"On New Caledonia, the State Signs a Cheque for Reconstruction and Obtains in Exchange a Lasting Stowage to France"

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The ex-guard of the Seals welcomes the agreement signed in Bougival on 12 July, which provides for the establishment of a state within the French Republic. He sees it as an institutional innovation which proves that the law can be flexible, malleable, strategic.

Le Monde

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TRIBUNE. The Bougival agreement, signed on 12 July, gives pride of place to the Loyalist theses and takes up in its main lines the modification of the electoral corps that had triggered the clashes of 2024, according to Honorary Magistrate Christian Belhôte, in a rostrum in the "World".

La Croix

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Manuel Valls, minister in charge of overseas affairs, acknowledges that after the historic signing of a draft agreement on New Caledonia on Saturday, 12 July, the local population will have to be convinced, which will be consulted by referendum in February 2026. This does not seem to be gained in advance in view of the reactions in the archipelago.

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Paris, 15 Jul 2025 (AFP) – "No doubt the most difficult remains to be done" after the agreement on New Caledonia concluded on Saturday between independents and non-independenceists, insisted on Tuesday the Minister of Overseas Affairs Manuel Valls, recalling that the political leaders of Caledonia now had to explain and defend it on the spot. "We made an agreement, the most [...]

franceinfo.fr

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After ten days of discussions, the independence and loyalist forces of New Caledonia signed an agreement providing for a future "State of New Caledonia".

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Sign of the complexity and sensitivity of the subject, it took ten days of negotiations and a final white night, for...