banned meetings of more than 10 people, which are organised to discuss the flag issue.

The issue of the national flag has caused the collapse of three governments in the past two months. A group which has been advocating the abolition of the current flag, has planned tomorrows marches many weeks ago. The labour party in New Caledonia were planning a rival pro-flag march. Rival party the Caledonia Together Party are pro-abolition and were to be involved in the anti-flag marches.

Attempts to form a new government are now entering a third month. It seems amazing to think that the national flag is a root cause of these tensions.

The New Caledonia Flag, the cause of much controversy.

France vs Croatia Football Friendly - 29th March at Wembley, England - Wave Your Flag

France play Croatia today (29th March) in a Friendly match at Wembley Stadium at the Stade de France, Paris, France. There will be a lot of national patriotism on display .

Here are the France vs Croatia line-ups:
France: Lloris, Clichy, Mexes, Rami, Reveillere, Malouda, Diarra, Nasri, Matuidi, Menez, Benzema Subs: Carrasso, Mandanda, Sakho, Koscielny, Evra, Gourcuff, Sagna, Diaby, M'Vila, Gameiro, Hoarau, Remy and Ribery.
Croatia: Runje, Pranjic, Loren, Corluka, Srna, Kranjcar, Modric, Vukojevic, Dujmovic, Perisic, Petric. Subs: Kalinic, Pletikosa, Simunic, Eduardo, Mandzukic, Bilic, Jelavic, Lakic, Illicevic, Rakitic, Badelj, Strinic, Vrsaljko, Schildenfeld, Pamic, Vida and Subasic.


Wave your flags with pride:
France - http://www.flagsinformation.com/french-country-flag.html
Croatia - http://www.flagsinformation.com/croatian-country-flag.html

Here are the flags of the two respective teams:

French Flag


Croatian Flag

French Flag held aloft in Benghazi Libya

In this image, the French Flag is held aloft by a young boy in Benghazi, Libya.


France has had a long-standing history with Libya, although colonially Libya had previously been part of the Italian empire in Africa.

Flags Information - Flag of Mayotte Page

The Mayotte page of the Flagsinformation.com Flags of the World website can be found at:
http://www.flagsinformation.com/mayotte-country-flag.html

The French territory of Mayotte, simply uses the flag of France.

Description: The Mayotte flag simply uses the French tricolor flag, which consists of three vertical blue stripes. From left to right these are blue, white and red.


There are two images available:

The smaller 100 X 67 pixels:


and the larger 800 X 533 pixels:


To find out further information about the Mayotte territory visit http://www.flagsinformation.com/mayotte-country-flag.html
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