French President Emmanuel Macron defended this Wednesday a “significant reduction in immigration”, starting with illegal immigration, guaranteeing that the Government will resume its bill on the subject, several times postponed, in the next legislative session.
“Are we overwhelmed by immigration? No. It is wrong to say that. Having said that, the situation as we know it is not sustainable and we must significantly reduce immigration, starting with illegal immigration,” Macron stressed in an interview with the weekly . Le Point, published online.
For the French head of state, the European external borders must be “better protected”, recalling that “France is not a country of first entry into Europe, but above all a country of secondary immigration for foreigners who enter through another country of the European Union “. [UE]”.
“We must also be more effective when it comes to enforcing the right to asylum, deceived by the trafficking networks. This is the core of the bill prepared by the government,” Emmanuel Macron detailed.
“In summary, yes, we must reduce immigration, but we must continue acting in parallel through the school, integration, authority, the Republic and the economy. When you have 10% unemployment for years, you do not integrate “, considered the French President.
In this regard, Macron announced that the Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, will resume the immigration bill, the analysis of which, which began this winter in the Senate, has been postponed several times.
“We are going, with the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, to instruct the Minister of the Interior from the beginning of the legislative session to exchange ideas with all the opposition forces that are going in the same direction and to build the most effective project possible,” Macron stressed. .
While the executive struggles to find a majority on this text, the head of state wants to avoid resorting to 49-3, an article of the Constitution that allows the adoption of a law without a vote in the lower house of Parliament.
But he also added that he was “in favor of using the instruments of the Constitution.”
“We need results and therefore if that text were to be blocked, nothing should be banned,” he said.
Source: TSF
