Le Pen called on Paris to send €40 billion to reduce the budget deficit

The leader of the National Unification Party, Marine Le Pen, called on Paris to send €40 billion, which the country spends annually on the maintenance of migrants, to reduce the budget deficit. She wrote about this in a column for Le Figaro on July 1.

Le Pen said that at the end of June, the French Observatory for Immigration and Demography reported that immigration costs France 35-40 billion euros per year, which is a third of the annual budget revenue from income taxes and exceeds the annual budget of the Interior Ministry.

"€40 billion is exactly the amount that the government is trying to find in order to patch up the 2026 budget with additional taxes. There is no doubt that not a single euro of savings will be made in relation to our immigration policy, which has become an absolute taboo," she wrote.

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