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Hello everyone, The APROFED association is getting back to you this weekend to send you an article from Actu.nc dated October 23 of this year entitled  “Federalisms and New Caledonia”  which you can find at the following link:  “Federalisms and New Caledonia” | Actu NC While the association welcomes this initiative, it regrets that the federal solution  to the current problem of New Caled...

Hello everyone, The APROFED association is coming back to you to share with you the  conference currently being broadcast on the Caledonia channel, by Carine David, university professor of law, entitled:  Making a country, legal creativity in the service of a common destiny , held at the Tjibaou Cultural Center in March 2024. One of the parts of this conference is to:  revisit the relatio...

Hello everyone, The APROFED association is getting back to you this week with an  article by Michel Herland, former vice-rector in New Caledonia  in the early 2000s and director since 2018 of the French-speaking journal ( MondeSFrancophones.com ), entitled:  Europe, New Caledonia, federations in the making. In this article, he considers that  France is the laughing stock of informed obser...

Hello everyone, The APROFED association is coming back to you this week to share with you a  political editorial broadcast on Europe1 in May 2024 entitled:  Emmanuel Macron or Shameful Federalism. This editorial follows an interview given by the President of the Republic to the British weekly The Economist on Emmanuel Macron's vision of Europe. According to the editorialist, we learn t...

Hello everyone, The APROFED association is getting back to you this weekend to forward an article from the newspaper "Le Monde" entitled: FRANCE OFFERS ITS OVERSEAS TERRITORIES A LIGHT FEDERALISM. Find the article at the following link:  FRANCE OFFERS ITS OVERSEAS TERRITORIES A LIGHT FEDERALISM (lemonde.fr) We wish you a good read and remind you that federalism is the only solution to ...

Hello everyone, A remnant of the French empire and the time of colonization,  New Caledonia was thus included almost 80 years ago, in 1946, on the list of non-self-governing territories established by the UN  aimed at potentially gaining independence (see  New Caledonia | The United Nations and decolonization ). Removed from this same list the following year in 1947 at the request of France ...

Hello everyone, Faced with the failure of representative democracy to find a solution to the insurrectional crisis that New Caledonia has been experiencing for four months now through a political agreement, what options remain to date to avoid an escalation like in 1988? Before listing the various options available, the association recalls that the draft Constitution of the State of Kanak...

Hello everyone, In addition to solution no. 2 proposed by the association, which aims to promote federalism at the level of the Pacific States with a view to establishing a “United States of Oceania” (see  without France – APROFED  ), a large number of States today across the world are considering adopting this new mode of governance, abandoning the Jacobin, unitary, French-style state which...

Hello everyone, We are coming back to you following the request of some of our readers to know  how an associated State differs from a federated State? As former Minister of Justice JJ Urvoas points out in the notes of the Club of Jurists,  the associated State and the federated State are concepts that are quite close  to each other.  The major difference is that the associated State is s...

Hello everyone, The APROFED association is back with you again this week on the theme of the unitary and indivisible framework of the State developed last week. To this end, you will find attached a  new document produced this time by Elina Lemaire , also a professor of public law, within the framework of the Francophone Digital Legal University (UNJF)  presenting the two political forms ...