Talk:Commune in France

message: I read : It is unclear yet where the trend is going. Will the intercommunal structures have representatives directly elected by the citizens in the future, as the Mauroy Report proposed in 2000? But then wouldn't this leave the communes like hollow administrative units? 
But de facto, most of French communes are already nothing but administrative units, the main role of the mayor being acting as a deconcentrated agent of the state, all decentralized power being given to the intercommunal structure (and tht explain Mauroy's choice to leave the seat of Mayor in Lille to become President of the intercommunality).
:What you say is exagerated. For one, there's a very important power left in the hands of mayors: municipal police. As heads of municipal police, mayors are not acting as deconcentrated agents of the state. Also, not all matters have been transferred to the intercommunal structures. In communities of communes especially, the mayors still keep many powers. Hardouin 17:28, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The future of communes

message: For noate I made a template :Template:French communes to Mirror the one on FR wikipedia... with a few minor changes you can take the data from the French pages and add it to the English ones...  See the template talk page for some issues or anything else about it. gren 23:36, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template 

message: There is no list of communes of French Polynesia. French Polynesia is also not mentioned in the article Commune in France nor in the article Lists of communes of France. Do the communes in French Polynesia have some kind of special status and are not mentioned because of that?In the French-language Wikipedia, there is already a collection (although not a list) of communes in French Polynesia: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communes_de_Polyn%C3%A9sie_fran%C3%A7aise.Here is also a list (the numbers in this list coincide with the list in the French-language Wikipedia):http://www.statoids.com/ypf.html .Yet another list (with missing numbers):http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=1126512541&men=gcis&lng=en&gln=xx&dat=32&srt=npan&col=aohdq&geo=-169.-- Citylover 08:17, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: French Polynesia is divided into communes, like the rest of France. These communes have the regular status of French communes. Hardouin 14:18, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If we are to nitpick, one may point that not all France is divided into communes (the TAAF aren't, for instance, and I'm unsure about Wallis and Futuna with their customary rulers). David.Monniaux 05:37, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  (list of) communes in French Polynesia 

message: I read the article, and it is very interesting. Here are is a suggestion:
* Doesn't the word communism come from commune ? If so, it could be mentionned
Ze miguel 10:35, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Not exactly, commune is derived from the latin word "communia" meaning a gathering of people sharing a common life- aka a community, and communism  is from the latin "communis" meaning things held in common.Xerex 12:14, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions 

message: Maybe we could put that in somewere? --Comanche cph 08:47, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In commune (subnational entity). — Poulpy 10:42, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scandinavia also use the word Commune (Kommune)