The reform of the Constitution wanted by LR to toughen France’s immigration policy is “unthinkable”, said Monday the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, who will start discussions with Gérard Darmanin around a hypothetical bill.
The reform of the Constitution wanted by LR to toughen France’s immigration policy is “unthinkable”, said Monday the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, who will start discussions with Gérard Darmanin around a hypothetical bill. “It’s the opposite of European construction and it obviously requires a constitutional revision, something quite impossible in my eyes, especially in this sense, and which would also single out and stigmatize France’s position within the Union. European,” said the minister when questioned on franceinfo.
Olivier Dussopt, responsible for leading discussions with his Interior counterpart on a bill dedicated to immigration which has been the subject of a waltz of hesitation from the executive for weeks, closes the door to one shock proposals from LR unveiled this weekend in terms of migration. Essential partner of a possible parliamentary compromise on the future text of the government, the party of Eric Ciotti raises the stakes by asking in particular for a reform of the Constitution which in migration matters, would allow France to leave the European treaties.
“The fundamental interests of the Nation are at stake”
The Republicans intend to include in the Constitution “the possibility of derogating from the primacy of treaties and European law (…) when ‘the fundamental interests of the Nation’ are at stake”, considering that immigration falls into this box . LR also intends to “elevate the principle of assimilation to constitutional rank”. If this “perspective is not achievable”, Olivier Dussopt wants to believe in a compromise that is always possible.
“Let’s leave the necessary time for this discussion (with the parties and political groups) that we will start in the coming days,” he commented on franceinfo. The fact remains that on the project of regularizations on the so-called “in tension” professions, one of the pillars of the future bill, the Minister of Labor reaffirms, unlike the LRs, that it is not a question of a “call for air”.