Catherine Field
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810 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Sep
Catherine Field’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It went through Parliament, raced through Parliament, 279 votes in favour, 81 against.
Upper house, same sort of figures, 243 in favor, two against.
It went to the Constitutional Council and it said that essentially it was disproportionately infringing freedom of.
expression for people aged under fifteen.
And said, take it back to the drawing board.
Now will there be time uh to get it through Parliament?
But of course Parliament is going to go into recess when we get near the presidential elections next year.
Uh what does he do?
Well, some politicians are saying just put it to a referendum.
Well, not sure that will even get through.
So essentially what was meant to be come the first of September, which is the start of the new school year and
France, uh politicians, parents who had said this needs to go through because of cyberbullying, it won't go through.
And all the President has been able to do is say to the Prime Minister, go back to the drawing board and try and get this through Parliament before next spring.
Essentially that's what it's saying, you know, when you d start drawing up this sort of legislation too quickly, uh, the it just didn't have the proper oversight all the way through, which is astounding because this is something that President Macron has been going on and on about for what pretty much the whole of his term in office.
He's been uh in office now nine years.
Uh perhaps he just thought that he could get it through now and raced it through.
you um before leaving office next year?
Oh the heat.
Well, we're told that the heat this fifth heat wave is going to end later this week.
But certainly the main focus at the moment, although there are still wildfires, Greece, Spain, Italy, Germany and in France, is the big one in eastern Belgium, which is is gonna be a difficult one this one, Mike, because it's in a nature reserve which is mostly peatland and dense vegetation, right up against the German border.
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