Michel Barnier under double pressure from his camp and the RN on immigration

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2024-09-18 03:00:09

Michel Barnier at the parliamentary days of the Horizons group, in Reims (Marne), September 11, 2024.

Them “Step by Step” rather than “The show’s out”. On the issue of migration, as on the rest, Michel Barnier played a silent role, promising to tackle this sensitive topic “with hard and steadfastness”, syear show your cards. Is there a need for an important ministry, at the risk of recalling the period of controversy of the “minister of immigration and national identity” organized under Nicolas Sarkozy after his 2007 election? “You’ll see”evades the former European Commissioner, the question on Thursday September 12, refusing to directly deny the information from Franceinfo, revealed three days earlier.

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Completely committed to his delicate mission of forming a government capable of resisting the movement of sanctions, the tenant Matignon tried to avoid topics of political tension. Place “under surveillance” of the National Rally (RN), in the words of the leader of the Lepéniste party, Jordan Bardella, the representative of the Republicans (LR) knows that the migration question is, after the budget subject, at the top of his pile. happiness “No political power can ignore this subject”judge Frédéric Dabi, president of the election agency Ifop, describing the painful thought, he said, in the opinion of a State that has lost control of migrant flows.

Prime Minister, who decided to do it “rupture” with the line of Emmanuel Macron, accused of an angel by the RN, seeks to draw himself, while in Europe, the taboos have fallen. Germany, led by a social democratic government, has decided to re-establish border controls for six months. Across the channel, Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer decided to draw inspiration from the policy of right-wing leader Giorgia Meloni, who made the migrant a victim. “exciter” external power.

LR’s split line

To address this topic, a sign of the watershed between left and right, the tenant of Matignon seeks the right tone. But for now it is content to praise them “stability” and the“person”a classic diptych told about the whole kingdom. “You want practical solutions, to surround yourself with experts on a sensitive subject, not ideologues”a Push Rue de Varenne in reference to Patrick Buisson, former advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy, defender of a “inalienable right”, behind the creation of the Ministry of Immigration and National Identity. “There are reflections on measures and solutions on this very important topic for France”support the advisor to the Prime Minister specifically that “Not the title people were expecting”.

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