Christian ESTROSI will submit several amendments* this Friday to the National Assembly, already cosigned by more than forty parliamentarians since Monday, as part of the bill on immigration, integration, and nationality.
We can only take note of and appreciate Christian Estrosi’s quick reaction to a problem that promises to be thorny.
But any tactic separated from a strategy has the flaw and limitation of having a short-sighted view. Today we speak of Tunisia because it is current. But tomorrow or the day after?
Because it is this continent that we need to talk about and the fact that demographic projections tell us that by 2050, Africans will make up 1/5 of the world population (estimated at 9.2 billion people). However, shouldn’t we think as much of our children and grandchildren as of ourselves?
Without wanting to pose as a scholar, it is not difficult to foresee that without policies of democratization, economic development, and the distribution of wealth coordinated by international bodies (those Hegel called “external geographical conditions”), the rules that Mr. Estrosi (in the “bread and butter” version as the Americans say) wants to champion are likely to have only a placebo effect.
Action is always a step forward as long as it is in the right direction. Otherwise, action rhymes with confusion, whereas at this moment, what is needed is insight. And first of all, are we sure that the immigrants will suffice with the symbolic effect of Marianne?
Wouldn’t it be better to apply some principles of what Jacques Maritain, a Catholic philosopher, wrote in 1936 in “Integral Humanism”?
Is Mr. Estrosi’s recent visit to the Pope already in the archives?
