Michel Barnier below double strain from his camp and the RN on immigration | EUROtoday

THE “step by step” moderately than “the bluff”On the problem of migration, as on every little thing else, Michel Barnier is taking part in the quiet recreation, promising to take care of this passionate topic. “with rigor and tenacity”, syears to disclose its playing cards. Is a devoted ministry wanted, on the danger of recalling the time of the controversies of the “Ministry of Immigration and National Identity” arrange below Nicolas Sarkozy after his election in 2007? “You will see”the previous European Commissioner evaded questioning on Thursday, September 12, refusing to straight deny the data from Franceinfo, revealed three days earlier.

Entirely dedicated to his delicate mission of forming a authorities able to resisting a movement of censure, the tenant of Matignon tries to keep away from topics of political rigidity. Placed “under surveillance” of the National Rally (RN), within the phrases of the chief of the Le Pen celebration, Jordan Bardella, the consultant of the Republicans (LR) is aware of that the migration subject is, after the budgetary topic, on the high of the pile of his priorities. “No political force can ignore this issue”judges Frédéric Dabi, president of the Ifop polling institute, describing an opinion anxious, he says, on the concept of ​​a State dropping management of migratory flows.

The Prime Minister, who intends to embody a “breakup” with the road of Emmanuel Macron, accused of naivety by the RN, seeks to impose his type, whereas in Europe, taboos are falling. Germany led by a social democratic chancellor has determined to reinstate border controls for six months. Across the Channel, the Labour Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, intends to attract inspiration from the coverage of the far-right chief, Giorgia Meloni, who made the migrant a sufferer “desperate” exterior powers.

LR's divisive line

To strategy this topic, a marker of a division of waters between left and proper, the tenant of Matignon is in search of the fitting tone. But for the second he’s content material to reward the “firmness” and the“humanism”a traditional diptych claimed by all governments. “He wants practical solutions, to surround himself with professionals on this sensitive subject, not ideologues”we’re advised on Rue de Varenne in a reference to Patrick Buisson, the previous advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy, defender of a “uninhibited right”, on the origin of the creation of the Ministry of Immigration and National Identity. “There are thoughts on measures and solutions on this extremely important subject for the French”helps an advisor to the Prime Minister specifying that “It's not a title people expect”.

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