The President of the Republic takes up Michel Rocard’s famous maxim, believing that France is already doing “its part” when it comes to welcoming immigrants from the South.
Emmanuel Macron considered that Pope Francis was “right” on the issue of migration, while believing that France “cannot accommodate all the misery in the world.”
The Holy Father called on Saturday for “European responsibility” in the reception of immigrants, deploring that candidates for exile “suffer persecution” and are not “full citizens” in Europe. More than 8,000 people arrived in Lampedusa in mid-September
In an interview with TF1 and France 2, Emmanuel Macron believes that “we, the French, are doing our part.” “We also have to be rigorous, we have a generous social model and we cannot accommodate all the misery in the world,” he explained.
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Source: BFM TV
