PARIS (AFP) A French parliament report called Tuesday for a ban on the full veil, saying Muslim women who wear the burqa were challenging French values in an unacceptable man-ner. After six months of hearings, a panel of 32 lawmakers recommended a ban on the face-covering veil in all scho-ols, hospitals, public transport and government offices, the broadest move yet to restrict Muslim dress in France. The wearing of the full veil is a challenge to our republic. This is unacceptable, the report said. We must condemn this excess. The commission called on parliament to adopt a formal resolution stating that the all-encompassing veil was 'contrary to the values of the republic and proclaiming that 'all of France is saying 'no to the full veil. The National Assembly resolution would pave the way to legislation making it illegal for anyone to appear with their face covered at state-run institutions and in public transport, for reasons of security. Women who turn up at government offices wearing the full veil would be denied services such as a work visa, residency papers or French citizenship, the report said. The panel, however, stopped short of proposing broad legislation to outlaw the burqa in the streets and all public venues such as shopping centres. Lawmakers cautioned that such a measure would first have to be reviewed by the courts to establish its legality. The wearing of the full veil is the tip of the iceberg, said communist lawmaker Andre Gerin, the chair of the commission, after formally presenting the report to the parliament speaker. There are scandalous practices hidden behind this veil, said Gerin who vowed to fight the gurus seeking to export a radical brand of fundamentalism and sectarianism to France. Tensions flared at the last minute when a group of right-wing MPs pushed unsuccessfully for a tougher measure to ban the burqa in all public venues. During the last-minute squabbling, two of the initial 18 recommendations were dropped from the final report. Those proposals touched on setting up a national centre of Islamic studies and conducting a parliamentary study on Islamophobia. The opposition Socialists said they would not endorse the final report, to protest the governments launching of a debate on national identity, which has exposed French fears about Islam. Home to Europes biggest Muslim minority, estimated at about six million, France is being closely watched at a time of particular unease over Islam, three months after Swiss voters approved a ban on minarets.