For Terra Nova, "without immigrant workers, an essential part of our economy stops"

Terra Nova pleads for the use of immigrating workers to preserve the French social model, reviving the debate on labour immigration.

The progressive think tank estimates that France will have to welcome between 250,000 and 310,000 undocumented workers each year over the next 15 to 20 years in order to guarantee its socio-economic model.

In a report published on Monday 12 May, the think tank Terra Nova, which is rather marked on the left, believes that it is necessary for France to welcome between 250,000 and 310,000 immigrant workers every year until 2040-2050 in order to maintain the active-to-inactive ratio and to guarantee the "sustainability of our social model". In 2022, for example, the country had welcomed 331,000 immigrants, according to INSEE. According to the authors …

To preserve its social model, France must accept thousands of migrant workers each year, the left-wing think tank Terra Nova said in a report published today.

According to the models of this reflection club, marked on the left, between 250,000 and 310,000 immigrant workers must be welcomed each year until 2040-2050.

A study by the think tank highlights the need for foreign labour to keep the country's economy afloat and explores the population's tolerance to this perspective.