France dreams of being a land of welcome, but it no longer has the means. The extension of the field of asylum is taking on such proportions that it increasingly resembles an enforceable right to settle here.

In 2015, in the midst of the refugee crisis, Hubert Védrine already sounded the alarm: "If the right of Asylum is wrongly used... this old and beautiful Western idea has gone crazy" This article is for subscribers only. You still have 53% to discover.