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France · National Assembly · 2 June 2026
Mr. Vincent Caure draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture, Agri-Food and Food Sovereignty to the system of access to the veterinary profession for graduates from outside the EU (United Kingdom). The “knowledge test” provided for by article R. 241-13 of the rural and maritime fishing code is similar, in its terms, to a selective competition (failure rate of 80%). It contravenes the spirit of the exercise professional based on competence. The MP notes technical anomalies. Obsolescence of the test: the MCQ with negative points penalizes reflective clinical practice in favor of memory cramming; lack of transparency: unlike the American NAVLE, no detailed program (syllabus) or corrected annal is provided, placing candidates in total legal insecurity; disproportion of the jury: the oral test, requiring the recitation of the code of ethics, disconnects the evaluation of the veterinarian's actual surgical or diagnostic abilities. He asks him if the Government intends to establish automatic equivalence for courses started before 2021, in order to protect acquired rights; decentralize the exam and transform it into a single certificate test, based on a public and accessible syllabus; review the format of tests to ensure that they assess clinical discernment rather than literal memorization of national law.
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France · National Assembly · 2 June 2026
Mr. Vincent Caure draws the attention of the Minister Delegate to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, responsible for Europe, to the technical obstacles to the free movement of pets induced by post-Brexit health requirements. While Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 governs the non-commercial movement of pets, the UK's withdrawal from the EU has mandated the replacement of the "European passport for pets” by an “EU Health Certificate” (Animal Health Certificate (AHC), which must be issued by an official veterinarian less than ten days before travel. This document, expensive and complex to obtain (around 200-300 pounds per journey), constitutes an unjustified price barrier for cross-border families. He asks him if the Government will open a technical negotiation with London to obtain mutual recognition of animal passports, modeled on the convention between the EU and Switzerland; standardize health requirements in order to exempt pets duly vaccinated against rabies and identified by electronic chip from the need for a health certificate renewed at each visit, in favor of annual validity; simplify the documentary framework to reduce administrative costs borne by French citizens residing in the United Kingdom.
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France · National Assembly · 26 May 2026
Mr. Vincent Caure questions the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities on the situation of veterinarians and physiotherapists qualified in the United Kingdom after Brexit even though they had started their studies before. Law No. 2026-373 of May 15, 2026 made it possible to open a path of recognition to doctors who obtained their diploma in the United Kingdom after its exit from the European Union. This advance constituted a response adapted to a real injustice, that of qualified health professionals, trained in a State which was then a member of the Union and who found themselves in a situation of administrative impasse simply because of Brexit. However, two categories of professionals find themselves in an identical situation without benefiting from an equivalent solution: physiotherapists and veterinarians. While rural areas face shortages of health professionals, particularly veterinarians, it would seem coherent to consider recognition similar to that granted to doctors. He asks her if she plans to extend the system of recognition of diplomas obtained in the United Kingdom before Brexit on the one hand to physiotherapists and on the other hand to veterinarians and, if so, according to what timetable.
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France · National Assembly · 28 April 2026
Mr. Vincent Caure draws the attention of the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities to the persistent difficulties encountered by French people established outside France when they seek to recover their registration number in the national directory of identification of natural persons (NIR), commonly called social security number, after a long period of expatriation. The right to protection Universal Sickness (PUMa), established by Law No. 2015-1702 of December 21, 2015 on the financing of social security for 2016, guarantees any person residing stably and regularly on French territory to cover their health costs, in application of Article L. 160-1 of the Social Security Code. In the event of returning from expatriation, form S1106 constitutes the normal route for reaffiliation with the primary health insurance fund (CPAM) of the place of residence, with, where applicable, a waiting period of three months for people without professional activity. However, many compatriots faced with returning to France after a long-term expatriation (ten, twenty, sometimes thirty years) encounter a prior difficulty: the impossibility of finding their social security number. No longer having in their possession or vital card, nor old pay slip, nor certificate of rights, they do not have any document allowing them to reconstruct their identifier. However, the NIR being unique and permanent, it exists in the national identity management system (SNGI) managed by the National Old Age Insurance Fund (CNAV). However, CPAMs are often unable to find it quickly, due to a lack of simplified query tools or procedures adapted to situations of prolonged expatriation. Some nationals are then directed towards first-time registration circuits, as if they had never been affiliated, which considerably lengthens the delays and sometimes generates the allocation of a provisional number, a source of later complications. Others, still residing abroad, seek to anticipate their return or to assert retirement rights for contribution periods in France, but find it physically impossible to contact an organization which conditions any procedure on the production of a NIR which they no longer possess. This situation is all the more detrimental as the NIR conditions all administrative procedures upon return: reaffiliation with health insurance, registration with France Travail, liquidation of retirement rights with the CNAV, affiliation with the family allowance fund, etc. The absence of a number simultaneously blocks all of these procedures and places those concerned in a vicious circle where each organization demands the production of a NIR that the other is supposed to provide. He asks what measures the Government plans to take to simplify the procedure for recovering the NIR by French people returning from expatriation, in particular by facilitating access of CPAMs to the SNGI directory for searches based on civil status, by dematerializing the NIR search procedure for French nationals still residing abroad and by establishing a dedicated circuit within CPAMs for processing reaffiliation files for French people established outside France.
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France · National Assembly · 28 April 2026
Mr Vincent Caure draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the persistent asymmetry of security rules and boarding conditions between Gare du Nord in Paris and St Pancras International station in London for travelers using Eurostar services. The legal framework for the cross-Channel connection is based on the Sangatte protocol of November 25, 1991 (law no. 93-803 of April 21, 1993), its additional protocol signed in Brussels on May 29, 2000 and the Le Touquet Treaty of February 4, 2003, which organize juxtaposed national control offices (BCNJ) in the Paris-Gare du Nord, London-St Pancras, Calais-Fréthun and Lille-Europe stations. These texts provide for double control by the State of departure then by the State of arrival, which should in principle be carried out under comparable conditions on both sides of the Channel. But in reality, an imbalance considerable has taken hold. On the British side, St Pancras station is the subject of a major modernization program aimed at increasing the number of passengers handled per hour by 2,700 within three to four years, then completely overhauling the international zone, with the prospect of a tripling of cross-Channel traffic by 2040. The introduction of biometric airlocks and facial recognition is already reducing passage times there. On the French side, the SNCF unveiled the “Future Gare du Nord” program in December 2025, which notably provides for the redevelopment and expansion of the cross-Channel terminal by 2029, as well as the streamlining of the traveler journey by reorganizing the order and arrangement of ticket controls, French customs, British customs and baggage inspection. This project should make it possible to respond to the 30% increase in traffic expected by 2030. The existence of this program is a step forward that should be welcomed. The fact remains that the completion times are causing great concern among the 179,000 French people registered on the consular lists of Northern Europe, an overwhelming majority of whom reside in the United Kingdom and regularly use this route. While waiting for the work to be completed, travelers departing from Paris must still present at least 45 minutes before departure, or even 60 to 90 minutes during peak periods, where passage times are already reduced on the British side. This asymmetry generates considerable frustration and reduces the comparative advantage of high-speed rail over air travel. The prospect of the full entry into service of the European Entry/Exit System (EES), gradually deployed since October 2025, and the announced arrival of new cross-Channel operators from 2029 will make this modernization even more urgent. He asks what measures the Government intends to take to accelerate the redevelopment of the cross-Channel terminal at the Gare du Nord as part of the “Future Gare du Nord” program, in consultation with the SNCF, Eurostar and the border police authorities, in order to guarantee boarding conditions comparable to those of St Pancras, in accordance with the bilateral commitments resulting from the Sangatte Protocol and the Treaty of Le Touquet, and adapted to the expected increase in cross-Channel rail traffic.
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France · National Assembly · 12 August 2025
Mr. Vincent Caure draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the reform of the competition for access to the post of Secretary of Foreign Affairs (general framework) and more particularly to modern languages 2 (LV2) proposed in the framework. The decree of June 28, 2024 establishing the rules of general organization, the nature and the program of the competition tests for access to the job of business secretary foreign languages (general framework) limits the second foreign language to be chosen by the candidate to German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. In doing so, it excludes other European languages, including those used daily by Northern European embassies. In a world today more multipolar than ever and while France fully assumes its desire to get closer to its Scandinavian partners, it asks him if the Government plans to change the list of modern languages 2 (LV2) offered in the competition for access to the job of secretary of foreign affairs (general framework).
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France · National Assembly · 15 July 2025
Mr. Vincent Caure draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of the Interior, to the difficulties encountered by many parents, particularly expatriates, during their international travel with their minor children. Currently, the French passport and identity card of a minor child do not mention the name of their parents. This omission poses a practical and security problem, particularly for parents who do not carry not the same last name as their child(ren), a common situation in the case of mothers, civil partnerships, or single-parent families. These parents are forced to travel with a family record book, an impractical and fragile document, to be able to prove their parentage in the event of an inspection. Furthermore, it is paradoxical that a person with the same name as a child can travel with him without justification, while the parent legitimate, but with a different name, may be subject to enhanced control. Several countries, including Italy, have already put in place a system allowing the parents' names to be entered in the children's passport, on a specific page adjacent to that of the identity. He therefore wishes to know if the Government plans to change French regulations in order to add, in a secure manner, the names of both parents in the minors' passports or for identity cards, in order to facilitate family travel and strengthen the protection of children.
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France · National Assembly · 1 July 2025
Mr. Vincent Caure draws the attention of the Minister Delegate to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, responsible for foreign trade and French people abroad, to the subject of the obstacles encountered by French pupils and students established abroad when they wish to carry out an internship in France. Many young French people, whether they are educated in foreign secondary or university establishments, express the wish to acquire professional experience, through an internship in a company in France, or in French public administration. However, these approaches frequently come up against the absence of structures capable of providing them with an internship agreement that complies with French requirements: their original establishments are not always able to issue one. If certain French structures, such as chambers of commerce and industry, can issue agreements, these are limited to short-term courses (generally 7 days) aimed at professional discovery. Other organizations such as France Travail also offer agreements, but exclusively for young people who have dropped out of school and are looking for work, which effectively excludes students currently training abroad. Faced with these limitations, he wants to know if devices Specific measures could be put in place, for example, by the services of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs or those of national education, higher education and research, in order to facilitate access to internship agreements for young French people living abroad wishing to acquire professional experience in France.
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France · National Assembly · 24 June 2025
Mr. Vincent Caure questions the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs about the procedures and deadlines necessary to obtain a passport for a newborn born abroad. When a child is born abroad, the passport application is filed after the birth is declared and the birth certificate is issued. This declaration must be made to the consulate within 15 days in Europe and 30 days outside Europe. However, several consulates only accept this declaration by mail, while others do not have sufficient time slots to carry out this procedure following the birth. As a result, the passport application is delayed. In addition to these deadlines, there are those relating to making an appointment. In addition, some consulates have introduced a new rule requiring a delay of one month after birth before accepting any passport application. Faced with these difficulties, some binational families have had to turn to the authorities of the child's other nationality to obtain an identity document before being able to travel. On the other hand, exclusively French families find themselves obliged to wait and postpone their travel plans or visits to their families in France. He therefore asks him to specify the modalities contributing to obtain a passport for children born abroad, of whom at least one parent is French and to consider the possibility of prioritizing appointments for the birth declaration and passport application.
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France · National Assembly · 25 March 2025
Mr. Vincent Caure draws the attention of the Minister Delegate to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, responsible for foreign trade and French people abroad, to the exercise of the functions of honorary consul. Decree No. 76-548 of June 16, 1976 relating to consuls general, consuls and honorary vice-consuls specifies that the heads of constituencies can appoint personalities, French or no, to delegate to them part of their prerogatives and responsibilities after authorization from the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The more than 500 honorary consuls around the world constitute real local relays for consular authorities abroad. In this sense, the Court of Auditors, in its final observations on the subject of consular services provided to French people abroad for the period 2017-2022, notes that the Developing the network of honorary consuls could be an interesting avenue for coping with the increased workload of posts and bringing greater fluidity to the network. Also, he asks him if the circumscription heads are encouraged to identify and appoint more honorary consuls in the coming months, particularly in Northern Europe and if an expansion of their skills is envisaged by the ministry.
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France · National Assembly · 18 March 2025
Mr. Vincent Caure questions the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs on the results of the “French establishment abroad with a sustainable development approach” (EFE3D) label for Northern Europe. Created in 2020, it promotes and encourages member establishments of the Agency for French Education Abroad (AEFE) network to enter into an “education for sustainable development” (ESD) approach, in particular by developing partnerships with local stakeholders and through three levels of labeling. For the 2022-2023 campaign, the label was awarded to nearly 40% of the network's establishments with the objective that by 2030, all establishments will be labeled. This year, the procedure for applying for labeling has been simplified and it is now awarded for a period of four years. He asks if encrypted data is available for Northern Europe including the evolution of the number of labeled establishments since the creation of the label and their distribution according to the three levels of advancement.
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France · National Assembly · 25 February 2025
Mr. Vincent Caure questions the Minister of State, Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research regarding the use of artificial intelligence by member establishments of the Agency for French Education Abroad (AEFE) network. The Summit for Action on Artificial Intelligence held in Paris from February 10 to 11, 2025 in Paris accelerated awareness of the need to build our own digital tools that respect values, particularly in the educational field. On this subject, a partnership was signed in 2023 between the National Center for Distance Education (Cned) and the AEFE with the aim of making available the AI-based homework help conversational agent called “Jules” for middle school level. Also, he would like to know if a progress report has already been carried out, making it possible to assess the effectiveness of this system as well as the number of users for Northern Europe.
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France · National Assembly · 18 February 2025
Mr. Vincent Caure draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty to the situation of French people residing abroad, who are increasingly faced with high administrative management fees on their bank accounts in France, due to their tax residence abroad. Although banks have the freedom to modulate their pricing conditions, in accordance with the law and after prior notification to the client within two months, it seems that the regular and significant increase in these costs, simply because of residence, constitutes a form of discrimination against French people living abroad. Faced with this situation, he would like to know whether the Government plans to take measures aimed at capping these management fees, particularly for bank accounts held in France for several years, even several decades.
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France · National Assembly · 17 December 2024
Mr. Vincent Caure questions the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs about the recent loss of the right to vote in local elections for French people living in the United Kingdom since May 3, 2024, following Brexit. Currently, the British local authorities, responsible for the electoral registers, are removing French people who arrived after December 31, 2020 from these registers. Only nationals of European Union (EU) countries who arrived before this date, with the exception of Portugal, Poland, Spain, Denmark and Luxembourg and who have concluded bilateral agreements with the United Kingdom retain their right to vote in local elections. This loss of rights has consequences which go beyond just democratic participation since registration on the electoral register in the United Kingdom protects residents against fraud and has for example a impact on the credit ratings of residents, thus facilitating their access to property loans or mobile telephone contracts. Faced with this situation, he would like to know whether the Government plans to enter into negotiations with the United Kingdom with a view to a bilateral agreement reciprocally restoring the right to vote in local elections for French nationals in the United Kingdom and British nationals in France.
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France · National Assembly · 17 December 2024
Mr. Vincent Caure questions the Minister of Health and Access to Care on the situation of French doctors qualified in the United Kingdom and who began their studies before Brexit. Since January 1, 2021, these health professionals have been unable to have their diplomas automatically recognized in France, even though they still comply today with European directives 2005/36/EC of September 7 2005. The only option for these professionals is to complete their training outside France (5 to 15 years depending on the specialty), then go through the equivalence procedure for non-EU doctors. This procedure involves highly selective competitions and an additional two years of training in a French hospital, during which their career progression is blocked. This situation is particularly unfair for these professionals who began their studies in a context where the recognition of their qualifications was assured. In addition, it deprives France of highly qualified healthcare workers while needs are growing. He would also like to know what measures the Government plans to take to facilitate the recognition of medical diplomas obtained in the United Kingdom by French nationals, in particular for those who have started their studies before Brexit and whether a transitional system allowing these doctors to benefit from simplified recognition of their qualifications could, for example, be considered.
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France · National Assembly · 29 October 2024
Mr. Vincent Caure questions the Minister of the Interior about the exclusion of certain elected consular officials from the list of categories of people eligible for a service passport, established by decree no. 2015-701 of June 19, 2015, modifying decree no. principle of non-attribution of a service passport for elected officials consulars. If it can be understood for consular advisors elected in so-called “safe” countries, this principle is not without consequences for others, in particular those elected in conflict zones or countries classified orange or red by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs. In the absence of a service passport, these elected officials may in fact find it impossible to cross the borders of certain countries and incur penalties. significant risks linked to armed conflicts. The issuance of a service passport would allow these elected officials to access the French communities in their constituency in a more secure manner. Also, alerted by the Assembly of French People Abroad on this point, he asked if consideration was being given to allowing certain elected consular officials to benefit from a service passport and thus fully exercise their mandate without risk.