All week, La Loupe reviews all the successful reforms among our neighbors, from which France could draw inspiration. In this latest episode, we look at the migration system in Denmark, with Axel Gyldén, journalist in the World department of L’Express.
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Charlotte Baris: For this last episode of our series on reforms that work abroad, we could have gone to see what is being done in Italy regarding immigration. Because since the arrival of Giorgia Meloni at the head of government in 2022, Italians, on the front line facing migratory waves, have taken drastic measures: strengthening penalties for smugglers, facilitating pushbacks, restricting the right to work for certain migrants, and supervision of the activity of rescue NGOs.
All this is also accompanied by agreements with several countries. First, those from which a large part of the immigration comes, located on the edge of the Mediterranean. This cooperation should make it easier to return illegal immigrants. But also with Albania: detention centers, governed by Italian law, have been built there and it is there that certain asylum requests can be processed.
A real outsourcing policy which already seems to deter crossings: after a record 2023, migrant arrivals in Italy fell by more than 60% over the first 8 months of this year. However, these Italian migration reforms are criticized. Tunisia, for example, does not respect human rights, shipments to detention centers in Albania have been rejected by the courts, and above all they are very expensive. Italy spent 65 million euros on their construction, and their operation is expected to cost 160 million per year.
Methods already swept aside by the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier. But France is perhaps looking at what is being done in another of our neighbors, in the north of Europe.
To go further
Immigration in Europe: faced with falling taboos, it is urgent to act collectively
Immigration: between Bruno Retailleau and the Constitutional Council, a smell of a return match
In Sweden, the pension reform that France could apply
In Portugal, the education reform that could inspire France