In the press - Immigration law: "A text that will aggravate the exodus of African doctors"

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On the front page of the press, the presentation, yesterday, in France, of the immigration bill.

A text already criticized by the right and the left.

Currently in the midst of a battle over pension reform, the government is facing a "new puzzle", according to

.

The newspaper reports the criticisms of the Republicans, who see in the bill defended by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, "a dangerous open door to massive regularizations and therefore an inevitable call for migratory air".

On the left,

accuses the executive of trying to "sort out the good and the bad foreigners" and relays the alert launched by associations helping migrants on "the need (for permanent residence permits, not subject to the vagaries of the economy (or to a list of jobs with variable geometry), and also to the risk of departing from the "logic of social inclusion" of migrants.

The text of the government plans in particular to facilitate the expulsions of undocumented and the creation of a residence permit for the trades known as “in tension”.

The tightening of the asylum policy and the plan to increase the number of obligations to leave the territory, the "OQTFs", are of concern to associations helping asylum seekers, who they believe risk finding themselves, more and more often, both “without legal existence and without rights”, in detention centres.

cites the cases of undocumented Afghans, Somalis, Sudanese and Bangladeshis, regularly placed in detention, even though they are not deportable, because of the situation in their country, which amounts to a kind of double punishment for these applicants asylum, already subjected to the trauma of war and exile.

The creation of a residence permit for professions "under pressure"

in particular for foreign doctors

also causes concern

in particular in Africa, where

fears a "(even more

massive exodus of doctors"

recalls that French-speaking Africa is the second provider of foreign practitioners in France, after the European Union

According to the Council of the Order of Physicians

French, three quarters of the 2,000 practitioners to have passed the knowledge verification tests in 2022

from the Maghreb, half of them from Algeria

Also in French news is the visit to Paris from today of Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu.

For the issues of this visit, I invite you to consult

, which indicates that "the Iranian question should largely dominate the discussions" of Benjamin Netanyahu with Emmanuel Macron.

According to our colleagues, the Jewish state is currently trying to form “a military coalition, in particular with the Western powers, to strike at the Iranian regime”, which it fears will acquire atomic weapons.

explains that Paris and Washington initially rejected this option, and preferred the diplomatic solution but that the situation finally "evolved", because "the Iranian nuclear agreement seems definitively compromised", and because Israel "made an effort to get closer to the West, in the Ukrainian file”, and now plans to support kyiv militarily against Moscow”.

Also in this case,

announces, exclusively, that the French special forces seized, on January 15, a shipment of Iranian arms and ammunition, intended for the Yemeni rebels, within the framework, precisely, of this "effort to contain Tehran" and "enforce the United Nations arms embargo on the Houthis in Yemen".

In the diplomatic section, also, the first summit, for eight years… between Spain and Morocco, after the acceptance, controversial, by Madrid, of the Moroccan policy in Western Sahara.

Announced as "historic", the visit with great fanfare by the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez and a dozen ministers to Rabat, is already experiencing a first hiccup, at least from the point of view of the Spanish press, and in particular of the very right-handed

, who is not angry with the fact that King Mohammed VI did not consider it necessary to welcome Pedro Sanchez in person, postponing this meeting to a later date, during a simple telephone conversation yesterday.

"Mohammed VI pays little heed to the concessions made by Pedro Sanchez and plants him in Rabat", fumes the newspaper.

The Moroccan press seems to have nothing to say about this.

"The Morocco-Spain economic forum (which was) held in Rabat was an opportunity to expose all the potential that still remains to be developed to improve cooperation between the two countries and to open a new era in their relations”, reports

, without further comment.

Speaking of controversy, I suggest you take a look at Courrier International, which reports on the Portuguese media's turmoil over the cost of the future World Youth Days, WYD, scheduled for next summer in Lisbon.

The cost of the work, 160 million euros, is debated, in particular the approximately 5 million allocated by the town hall for the construction of a gigantic altar for the closing mass.

Expenses that go badly in a country in the midst of a crisis, where the money, it seems, is lacking “to pay decent salaries to doctors, teachers, or school life auxiliaries”.

“Is it really very Catholic?” asks the Portuguese press, taken up by

.

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