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'Uncontrolled immigration, a political bombshell'

12/25/2023, 6:31:52 PM

Highlights: 'Uncontrolled immigration, a political bombshell' - Le Figaro. Populist and nationalist candidates are surfing on the resentment of the disadvantaged and cultural anxiety born of the failure of integration. Combined with soaring inflation and a widespread housing crisis, it is aPolitical bombshell in Europe.Voters have been asking the "traditional" political class to tackle the problem for ages. They protest against the inability of the authorities to control and regulate the phenomenon, to choose who to take in and how.


LE FIGARO EDITORIAL - All over Europe, populist and nationalist candidates are surfing on the resentment of the disadvantaged and the cultural anxiety born of the failure of integration.

The victory of Giorgia Meloni in Italy and that of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, the violent riots in Ireland at the end of November, the gang war that bloodied Sweden, the irruption of the AfD as the second political force in Germany, the FPÖ favourite in the next elections in Austria, like the National Rally in France... All these phenomena have one explanation in common: uncontrolled immigration, both in its volume and in its consequences. Combined with soaring inflation and a widespread housing crisis, it is a political bombshell in Europe.

Voters have been asking the "traditional" political class to tackle the problem for ages. Citizens are not necessarily against the idea of temporarily hosting 4.2 million Ukrainians fleeing the war, or even a few tens of thousands of Afghan women oppressed by the Taliban. They protest against the inability of the authorities to control and regulate the phenomenon, to choose...

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