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...Conversely, France applies a number of alternative matrimonial property regimes depending on the marriage contract, from séparation de biens (similar to the English “separation of ownership”) to communauté...
...This can be seen in the way two layers of local authorities – the town council and Lille’s communauté urbaine, the administrative body responsible for economic policy in the wider area, have collaborated...
...Among the groups are the Alpe Maritimes regional council, Communauté d’Agglomération Sophia Antipolis (CASA) which groups the 16 town councils in the region and the Fondation Sophia Antipolis, a non-profit...
...“The advantage of the Communauté universelle is that the charge, when it comes, can be fully offset against IHT,” he says....
...She is married under “la régime de la communauté” and taxed jointly with her husband – although at present they pay no tax because their income isn’t high enough....
...Mr Mauroy, now president of the Communauté Urbaine de Lille, says: “For us, it was a new starting point. In France, everything had been centralised in Paris. All of a sudden it seemed to open up....
...Seillière revealed that he now wants to change the name of the Union des Industries de la Communauté européenne (Unice) to, shock, horror, something English such as the Confederation of European Business...
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