Mano a mano in perspective on immigration between macronie and the right, in France? The Minister of the Interior is reaching out to the Les Républicains party to toughen the laws on migratory flows. ” Chick, let’s work together! “, says Gérald Darmanin, on “the front page” of Parisian Sundayin response to the radical proposals on immigration that this right-wing party presented last Sunday in The Sunday Journal.
Among other things, that providing for the possibility of derogating from the Treaties and from European law in the Constitution. ” Everyone must take a step (…) The LR would absolutely like us to table a new piece of legislation together? We are ready for it if it is discussed with centrists and radicals said the Minister of the Interior this morning in The Parisian Sunday.
Gérald Darmanin thus says he is open to ” visa conditioning “, to the “ modulation of development aid » of the countries concerned in the implementation of consular laissez-passer; without omitting the question of unaccompanied minors or that of applications for residence permits. But freeing oneself from the European treaties would constitute ” a migratory Frexit “, objects the minister, also rejecting the proposal of the LRs for asylum requests to be formulated outside the territory, a measure “ inapplicable “, according to him, ” except outside the Geneva Convention of 1951 “. A ” let’s sit down and talk » which would mark a turning point in the macronie, deprived of an absolute majority in the National Assembly.
Outside the alliance, no salvation on the left
On the left, we are feverishly preparing for the next European elections. In France, the Nupes, the left alliance, arithmetically, would have a card to play. As the weekly points out Marianne, on the strength of two recent Ifop polls, three left-wing sympathizers out of four are all the more in favor of a single list for the left in the European elections since, in the event of a single list, the left would manage to climb to the same floor as the National Rally, with 26% of the voting intentions. However, the four separate left-wing parties would get 35% of the votes in total.
But that’s on paper. In the facts, Marianne don’t be fooled. ” What if the left made fun of us? “, pretends to wonder this magazine. “ Behind the political reasoning, each party defends above all its own interests and no one really believes in the constitution of an alliance within a year. », regrets Marianne.
As this weekly underlines, the European elections are generally favorable to environmentalists, who therefore intend to participate in them without their allies from the Nupes in order to then be able to find themselves in a better position “ so that the distribution of constituencies in the next legislative elections is more favorable to them “.
Small murders between comrades
In the Socialist Party, the deal is different. His right wing, led by Nicolas Mayer Rossignol, judges the first secretary (Olivier Faure) too subservient to the Insoumis “, REMARK Mariannewhile La France insoumise, by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, preaches for a single Nupes list, in order to “ pave the way for an insubordinate candidacy representing the entire left in the presidential election of 2027, the only decisive deadline “, explains again Marianne.
“Che” blames Europe for the war in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine, and a surprising voice this week in the press; that of Jean-Pierre Chevènement. Former Minister of Defense, this left-wing intellectual, in an interview with the weekly Point, rightly points to Europe’s responsibility in the genesis of this war. On the occasion of the release of a book entitled Remaking France (Éditions Bouquins), Jean-Pierre Chevènement told this newspaper that, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States, via the “orange revolution”, wanted ” using Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia “. Admittedly, underlines the one that his comrades in the socialist party used to call ” Che “, the Europeans did not then nourish this intention, but the European Union would not have, according to him, ” politically managed » the 2008 Eastern Partnership, which aimed to strengthen Europe’s ties with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus. ” The then President of the European Commission, Mr Barroso, bears a heavy responsibility for the slippage that occurred in 2013-2014, considers Jean-Pierre Chevènement in Point. This was perfectly avoidable if these two trade liberalization projects had been thought out together. Above all, if we had established neutrality for Ukraine, between Europe and Russia “. For the former Minister of Defence, there is no doubt, “ this aggression threw Europe into the arms of the United States, and Russia now finds itself at the mercy of China. Beautiful result from the point of view of the independence of Europe! “, he says to the Point.