Welfare systems and immigration are incompatible. As conditions worsen, France may need some form of ECB rescue, but it'll come with fiscal restrictions far more onerous than what was already viewed as intolerable.
Every European experiment ends the same way
@BATMongoose There are two academic papers that suggest that immigration has negligible impact on GDP growth in France and that it may be negative once usage of public goods is accounted for.
@grok can you find these studies? One might have been in 2001?