“…due to a significant mismatch between the taxes immigrants contribute and the services they consume.”

Le Figaro reports that, according to OID, taxes collected from immigrants cover only 86 per cent of their fiscal cost, creating what it calls a “budget deficit.” This imbalance is largely due to low employment rates among immigrants: only 62.4 per cent of working-age immigrants in France are employed—one of the lowest rates in the European Union, just ahead of Belgium. The French native population, by comparison, has a 69.5 per cent employment rate.

The OID argues that if immigrants were employed at the same rate as native-born citizens, French GDP would be 3.4 per cent higher, and taxable income would rise by 1.5 percentage points.

The report adds to growing skepticism across Europe over the idea that mass migration is an economic benefit. Even Britain’s Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer recently stated that the assumption that immigration automatically leads to economic growth has been “tested” and “doesn’t hold.” Starmer added a stark warning: unless migration policy is reevaluated, Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers.”

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