Hollande drops controversial amendment

- French President Francois Hollande abandons plans to change the constitution. The change was aimed among others at removing the citizenship of persons convicted of terrorism. Hollande said Wednesday that he stops the debate. He gives up, after it was revealed in his opinion that the French House of Representatives and the Senate, there still would not come out.

The measure was announced in Versailles with many ceremonies, shortly after the bloody attacks in Paris last year on 13 November. But it led to heated debates about the usefulness and legality. Dropping this plan, according to observers, an embarrassing defeat for the socialist president Hollande.