France's immigration law: when 'Macronism' rhymes with the far-right
France’s new legislation “to control immigration”, approved by a vote in parliament on Tuesday, transforms the xenophobic programme of the far-right into law, making the foreigner a public enemy and attacking the universal principle of the equality of rights, argues Mediapart publishing editor Edwy Plenel in this op-ed article. History, he writes, will record that the person responsible for this disgrace is the very president who was elected by voters who took to the urns to prevent his far-right rival from gaining power.
“Nothing“Nothing, nothing must be given up.” Those were the closing words of a speech pronounced on December 10th marking the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed in Paris in 1948 during the first general assembly of the United Nations. During that speech earlier this month, the orator lauded the universality of laws and the equality of human beings, and this with no distinction made of origin, condition, beliefs, appearance or place of birth, sex or gender.
