France takes a step in deciding the introduction of quotas for professional immigration, planned for 2021, to meet the labor needs of sectors "in tension", a decision able to fuel the trial in " rightization "Emmanuel Macron within the majority.
Prime Minister Édouard Philippe to unveil twenty measures, Wednesday, November 6, after an interdepartmental committee on immigration and integration, which crowns several months of government reflection and a parliamentary debate on "migration policy of France and Europe ". Édouard Philippe then felt that "the question of piloting objectives of admission to stay" was not "taboo".
The idea has been defended for a long time by the right and divides the majority, which is worried about a hardening of the French legislation, for the right of asylum in particular, while Emmanuel Macron draws the prospect of a new duel with the president of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, for the presidential election of 2022.
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"We are facing a great hypocrisy: the sectors of restoration and construction do not work without immigration." Pretend the opposite is wrong, "said the president in a recent interview with Valeurs actuelles. "I prefer to have legal, registered, quota-based migration for x years rather than hidden hidden work."
The Minister of Labor, Muriel Pénicaud, confirmed Tuesday on BFM TV that the government was working on the establishment of "quantified objectives" on the basis of a list of trades called "in tension" that the Directorate of Animation of research, studies and statistics (Dares) and Pôle Emploi are responsible for updating. This list should be ready for the summer of 2020 and the reform come into force in 2021.
According to Le Parisien, who was aware of a note on this subject, the list of trades would be redefined each year by decree, after consultation with parliamentarians, "without competing with the local workforce".
The right denounces "a smoking operation"
The sectors considered today "in tension" in France are the building, hotel, catering and commercial functions, as well as highly qualified professions such as computer engineering.
"We will build a new territorialized statistical tool for a real-time feedback of local needs, the current list dates from 11 years ago ...", told Reuters the deputy Republic on the march Florian Boudié. "The statistical centralization will be done next spring and finalized in July, and in the next parliamentary debate, in September 2020, the government will announce a quantified target."
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Republican MP Éric Ciotti, who advocates for quotas by nationalities and applying to family and student immigration, denounced "a smuggling operation". "We use words, but we devitalize them (...) It will have a derisory impact on the overall figures of immigration," he told reporters in the National Assembly.
For the elected National Rally Sébastien Chenu, "quotas, it is the response of the weak, (...) who agree to cope with the migratory submersion." "We are still selling the new Marie Curie arrived from the end of the world, I think we have enough people on our territory," added the MP.
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Among the other measures announced on Wednesday: the introduction of a waiting period of three months for access to universal health protection (Puma, former CMU) and the hardening of the right to asylum, were we told from parliamentary sources.
France is still trying to beef up its policy of welcoming refugees, in order to put an end to misuse of the right to asylum - like the "anomalies" of Georgia and Albania - and to erase its image as an "attractive" country.
With Reuters