The French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that the former health minister Simone Veil will be buried in the Pantheon in Paris.
A survivor of the Holocaust, Veil is best known for leading the campaign for the legislation of abortion in France in 1974.
Almost half a million people had signed a petition asking that she be buried in the Pantheon alongside France's national heroes.
Our Europe correspondent Elena Casas reports from Brussels.
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