The newly elected European Parliament President José María Gil-Robles

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Series Details 27/02/97, Volume 3, Number 08
Publication Date 27/02/1997
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Date: 27/02/1997

was involved in a full-scale diplomatic row with the French government during an official visit to Paris this week. French President Jacques Chirac condemned as “unacceptable interference” the Parliament's criticism last week of draft French legislation clamping down on illegal immigration. Gil-Robles also crossed swords with French Foreign Minister Hervé de Charette after the latter dismissed the institution as “not yet a parliament worthy of the name”.

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