Immigration law: "Hope or chimera of a give-and-take?"

You renounce your constitutional revision, we renounce our residence permit. This "deal" is not yet on the table and the new exchanges between Gérald Darmanin and Les Républicains are just beginning, but the most optimistic want to believe in a possible convergence between the government and the right.

This prospect may seem illusory in view of the hardening debate on the issue. After much back and forth on the method and timetable, the executive confirmed its desire for a "balanced" text including the creation of an additional residence permit for so-called "tension" professions; A dirimant provision for the right. And with its proposal to amend the constitution in order to restore the primacy of national law over European law, LR is attacking one of the fundamentals of Macronism. Veto on the one hand, non possumus on the other: never has incompatibility seemed so total.

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The failure is therefore announced - or rather confirmed - unless a major concession is made...

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