France: Poland-Belarus migration crisis takes center stage in presidential debate
In a general atmosphere of firmness on immigration, the ecologist Yannick Jadot thinks on the contrary that Europe must urgently welcome "these refugees who are dying".
STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN AFP
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The European Union must toughen its sanctions against the Belarusian regime, which it accuses of orchestrating the arrival of migrants at the border with Poland.
In response, Warsaw has deployed 15,000 troops, erected a barbed wire fence and wants to build a wall.
This showdown between the European Union and Minsk is relaunching the debate on immigration in France, five months before the presidential election.
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It is not on this subject that they will differentiate themselves.
Sunday evening, during the debate between the five candidates for the internal primary The Republicans, everyone agrees not to let migrants pass.
The very existence of Europe is at stake, affirms Valérie Pécresse while her competitor Xavier Bertrand approves the decision of the Polish conservative government to build a wall on the border.
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Firmness, nothing but firmness also on the far right.
A spokesperson for Marine Le Pen said he was ready to let the migrants freeze to death, before back-pedaling.
"
Catastrophic
" and "
anxiety-provoking
"
debate
In this atmosphere, the statements Monday, November 15 of the ecologist Yannick Jadot detonate: he thinks that Europe must urgently welcome "
these refugees who are dying
".
The candidate La France Insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon believes for his part that it is up to Belarus to take care of them.
On the side of the presidential majority, we refuse to "
fall into the trap set
" by Belarus.
Some 2,000 migrants massed at the border, “
It's not a migratory crisis!
», Chokes a close friend of Emmanuel Macron.
He considers
the turn taken by the French debate to be
“
catastrophic
” and “
anxiety-provoking
”.
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