In France, senate president proposes constitutional reform to allow referendum on immigration

Real immigration policy cannot be achieved without reform of the French Constitution, President of the French Senate Gérard Larcher (Les Républicains) told Le Parisien on [2 September]. While the government is preparing a law on immigration, the right-wing opposition is keeping up the pressure on a subject close to its heart: “Without constitutional reform, there will be no real migration policy and therefore no successful integration policy,” said Larcher. This proposal aims to organise a major referendum on immigration, as the right and the far-right (Rassemblement National) have been requesting for several months. [...] The Republicans also intend to enshrine in the Constitution the possibility of “derogating from the primacy of treaties and European law […] when ‘the fundamental interests of the Nation’ are at stake”.
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