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Ulrich, Maurice
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Solidarity is not a crime
Thousands of people protested in France on Wednesday against a law criminalising help for migrants without residence permits. In its leading article the left-wing newspaper L'Humanité criticises the French government's immigration policy: "The topic of immigration is sometimes, in fact often, linked to that of domestic security. And for years it has been exploited for political purposes. Some, like the current president of the republic [Nicolas Sarkozy], are even encroaching on the intellectual terrain of the [extreme right-wing] Front National. Now the topic is being used to undermine the values which lie at the heart of the republic. President Sarkozy is not only seeking to destroy the French social model ... He is also tossing overboard our ethical model and the moral imperatives based on equality, fraternity and help to the needy, whatever their nationality, their skin colour or whether they're here legally or not."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Migration, » France
The Belgian far right
The editorialist Maurice Ulrich notes that Vlaams Belang has again progressed with the latest municipal elections in Belgium. "This result demonstrates the gravity of the political crisis that is striking Europe today. Belgium is not an isolated case, far from it. .. The European map of the populist right-wing, whatever their minor differences, places them above 10% in Norway, Denmark, Austria, Holland and Northern Italy. Above 20% in Switzerland. In most cases it is mixed up with the far-right. Eastern Europe is no exception. ... It is the absence of perspectives, of real alternatives to the politics in practice, the impression that left and right are alike, that make it easy for demagogues, feed the far-right, populism and hatred in France as in Belgium, as in Europe."
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