With his proposal for a "three-year moratorium on legal immigration," France's Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin has once again sharply shifted the country's political debate to the right. The demand not only marks a rhetorical escalation in the French migration discourse but also the beginning of a strategic realignment of conservative forces ahead of the 2027 presidential election. In an interview, Darmanin stated that France has "reached the limits of its capacity for integration and assimilation." With this, he adopts terms that for a long time were primarily reserved for the ...
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