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00:00And on that question of migration, how closely then do you intend to work with
00:05Marine Le Pen's bloc, the Identity and Democracy grouping, because those are
00:11issues that are also very important to them, they're of the same sort of broad
00:15political persuasion as you, you see yourself as more centrist than them, but
00:21she has reached out previously to your grouping, she wants to work with you, so
00:25do you want to work with her in this new parliament? Actually, first of all, you can
00:32work with someone only when the person works. We have been working so hard in
00:36the parliament, I haven't seen any person from the ID group who was doing some
00:40work. If anyone can find a result that they produced, then I would be
00:46very, very surprised. They didn't do anything, so first you can't work with
00:50someone who doesn't work, that's one thing. Second, on migration policy, they
00:54don't want any solution for the migration policy, what they want is to
00:57close all the borders, but it's not realistic, they don't have concrete
01:02answers for any issue, they don't believe integration exists, they
01:07don't believe that people with foreign descents can adapt, so I am very worried
01:11about what the far-left is bringing on the table about identity politics and
01:15what the far-right is also bringing on the table. For them, people like me
01:18are either too white for the far-left, I'm too white because they say that I
01:22have white thoughts, if I think freely, and from the far-right side, I'm too
01:27black because someone like me can never be European, but to be European
01:30is not to be black or white, to be European is to love the European values,
01:35to defend them, to protect them, to be part of Europe, that's how it is,
01:38so I don't think that even trying very hard, we will never be able to work
01:43together, and also we work and they don't, so for me, a centre-right policy
01:49is what will bring real answers to real issues in society.