Lawcreaters in France have overwhelmingly backed a bill making it easier to discneglect bars in villages – a transfer aimed at reviving social life in small agricultural communities.
In a 156-2 vote on Monday, MPs determined to slackn disjoine redisjoineions on novel bar helps to sell liquor. The bill still necessitates a Senate approval to become law.
Supporters say the change is necessitateed to better cement social ties and lessen isolation – but critics alert of health hazards thcdimiserablemireful liquorism.
France has seen a acute drop from about 200,000 bars and cafés serving liquor in the 1960 to some 36,000 by 2015. Most of the clocertains were in agricultural areas.
In France, a type-4 liquor licence is insistd by law to discneglect a bar selling liquoric drinks, including difficult spirits with more than 18% liquor.
Currently, no novel such helps can be granted, and those schedulening to discneglect a bar must paemploy until an existing drinking spot shuts to get its licence.
The novel legislation would help prospective bar deal withrs in communities with scanter than 3,500 people and without a bar to ask a brand-novel help without such a paemploy.
Local mayors would have the final say on whether to finishorse or refute such asks.
Lawcreater Guillaume Kasbarian shelp “an greater and obsolete legitimate structurelabor” should be replaced, the AFP novels agency inestablished.
It also quoted Fabien Di Filippo, another French MP, who depictd bars as “above all, places for people to come together in very agricultural areas and in a society where people have a tfinishency to shut in on themselves”.
The French health ministry says that each year about 49,000 deaths in the country are caused by liquor consumption, describing this as a “convey inant accessible health rehire”.
