France and President Macron’s party are once again in a political crisis after the approval of the new bill that tightens the country’s immigration policy. Twenty MPs of the faction voted against the bill and seventeen abstained, while Marine Le Pen applauded the result of the vote.

“The Macron government is selling its soul» is the title of her article Süddeutsche Zeitungwith the Munich newspaper stressing that after the vote in the French National Assembly “macronism is dead».

“Macronism has meant for many French people this highly specific and at the same time undefined path to the center, which President Macron has carved out. […] But the new immigration law that Macron absolutely wanted to pass this year and really at all costs is a tipping point – such a blatant concession to the right that it’s unlikely Macron will be able to get the moderate left on board again. of.

[…] Now Marine Le Pen is triumphant: the politician that Macron had bluntly promised to stop, which was also the reason why the French president was elected twice. The head of the far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) described the bill as an “ideological victory”. And he’s right.”

She also agrees with this Tageszeitung, adding that after the vote on the bill “there is de facto a political agreement that extends from the center of Macron, to the bourgeois right, to the Lepenists. And nothing prevents the recurrence of this alliance, nothing guarantees that no such alliance will exercise power in the future. What is the value of the usual promises that there will never be a government with the RN?

The fact that Macron allowed this to happen, or even orchestrated it behind the scenes, is a manifestation of a opportunism without limits and principles. In 2017 and 2022 Macron (with many votes from the left) was elected and re-elected because he promised to fight the far right and prevent it from taking power. But now he is the one who opens the door for her. And this at the risk of paying the approval of the legislative reform, which he demanded at all costs, with an internal split among the Macronists”.

“The asylum agreement is a historic success”

The E.U. reached an agreement on the reform of the asylum system, which focuses on tightening and speeding up procedures at the borders, also providing for the first time a duty of solidarity between member states.

At Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung we read: “If finally the asylum compromise […] enacted into law, it will fall far short of closing the continent’s borders. In essence, Europe is moving away from what has been proven many times statistically as illusionthat is, everyone who submits here asylum applicationis in need of protection”.

According to the Frankfurt newspaper, the organizations that criticize the compromise as a blow to human rights are wrong: “There is nothing humanitarian about Europe watching for years how criminal gangs of smugglers make money, luring migrants into life-threatening situations trips”. However, “the new system will only work if the countries on the external borders implement it, as well as if the cooperation with the countries of origin and transit flourishes. And in these the E.E. he hasn’t done well so far.”

On her part, Süddeutsche Zeitung characterizes the agreement as “historic success“, as it is, among other things, a means of defense against the right. “Even today there are majorities only in favor of a restrictive refugee policy and not in favor of a liberal one. The European Parliament has always performed a corrective function. But in next year’s European elections, the majorities will move there to the right as well”, comments the Munich newspaper, estimating that then “a more humanitarian asylum bill would really have no chance”.