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Teacher pay in France has fallen significantly behind other graduate professions and must be raised substantially.

The French baccalauréat reform has produced better subject alignment with students' abilities than the previous undifferentiated examination.

Lycée professionnel students are resourced at a significantly lower level than academic track students and deserve equality of investment.

Parcoursup's opaque algorithmic allocation makes university entrance less transparent and equitable than the previous system.

The grandes écoles system perpetuates elite social reproduction and should be opened up through reformed admissions and integration with universities.

France should implement mandatory anti-discrimination training in all public sector hiring and in companies above a minimum size.

Zone-based affirmative action (discrimination positive géographique) targeting disadvantaged urban areas should be expanded.

France's republican integration model — prioritising individual assimilation over communitarian recognition — has produced contested outcomes that require honest evaluation.

Discrimination in hiring and housing against French citizens of immigrant background is a serious ongoing injustice requiring active enforcement.

France's integration infrastructure is insufficiently resourced relative to the pace of arrivals, creating real social strain.

France's banlieues reflect decades of deliberate economic and geographic exclusion that policing cannot resolve.

Laïcité as applied in France restricts legitimate religious expression in ways that go beyond what secularism requires.

France should significantly reduce the maximum term length for local elected officials to prevent entrenched local political oligarchies.

The rise of the Rassemblement National reflects failures by mainstream parties to address real economic concerns of peripheral France.

Citizens' assemblies, as demonstrated by the Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat, should become a regular feature of French democracy.

Using Article 49.3 to bypass parliament on major legislation without a democratic emergency undermines legislative legitimacy.

France should introduce proportional representation for National Assembly elections.

The gilets jaunes movement exposed legitimate grievances about economic inequality and democratic exclusion that have not been structurally addressed.

The Fifth Republic gives the President too much power and should be reformed toward a more genuinely parliamentary model.

France should reintegrate more fully into NATO's integrated military command structure to strengthen European defence coordination.