On June 8th 2013, the Council of Europe General Assembly adopted the The progress of the Assembly’s monitoring procedure (June 2011-May 2012) calling among others France to sign and ratify 

• Protocol No. 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights (ETS No. 177) concerning the fight against discrimination;

to ratify 

• the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ETS No. 148);

to sign and ratify

•  the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (ETS No. 157);

Not just this call is much more interesting than the arguments between French Ministers and Brussel's Commission about what can be fueling the use of the right to vote angrily... but it is worth a debate as to why the parliament has only partial views on equality.