Macron introduces quotas on immigration

The French Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, yesterday presented the first tangible measures for a more rigid immigration policy. You've found a "good balance", says Philippe, the government will stay "true to its values" and "soothes at the same time the citizens", without "the populism to a standstill".

As the biggest shift in immigration policy, the government praises migrants for the introduction of quotas for the Economy. An annually fixed number of foreigners who come for a Job, to France, to help the immigration to a greater extent on the needs of the country. The rates on the canadian model are a political concession from the President of France, Emmanuel Macron – particularly to the conservative Opposition, which calls for many years such a System.

France's labour market is characterised by a Paradox: on the one Hand, the unemployment rate is 8.5 percent. On the other hand, hundreds of thousands of positions could not be filled. The influx of a year, 33'000 officially recorded people faces, who come to Work in France. This Form of economic migration makes up only 13 percent of the regular immigration.

The left-wing party in France Insoumise geisselte the distinction of good and bad immigration, which was associated with the quotas.

Specifically, the promised new feature is now especially that, in cooperation with the social partners, the need for foreign labour to industries and regions is captured. The national Assembly shall then decide, annually, as many foreign workers allowed into the country for the first time for the year 2021.

easier access to Jobs in France, is politically highly sensitive. Minister of labour Muriel Pénicaud hastened to explain on Wednesday, the training of the many unemployed in the country have priority in the solution of the problems in the labour market. According to her, the absolute number of granted work is not on the rise visa at all. Beyond the political commitment to a quota system, the Reform of France's economy brings no fundamental change. Other forms of immigration, especially family reunification should not be limited by quotas, the government.

While the employers ' federations praised the quota system as a simplification, joined in the Opposition to criticism. The conservative Republicans who are actually in favour of quotas, tended to view the Reform as a ploy, in order of the alleged mass immigration into the social systems distract. The left party France Insoumise geisselte the distinction of good and bad immigration, which was associated with the quotas.

"treatment tourism"

What he means by bad immigration, outline Macron in an Interview with the right national sheet Valeurs Actuelles. France was "too attractive" to immigrants. Asylum seekers from Georgia and Albania, came to the "treatment tourism", the President. In the future, asylum seekers will have until three months after your application have the right to have medical examinations Finance. In an interview with Valeurs Actuelles Macron people who help Refugees called "Droit-de-l'hommistes" – a similar term such as "do-gooder". In the past two and a half years, Macron has taken a clear turn to the Right in the measurement of Migration. He is praised as a presidential candidate, the relatively liberal asylum policy of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, as a humanitarian and role model, he emphasizes that France must "guard against waves of immigration".

Macrons asylum initiative, many French commentators as an early Phase of the presidential election campaign in 2022. It is already clear that Macron as his Challenger by 2017, the radical right-wing Marine Le Pen, set on a new edition of their duel. Immigration polemics belongs to the special areas of Le pen and the Rassemblement National. Macron continued migration policy a month ago with the announcement on the Agenda, we should not leave it to the nationalists in this field.

Created: 06.11.2019, 20:09 PM