France will propose a referendum on immigration in September 2022

This may include adverts from us and 3 rd parties based on our understanding. The heavy pro-European Union supporter was the European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom from 2019 until 2021, leading tense and often bitter Brexit negotiations as Britain departed the bloc. In August, Michel Barnier announced his candidacy for President of France in the 2022 presidential election and is currently running for the Republican nomination. During the two year period negotiating Brexit for the EU, Mr Barnier was well known for strongly defending the bloc s principle of freedom of movement.

But he raised several eyebrows in Brussels with repeated calls for a referendum on bringing in a five-year moratorium on immigration to France from outside the EU. Mr Barnier said: We will propose a referendum on immigration in September 2022. Separately, the EU's former chief Brexit negotiator also insisted that France must regain its legal sovereignty in order to not be subject to the judgments of the European Court of Justice ECJ and the European Court of Human Rights. But now he has admitted that the immigration policy currently in place in France is simply not working, adding he would like to review all the procedures, the granting of residence permits which are misused or abused, expulsions which are not carried out Mr Barnier said during an interview with CNEWS: The immigration policy does not work in France. It is to the detriment of the unity of our country, the serenity of our country and at the same time to the detriment of the people who come to us and are poorly received; sometimes we see it in the Mediterranean in an undignified and dangerous way, he said. I would like us to recreate the conditions to reach a consensus on this issue. To review all the procedures, the granting of residence permits which are misused or abused, expulsions which are not carried out. READ MORE: EU cracks deepen as four countries join Spain s energy revolt.

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