Rapidly implementing the European Pact on Asylum and Migration and revising the Returns Directive: France's Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, is announcing firm policies, even if it means moving closer to Europe's radical right.
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00:00He is the new kid on the block at the Council of the European Union.
00:11Frenchman Bruno Retailleur attended his first meeting of interior ministers on Thursday.
00:16Before taking his first steps on the European stage, the French representative immediately
00:21set his political stance.
00:23He wants a firmer approach to migration policy.
00:28Bruno Retailleur is calling for the European Asylum and Migration Pact to be implemented
00:45as quickly as possible or even ahead of schedule.
00:49He also wants to review the return directive, the guiding principle of which is to return
00:54all illegal immigrants to their country of origin or transit.
01:14Also the new French interior minister does not rule out any a priori solution to the
01:19transfer of migrants to centres outside the European Union along the lines of the agreement
01:24between Italy and Albania.
01:26This radical stance is echoed across Europe where the far right is on the rise.
01:31His proactive stance may not actually be directed at the member states.
02:02Bruno Retailleur also sparked controversy over the rule of law.
02:09He believes that as a principle this is neither intangible nor sacred, a comment quickly reframed
02:15by the French Prime Minister.
02:17However, remarks like these seem to have won over the Hungarian leader, Viktor Orban, who
02:22told the press at the European Parliament that he had a lot of respect for the French