Guest of LCI on Sunday, Éric Lombard said that he did not share the vision of immigration to the Minister of the Interior who said that “immigration is not a chance for France”. According to him, it is necessary to “fill the jobs in companies, factories, in the hospital”.
A “new polyphony” to the government of François Bayrou? The Minister of Economy and Finance, Éric Lombard, assured this Sunday, January 26 on the LCI that France “needs immigration to work, the entrepreneurs wish, and, moreover it is done”, adding That France must “of course” remain an economic country of immigration.
Declarations that oppose those of his colleague to the government, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, who wishes to tighten the regularization criteria and who estimated at the end of October that “immigration is not a chance for France” .
“We can have different appreciations inside a government (…) This is not my vision of immigration,” replied Éric Lombard.
“We need immigration to fill the jobs in companies, factories, in the hospital,” said the minister.
“Favorable to the idea of finding the ways and means of working more”
Eric Lombard also considered that it was necessary to tackle “now” to the reduction of health spending, and “first, the expenditure of drugs”. He noted “that we are the first consumer in France of antidepressants”.
-“Being 100%reimbursed when you have higher income from average, is it really essential?” He wondered. He noted that the idea of working one more day a year for free to finance social spending “received a fairly fresh reception” from many political parties. But it remains “favorable to the idea of finding the ways and means of working more”.
On pensions, he judges that “capitalization is a very good solution that exists for the public service”, but will undoubtedly be “a central element of the” current partners who try to improve the reform of 2023, at constant cost, because “it takes a long time to produce effects”.
He thinks that we will not be able to bring everyone back to 62 years “, instead of 64, but that it is” legitimate “that people” who make a painful job and have a long career because they have Begun early left earlier “.
“If we allow for reasons of national solidarity to this or that employee to stop earlier, we must find those who agree to work longer,” he slipped.
