55% in France say keep rules
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A MAJORITY of French people are against softening rules to access refugee status, a poll showed yesterday, even as thousands took to the streets to show their solidarity with those seeking asylum in europe.
Around 8,500 people marched in Paris on Saturday carrying banners such as “Refugees welcome.” There were similar demonstrations in other cities.
But a poll conducted for le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France daily newspaper showed 55 percent of the 1,000 people surveyed opposed to an easing of rules, including for Syrians fleeing civil war.
Thirty-three percent thought France was less hospitable to war refugees than Germany, which opened its door to several hundred thousands of migrants in the last months, while 44 percent thought they are on the same line.
France is considering joining a coalition conducting airstrikes on Islamic State in Syria, le Monde said on its websit, quoting an unnamed “high-level source.”
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