EMPLOYMENT – While Bruno Retailleau wants to limit regularizations, Éric Lombard judges that France “needs labor immigration”
Issues related to immigration divide even within the government. On Sunday, the Minister of Economy and Finance estimated that France must “of course” remain a country of immigration.
“We need work immigration, entrepreneurs want it, and, moreover, it is happening,” noted Éric Lombard on LCI.
“Different assessments” in government
When asked if, economically, France should remain a country of immigration, Éric Lombard replied: “But of course”. And while the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, who wishes to tighten the regularization criteria, believes that “immigration is not an opportunity for France”, his colleague from Bercy retorted: “We may have to inside a government different assessments […] This is not my vision of immigration.” “We need immigration to fill jobs in businesses, factories, and hospitals,” argued the minister.
Éric Lombard also considered that it was necessary to tackle “now” the reduction of health expenditure, and “first, the expenditure on medicines”. He noted “that we are the leading consumer in France of antidepressants”. “Being 100% reimbursed, when you have above-average income, is it really essential? “, he asked himself.
-The minister further noted that the idea of working one more day per year for free to finance social spending “received support(…)
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