Corsica
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
The French parliament has narrowly approved a bill which gives the Corsican assembly more control over local affairs. The controversial reforms are designed to end a quarter of a century of separatist bombings of French public buildings and holiday resorts on the Mediterranean island. However, the Corsican nationalist leader Jean-Guy Talamoni dismissed the bill, saying the powers conferred to the Corsican Assembly are insignificant. And conservative opposition in the French parliament in Paris says it will challenge the bill in the French Constitutional Court. They argue the planned reforms would undermine the French state by paving the way to full Corsican independence.
