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Suspension of family reunification: Éric Ciotti calls on France to follow up on Austria

Austria is emulated. The country has announced its intention to end the family reunification of refugees this Wednesday, March 26. An unprecedented measure in Europe, which some would like to apply in France … starting with Eric Ciotti. “Austria has the courage to suspend family reunification while our migratory reception capacities are very widely saturated in Europe!,, praised the boss of UDR on X. What does the French government expect to end the family reunification in turn? »»

“Faced with migratory submersion, France must do the same,, for his part launched the deputy for the National Rally Frédéric Falcon. This is exactly what Marine Le Pen offers For years “he recalled. “” Before sinking Austria becomes the first EU country to suspend family reunificationhas further applauded his counterpart from Ain Jérôme Buisson. During this time France looks at its health system collapsed, its prisons filling up, its schools tumble, its insecurity increase, its secularism attacked, its identity fade. »»

Migration assault since 2015

This decision by Austria comes when several European countries choose to tighten their migration policy. At the end of September, the Nationalist Party FPö won the legislative elections. In power since early March alongside the Social Democrats and Liberals, the Conservative Chancellor, Christian Stocker, must thus maintain the pressure in the face of migratory flows.

Since the 2015 migration crisis, and the massive arrival of refugees mainly from Syria, the country has noted “A clear increase” arrivals of family members of people who obtained asylum or having benefited from protection due to the dangerousness of their country of origin. In 2023, their number was nearly 9,300 against 7,800 the previous year in this state with 9.2 million inhabitants.