Everyone agrees, when he does not call, on the need for national defense secrecy which applies to protect our security, the fundamental interests of the nation and our public freedoms.
And everyone can force themselves to define their uses, both individually and in the public space that is collective to us, in the face of a major challenge or in times of war.
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However, safeguards are necessary in a democracy, where the state cannot think for itself, far from society.
The recent publication in
the Official Journal
of an interministerial general instruction of November 13, 2020 specifying the regulatory provisions regarding access to the archives of the nation reminds us of this.
Taking advantage of the last periodic revision of this text, the first version of which dates from 1952 until the penultimate in 2011, the government felt it had to go beyond the general provisions provided for by the law on archives of July 15, 2008, which already subject to a long delay access to
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