The European Market is brough into effect. In May 1995, Jacques Chirac is elected president of the Republic. With the French National Assembly s dissolution pronounced the 21st April 1997, some anticipated elections to the legislature took place the 25 May and the 1st June. Some regional and cantonal elections occured in March and ended in a new system of government of living together . The French identity France, despite its geographic and demographic varieties, enjoys a great unity and a very strong cultural personality.
French people are conscious of their history and identity in an acute way.
Defence of freedom and the Human Rights, democeacy and solidarity are the foundations of modern France. These values became universal. Foreigners in France During the last forty years, immigration contributed to the growth of the French population and to its prosperity. With the economic crisis, immigration has been officially stopped. The foreigners proportion is pratically stable since 1990.