On this second day of the States General of the Right opposition on immigration organized by Nicolas Sarkozy and Alain Madelin in Villepin, the main leaders of the Right including Valery Giscard d'Estaing, president of the UDF and Jacques Chirac, President of the RPR agreed that immigration must be stopped, that the regulation of the right of asylum must be transformed, but "the requirement of a differentiation between French and foreigners" proposed by Jacques Chirac provokes the split with the centrist Bernard Stasi accusing the opposition of stealing on the lands of the National Front. Excerpt from the speech of Jacques Chirac.
The political parties of the Right opposition were gathered in Villepinte for the States General on immigration and racism before being received by the Prime Minister Michel Rocard: a common line was arrested on immigration, the reform of the right of asylum and the nationality code but dissensions appeared with the party of the Centre of Bernard Stasi on the question of the national preference for social benefits.
Reaction of the spokesman of the PS, Jean Jack Queyranne on the common immigration policy adopted by the different tendencies of the republican opposition at the convention of their estates general this weekend in Villepinte. Jean Jack QUEYRANNE declares that the Right thus strengthens the National Front: "The opposition went hunting on the lands of Jean Marie LE PEN while he was in Nice".
The main right-wing opposition parties, UDF, PR, RPR and CNI met in Villepinte in the States General to discuss the problem of immigration and racism in France in reaction to the score obtained by the National Front in the 1989 European elections and its recovery of the xenophobic vote. Excerpts from the speech of François Léotard, President of the PR, Republican Party, Yvon Briant, President of the CNI, Centre national des Indépendants, Alain Juppé, RPR, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the UDF
Debate on immigration in the National Assembly. Excerpt from the speech of Interior Minister Charles PASQUA "If the government did not act ... The country could be set on fire by an outbreak of xenophobia...". Excerpt from the speech of Jean-Marie LE PEN fearing that France would become Lebanon: "Twenty years ago, Lebanon was considered as Switzerland. We let many foreigners in. If ever this government had put the country in such danger that it would become Lebanon, it would be cursed." Intervention by Georgina DUFOIX in the tribune about the delinquency attributed to immigrants: "does this justify that the status of the entire foreign community living in France is questioned?"
Report after the adoption in the Assembly of the bill (Bonnet) concerning foreign workers. The text proposes to more strictly control the entry of foreigners in France, to prosecute people in an irregular situation and to increase the number of deportations. Commentary on factual images.
Report devoted to the reluctance of some LREM deputies regarding the tightening of the migration policy. In Cherbourg, Sonia KRIMI, LREM deputy of the Channel, explains that she wants a more humanistic vision on immigration and the reception of refugees. Commentary on factual images alternating with interviews with Sonia KRIMI, LREM MP of the Channel, and Jean-Michel CLEMENT, LREM MP of Vienna.
Statement by Nicolas SARKOZY at the exit of the Council of Minister where he presented his bill on immigration "It is time for the French to have the right to the debate on immigration which they have been deprived of for so many years ... to get out of the dialogue of the deaf of two extremes, immigration Zero or the refusal of any control. France must master the entries in its territory." Reactions of Jean-Christophe LAGARDE (UDF) and Jean-Marc AYRAULT (PS).
Interview with Lionel STOLERU, Secretary of State for the Condition of Manual Workers, estimating that in the next 15 years there would be a steady decrease of foreign labour in France due to economic conditions, The Commission’s proposal for a Council Directive on the approximation of the laws of the Member States of the European Union.
Ahead of the Council of Ministers, Dominique de Villepin presented this morning his plan to combat illegal immigration. There is no question of regularizing, as the Spaniards do, for example."On the contrary, it would create a call for air," said the Minister of the Interior. The time is ripe for firmness.
101 illegal Malian immigrants were deported to Bamako in accordance with the Pasqua law on the conditions of entry and residence of foreigners in France, adopted on 9 September 1986. Commentary on factual images.
Report on the new immigration policy of the Chirac government defined in the Council of Ministers, July 3, 1974. Commentary on factual images and interview with André POSTEL VINAY, Secretary of State for Immigration, who speaks about the need to limit the entry of foreign workers according to the possibilities of reception and employment.
Presentation of the various provisions to regulate immigration proposed in the Council of Ministers by the Minister of the Interior Charles PASQUA. Extract from the press conference of Nicolas SARKOZY, spokesman of the Balladur government: "This bill constitutes for the government an essential element of the control of migratory flows, of the fight against illegal immigration."
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