French Community

The Communauté française ( French Community German, officially la Communauté ) was a French by the Constitution of the Fifth Republic created October 4th 1958 States and international community of the former French Union. After a few years it had become politically insignificant, but was formally dissolved until 4 August 1995.

History

On 4 October 1958, the Community of the French Republic was established with overseas territories and the original 12 Member States. Of the original constituent republics of the Union française Guinea had voted against a recording.

The Community should include " a hundred million Frenchmen " and evolved since its founding in 1958 by a relatively close-knit community with clearly defined organs into a loose federation. Recognized was merely the President of the French Republic as the head of the community. The Executive Council (ie the government ) was soon replaced by a regularly scheduled meeting of Heads of State and Government. The Senate, which was an advisory body, in essence, was dissolved in March 1961. The Arbitration Court ruled in July 1961 its activities. The name " la Communauté " will be officially hardly ever used, since June 1961. In its place, the Afro - Malagasy Union was and is since 1970, the Francophone entered.

With the French Constitution Act of 4 August 1995, the community was finally repealed and the provisions deleted this from the French Constitution of 1958.

Former Member States

• France
• Senegal
• Central African Republic ( as a colony and region Ubangi -Shari to 1958 )
• (Middle ) Congo ( from 1960 also: Republic of Congo)
• Gabon
• Chad
• Madagascar
• Ivory Coast (until 1960 /61)
• Upper Volta (up to 1960/61, now Burkina Faso)
• Niger (until 1960 /61)
• Dahomey ( until 1960/61, now Benin )
• Mauritania (until 1960 /61)
• Mali ( until 1960, when the colony and territory until 1960, French Sudan )

Cameroon and Togo were associated countries.

French - African Community

In 1960, African Dahomey, Niger, Upper Volta, Ivory Coast, Mali and Mauritania opted for full independence - that is, the whole of the former French West Africa except Senegal. In the Communauté Franco - African- Malgache ( CFAM, French - African - Malagasy Union) initially remained the republics of French Equatorial Africa - Gabon, Congo ( Brazzaville), Chad and the Central African Republic - as well as the Malagasy Republic, Senegal and the French Overseas Territories.

Competence of the Community

Competence of the Community to the French Constitution of 1958 was one of the foreign policy, defense, the monetary system, the common economic and financial policy, and the war-important raw materials and partly also the accountability of the judiciary, of higher education as well as the general organization of the common external transport and telecommunications. In the community there was only one nationality.

The Community Executive Council consisting of the President of France, the French Prime Minister, the Government of the Member States and the French ministers, which was under the management of the common affairs until 1960.

The Community Senate consisted of 300 delegates of the French National Assembly, the French Senate and the Parliamentary Assemblies of the Member States of the Community to March 1961.

• Political History (France)
• French History ( 20th century)
• French colonial history
• Founded in 1958
• Dissolved in 1995