The migration crisis in Belarus has animated the French political class for several days.
While Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Poutin “
agreed
” yesterday on a “
de-escalation
” of this crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland, the Polish government, which wants to prevent migrants from returning to its territory, announced the construction of a wall, starting in December.
An announcement that sparked many reactions in Europe and France.
To discover
Presidential 2022: where are the candidates in the polls?
This Tuesday, Clément Beaune said he was opposed to the construction of this wall.
“
I am for a Europe which has no naivety and which holds its borders and I plead so that in Poland, we deploy the border police to help.
(...) I am not for a Europe which bristles with barbed wire or is covered with walls
”, he pleaded, on France 2.
Some political figures in favor of the construction of the wall
Other political figures have already spoken out in favor of the construction of this wall. This is the case of Michel Barnier and Xavier Bertrand, two of the candidates for the Congress of the Republicans. “
We need to help the Polish government build a strong border
,” the former Brexit negotiator said. The president of Hauts-de-France has also positioned himself so that France "
helps the Poles to protect our border
" because for him, it "
is not the Polish border, but the border of Europe
".
The left is far from being on the same wavelength.
On LCI, this Tuesday, Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the Socialist Party considered that it was a “
shameful solution
” which referred “
to the cold war
”.
"
We are coming out of a century which was that of a wall that was knocked down in 89 and I am not sure that we have to start over,
" he considers.
An opinion shared by the ecological presidential candidate Yannick Jadot who denounced Monday, on France Inter, "
an incredible level of political collapse
".
/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/KMEYMJKESBAZBE4MRBAM4TGHIQ.jpg)
