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Emmanuel Macron has made immigration one of the markers of the second half of his quinquennium. The French president does not want to leave this ground on the far right. This Wednesday, the government must make announcements on the new migration policy of France, one month after a debate on the subject in the Assembly. The outline is already known with 20 measures that are on the table.
Édouard Philippe presented Monday evening to several ministers and parliamentarians of the majority the main lines of the new French migration policy. The Prime Minister confirmed several announcements he made to the rostrum of the National Assembly a month ago.
First, the main measure and true revolution in the French system: quotas of economic immigration according to the needs of the professional sectors, on the Canadian and Australian models. Each year, a consultation will take place between the Ministry of Labor, Pôle emploi, the unions, the employers and the regions to fix these quotas in professions lacking arms. Quotas in building, catering, service sector. The list of these quantified objectives will be known next summer according to the Minister of Labor.
This quota policy, the right dreamed of it and it is therefore Emmanuel Macron who wants to tackle it. The idea was already launched by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007. Alain Juppé also made immigration quotas one of the flagship measures of his program during the presidential elections of 2017. Just like François Fillon, candidate of the right against Emmanuel Macron.
Emmanuel Macron hunt on the grounds of the RN
These immigration announcements are part of a grand strategy of the head of state to counter the National Gathering. The most recent offensive , the most visible and the most controversial, is this interview in Valeurs Actuelles last week. On 12 pages, Emmanuel Macron gave his vision on immigration and he said he was ready for " legal migration quotas " to fill unfilled positions. " There are jobs that you will no longer occupy to French as the job of diver, " said the president before adding: " I prefer to have people from Guinea or Ivory Coast legal, who are there and who are doing this work, whether Bulgarian or Ukrainian clandestine sectors. "
At the beginning of September already, Emmanuel Macron had put the subject at the top of the pile. Before the government and parliamentarians of the majority, he had regretted a " right of asylum diverted from its purpose " and denounced the " bourgeois " who would turn away from the subject. At 5 months of municipal and 2 and a half years of the presidential Emmanuel Macron clear hunt on the grounds of the RN .
The goal: to convince the right-wing electorate who slipped a newsletter En Marche to the Europeans to definitely switch over to macronism rather than lepenism.
Hardening of family reunification
Among the other measures planned by the government, family reunification should be toughened. Just like access to naturalization. Emmanuel Macron also wants to fight against the abuse of medical aid: asylum seekers will have to wait 3 months to access the Puma, the universal protection that covers basic medical needs. State medical aid is spared, but some non-urgent acts can be validated by Social Security. There will be more controls on ADA beneficiaries, assistance to asylum seekers. Two measures that will be discussed on Thursday in the Assembly. Finally, the Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons and the National Asylum Court will receive money to speed up the processing of asylum applications.
To summarize, the reactions are almost the same as those in the hemicycle last month: the right welcomes the establishment of quotas but finds that Emmanuel Macron does not go far enough, especially on state medical aid. The left, denounces the "instrumentalization" of the theme of immigration to divert the French from social concerns.
Within En Marche and the partners of the majority, the subject is debated. Several deputies of the left wing warned several weeks ago: attention danger, slippery ground! Others regret that this theme takes up so much space, alongside employment or the environment.