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Under the 1946 Constitution of the Fourth Republic, the French colonies of Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana in the Caribbean and Réunion in the Indian Ocean became départements d'outre-mer (Overseas departments) or DOMs.

As integral parts of the French Republic, they are represented in the National AssemblyThis article concerns the modern National Assembly. For information about the body formed in the French Revolution, see National Assembly (French Revolution). The French National Assembly ( French: Assemblee nationale is one of the two houses of the bicam, SenateThe current French Senate (in French : Senat is the upper house of the Parliament of France. A Senat was also the upper house during the French Consulate of 1799- 1804. Composition and election The French Senate presently has 321 senators who are elected and Economic and Social CouncilThe Economic and Social Council of France is a consultative assembly. It does not play a role in the adoption of statutes and regulations, but advises the lawmaking bodies on questions of social and economic policies. The executive may refer any question, elect a Member of the European ParliamentThe European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union. Other organisations of European countries such as NATO, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, and the Western European Union have parliamentary assemblies as well, but the European Parlia (MEP), and also use the EuroThe euro ISO 4217 code EUR is the currency of twelve of the twenty-five nations that form the European Union (and four outside it, as well as Montenegro and Kosovo), which form the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). It is the result of the most significan as their currency.

Since 1982Events January January 6 William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara du, following the French governmentThis article is about the political and administrative structures of the French government. For French political parties and tendencies, see Politics of France. In its Constitution, France declares itself to be an indivisible, laique [roughly, " secular"]'s policy of decentralization, they have elected regional councils with powers similar to those of the régions of metropolitan France. As a result of a constitutional revision which occurred in 2003, these régions are now to be called régions d'outre-mer ; indeed the new wording of the Constitution aims to give no precedence to either appelation département or région d'outre-mer, though the second one is still virtually unused by French media.