3
Oct
2023
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Corrupt large-scale sale of Schengen visas (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, corruption in the administration and fraud in residence permits are nuisances that must be tackled with the utmost firmness. You refer to the case of Poland, which you systematically have in the viewfinder, whatever it does. This questioning, which occurs opportunely two weeks before the Polish elections, openly targets the Polish government, which has nevertheless reacted firmly to repress a traffic whose real perpetrators were consular officials in ankle with private companies. The Renaissance Group is at the origin of this debate. So I invite the elected macronists to take a closer look at the French visa policy. In some countries, France delegates visa instruction to private bodies at the risk of a black market similar to the one we see in Poland. This happened last year in Morocco, but there the European Union did not launch any procedure or debate. It is true that immigration for you is not a problem, it is a project. What can we also say about the number of elected representatives and community activists who facilitate the production of attestations of convenience? All this demonstrates the abuse of Schengen visas used to cross Europe to only a handful of countries, always the same. For our part, we call for Schengen visas to be reserved for European nationals only and for internal borders to be re-established in other cases. This is how this type of traffic will be avoided.