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France maintains a strict model of secularism—laïcité—that separates religion from public institutions, with growing friction and disputes over where it ends and begins.
’s legal regime separates religion from the state and limits visible religious expression in many public institutions: a 2004 law bans "conspicuous" religious symbols in public primary and secondary s...
in 2025 continues to implement an assimilationist, -centred model that restricts visible religious markers and steers mosque support toward secular infrastructure, while follows a more multicultural, ...