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The hardening of French immigration policy, following Nicolas Sarkozy's appointment as Interior Minister in 2002 and his subsequent election as President in 2007
The hardening of French immigration policy, following Nicolas Sarkozy's appointment as Interior Minister in 2002 and his subsequent election as President in 2007, is not the exception in the European Union but the rule. Since the end of 2002, the 27 EU member countries have begun a process of "harmonizing" their immigration laws. This convergence process seems to be headed towards the German model, which is far from being the most progressive in Europe, and on some key points much more reactionary than French immigration law. As a matter of fact, a European directive ordering the confinement (for up to 18 months) and deportation of undocumented immigrants has recently been adopted in order to promote an alignment with the immigration laws currently applied in Germany.
Levelling or lowering?
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