Close national borders or leave them open?
The Covid-19 epidemic and the terrorist threat have forced the political class to update their positions, bringing to the fore a theme that has become essential for the presidential election.
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Until then the debate was clear, in the service of the binary opposition between "closure" and "opening".
Marine Le Pen on the one hand, opponent of
“massive immigration”
;
Emmanuel Macron on the other hand, a supporter of the free movement of people.
Border control?
"It's ridiculous,"
the candidate Macron replied in April 2017, with irony:
"Are we going to put an orderly for each square meter of the border we have with all the member countries of the European Union?"
In less than four years, the president has resolved to change his speech, jostled by two successive events.
First, the terrorist attacks committed in September in Paris, then in November in Nice and Vienna.
Perpetrated by migrants, they pushed the chief
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