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France's National Day

EDM number 327 in 2016-17, proposed by George Kerevan on 13/07/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Cultural heritage and Western Europe.

That this House sends friendly greetings to the people of France on 14 July; notes that this date was designated as their National Day by law on 6 July 1880 in commemoration of the Fête de la Fédération which took place on 14 July 1790 at a time when the country was seeking out national, political and peaceful unity following the divisive events of 1789 to 1790; champions the long association between the various peoples of France and the British Isles, including the Auld Alliance between France and Scotland; remembers that in December 1939, Britain and France created an Anglo-French Coordinating Committee for the joint planning of their wartime economies, a body chaired by Jean Monnet, who was later the founding father of the European Economic Community; further notes that on 16 June 1940, the British War Cabinet agreed a resolution stating that France and Great Britain would no longer be two nations, but one Franco-British Union, the constitution of the Union will provide for joint organs of defence, foreign, financial and economic policies, that every citizen of France would enjoy immediately citizenship of Great Britain, and that every British subject would become a citizen of France; and hopes that, whatever the outcome of the negotiations following the 23 June 2016 referendum to take the UK out of the EU the peoples of France, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will continue to enjoy close ties of friendship and economic cooperation.

This motion has been signed by a total of 38 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
George Kerevan13/07/2016East LothianScottish National PartyProposed
Stephen Gethins13/07/2016North East FifeScottish National PartySeconded
Margaret Ferrier13/07/2016Rutherglen and Hamilton WestScottish National PartySeconded
Tommy Sheppard13/07/2016Edinburgh EastScottish National PartySeconded
Ian Blackford13/07/2016Ross, Skye and LochaberScottish National PartySeconded
Peter Bottomley13/07/2016Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Roger Mullin13/07/2016Kirkcaldy and CowdenbeathScottish National PartySigned
Michelle Thomson13/07/2016Edinburgh WestScottish National PartySigned
Richard Arkless13/07/2016Dumfries and GallowayScottish National PartySigned
Alan Brown14/07/2016Kilmarnock and LoudounScottish National PartySigned
Alison Thewliss14/07/2016Glasgow CentralScottish National PartySigned
Martyn Day14/07/2016Linlithgow and East FalkirkScottish National PartySigned
Jim Shannon14/07/2016StrangfordDUPSigned
Natalie McGarry14/07/2016Glasgow EastScottish National PartySigned
Paul Monaghan14/07/2016Caithness, Sutherland and Easter RossScottish National PartySigned
John McNally14/07/2016FalkirkScottish National PartySigned
Hywel Williams14/07/2016ArfonPlaid CymruSigned
Chris Stephens14/07/2016Glasgow South WestScottish National PartySigned
Angus MacNeil18/07/2016Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Alan Meale18/07/2016MansfieldLabourSigned
Marion Fellows18/07/2016Motherwell and WishawScottish National PartySigned
Bob Neill18/07/2016Bromley and ChislehurstConservativeSigned
Chris Law18/07/2016Dundee WestScottish National PartySigned
Angela Crawley19/07/2016Lanark and Hamilton EastScottish National PartySigned
Gavin Robinson19/07/2016Belfast EastDUPSigned
Kirsten Oswald19/07/2016East RenfrewshireScottish National PartySigned
Hannah Bardell20/07/2016LivingstonScottish National PartySigned
Anne McLaughlin20/07/2016Glasgow North EastScottish National PartySigned
Edward Leigh20/07/2016GainsboroughConservativeSigned
Brendan O'Hara20/07/2016Argyll and ButeScottish National PartySigned
Carol Monaghan20/07/2016Glasgow North WestScottish National PartySigned
Stuart Donaldson20/07/2016West Aberdeenshire and KincardineScottish National PartySigned
Alasdair McDonnell20/07/2016Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Owen Thompson21/07/2016MidlothianScottish National PartySigned
Gavin Newlands21/07/2016Paisley and Renfrewshire NorthScottish National PartySigned
Tasmina Sheikh05/09/2016Ochil and South PerthshireScottish National PartySigned
Peter Grant05/09/2016GlenrothesScottish National PartySigned
John Nicolson06/09/2016East DunbartonshireScottish National PartySigned

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