In the press - Immigration law: "half-hearted victory", "fiasco"... The very critical press

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All that for this. Unanimously, the French press is very critical after the revision of part of the immigration bill.

describes a “half-hearted victory” for the government. On the one hand, the Wise Men of the Constitutional Council censored 40% of the law - mainly articles wanted by the right -, but, on the other hand, the hand extended to the right and to the ideas supported by the extreme right, by simple political strategy will be difficult to forget. For

, this is a government “fiasco”. “This project ends as it began: in shame,” writes the newspaper.

describes a "political shock" under the Fifth Republic.

On the right, we cry heresy.

speaks of a “censorship of contributions” from the Les Républicains party. Everyone takes it for granted, the President of the Republic, the government and the members of the Constitutional Council, accused of going beyond their duties. “No one won and France lost,” we can read in the editorial. Like Laurent Wauquiez, the Republicans are demanding either a referendum on immigration or a revision of the Constitution. Same tone from the National Rally which denounces a “coup de force des judges”.

Abroad, the issue is being closely scrutinized by our neighbors. In Germany, the

denounces Emmanuel Macron's "dangerous strategy to fight against the right and the extreme right". In Switzerland, the newspaper,

, describes an "atypical legal procedure", namely, passing a text knowing it to be deliberately unconstitutional.

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