Bruno Retailleau, the radical voice of the French government on home affairs

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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

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