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Fifth Republic

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Fifth Republic
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(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the French republic established in 1958 as the successor to the Fourth Republic. Its constitution is characterized by the strong position of the president


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The Vichy regime partly broke the stalemate by turning the EPS into colleges, but the Fifth Republic, created in 1958, undertook the most basic restructuring, building upon the Fourth Republic's e xpansion of post-primary schooling in traditional academic lycees, technical schools, and the apprenticeship centers planned in 1938 and extended by Vichy.
To foil political instability resulting from strife between the executive and the legislative branches of the government, they agreed to model the constitution under revision after that of the Fifth Republic of France.
He dedicated his 14-year presidency, the longest since the Fifth Republic was established in 1958, to building a more united Europe on the foundation of close Franco-German relations.
 
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