2023-11-25 15:59:38
Immigration necessary for the reindustrialization of France? In any case, this is what the Minister for Industry Roland Lescure underlined this Saturday, estimating around 100,000 to 200,000 the number of foreign talents needed in the next ten years. “We will undoubtedly have to resort to immigration (…)”, he said on franceinfo while the Law Commission of the National Assembly will take up this Monday the highly controversial text on Immigration, already examined in the Senate.
Dozens of other countries, Germany or Canada for example, are already embarking on this path, noted the Minister of Industry. “We must pull out all the stops so that the French nation is once again an industrial, ecological and sovereign nation,” he pleaded, insisting on the need to “put all the effort into training,” ‘”to seek out young people in the suburbs” where unemployment remains much higher than the national average but also to improve the employment rate of seniors.
“We will probably have to look elsewhere”
“I did not say that it was necessary to open wide the floodgates of economic immigration,” he tempered, while the question of regularizing undocumented workers in professions in tension is fiercely debated at the Parliament. But, detailed Roland Lescure, “if we manage to train 800,000 to 900,000 young and old people in the industry in the next ten years, frankly, it will be exceptional” and “there will still be a shortage of 100,000 to 200,000 (workers) who will undoubtedly have to be found elsewhere.”
“It’s not the tsunami,” he insisted, inviting “a somewhat peaceful vision of the subject” and to move away from the “somewhat caricatured” debate on immigration in France. “We need to be firmer and more effective (on irregular immigration),” he said, but there is also, he continued, “a more reasoned immigration, which helps us , win-win exists.”
According to the minister, around 1.3 million jobs are to be filled in the industry in the next ten years due to retirements (800,000 to 900,000) and new sites planned. He welcomed the “Talent Passport” system which makes it possible to issue residence permits to foreign engineers or researchers. But according to him, other qualifications are currently lacking in French industry, such as welders or metalworkers.
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