France’s green MPs threaten to derail flagship immigration bill

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Controversial bill aims to introduce mandatory language tests and allow more fast-track deportations

MPs for France’s green party have vowed to scupper the government’s highly controversial immigration bill, which aims to introduce mandatory language tests and allow for more fast-track deportations.

French MPs are due to debate the contested legislation, known as the Darmanin law after the interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, on Monday, but the bill could be killed off even before the debate begins after the green party, Europe Écologie Les Verts, announced it would put forward a motion to reject the law before it was presented to the house.

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