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“We need a European migration policy. It is through Europe that we will build our responsibility, including by fulfilling our obligations”, said the environmental candidate for the presidential election.
It is a theme that comes up with every election campaign. Guest of the “8:22 pm” of France 2, the candidate of Europe Ecology – The Greens in the presidential election, Yannick Jadot, raised the question of immigration. But the words he used contrast with the speech made in recent weeks by right-wing candidates. “I do not see a problem with immigration in France today”, noted the MEP.
“We have the refugees”, including the reception “is part of our duty of humanity. It is part of our obligations under European law and under international law”, he said on the set of France 2.
“We need a European migration policy. It is through Europe that we will build our responsibility, including by fulfilling our obligations”, he added, without naming it the announcement of the Polish government to start the construction of a wall on the border with Belarus, to prevent the passage of migrants. Either methods “of dictator: walls, barbed wire, watchtowers.”
He also mentioned the case of family reunification. “When I hear the right say: we are going to halve family reunification. What does that mean?”, he said, recalling that was concerned “close family”. “If we listen to the Republicans, do we take one in three children?”, he asked. “This is completely absurd.”
Still as an example, the environmental candidate cited “the 35,000 migrant doctors who run the public hospital,” as well as the 40,000 nurses. ”“ What do we do? Shall we send them back? In this situation ?”, he asked again, alluding to the lack of hospital staff as the health crisis linked to Covid-19 continues.