Talk:Overseas department
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[edit] Reunion
Is this overseas region going to be split into two departments? Passer-by 12:47, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rewrite
I found it unnecessarily difficult to pin down ecxactly the status of the Overseas Departments—Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion, and French Guiana. I feel strongly that the first statement in this article should be an unambigous declaration that the have the same political status as metropolitan departments.
I was only able to find that out by reading the middle paragraph of the article Metropolitan France.
Nwbeeson 15:50, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
In this regard the following statement might be misleading: "These overseas departments have the same political status as metropolitan departments and are integral parts of France, similar to how Hawaii is a state and an integral part of the United States." The only distinction one makes between the US with Hawaii and the US without Hawaii is geographical: one says 'continental US' to indicate the US without Hawaii (like one says 'contiguous' to leave out Hawaii and Alaska). Is the distinction between Metropolitan France and the Republic of France (see [[1]]) the same as that between continental US and 'US' tout court? Richardson mcphillips1 02:28, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
I agree with the statement that comparing Guadeloupe & France vs. Hawaii vs. United States is misleading, especially if you understand how the United States is politically organized. The United States is a Union, with most domestic (intrastate) power conferred to the states, while the federal government retains most of the international and interstate powers. France, on the other hand is a unitary republic, not a union or federal republic. The analogy is completely wrong, unless Guadeloupe has a special status that gives it some sovereignty the rest of the regions of France do not have. --WisTex (talk) 23:25, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't agree. The sentence is carefully worded and doesn't say e.g. that Hawaii and French Guyana have the same political status. For this comparison it doesn't matter how the US is organized as long as you understand that French Guyana is a French Departement with full rights just like Hawaii is a US State with full rights, even though they are both far away from their main lands. -- Repetition (talk) 14:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
