Welcome to a new episode of Integration or ReImmigration.
Today we’re starting with what has been happening in France, because the data released in recent days aren’t just breaking news — they’re a clear picture of what happens when a country stops demanding integration, stops transmitting its own values, and stops stating, clearly and firmly, that the law of the State comes before any religious or cultural belonging.
According to a survey that sparked major debate, a significant percentage of young French Muslims consider Sharia more important than the laws of the Republic. Regardless of the methodological disputes surrounding these numbers, the trend is unmistakable: a part of the second generation does not fully recognize the authority of the State.
This is not a religious problem, nor an ethnic one. It is the result of failed integration.
For years, France believed that formal equality alone would be enough to build a sense of belonging. It believed that avoiding discussions about identity would prevent conflict. It believed that integration would happen naturally, spontaneously, on its own.
But integration does not happen by itself. Integration must be guided, demanded, and verified. And the State must have the courage to affirm that certain values are non-negotiable: the primacy of democratic law, gender equality, personal freedom, and the separation between religious and civil law.
When the State retreats from these principles, someone else takes that space: often radical groups, often the most uncompromising religious leaders, often alternative identity models that offer certainty where the State offers only silence.
The core point is simple: there can be no cultural vacuum.
If the State does not build integration, someone else builds belonging. And that belonging is not always compatible with Western values.
What is happening in France is therefore a warning for all of Europe — including Italy. Because the dynamics of second-generation communities are similar everywhere. The identity conflict is the same. And the choice is inevitable: either integration is real, or the distance between social groups grows.
This is exactly where the Integration or ReImmigration paradigm becomes necessary — not as a slogan but as a rule.
Anyone living in a European country must integrate along three essential pillars: work, language, and respect for the law. These are not optional. They are the minimum requirement for being part of a national community.
And the State must apply this principle consistently.
Those who integrate stay.
Those who do not integrate return to their country.
Not as punishment, but as a matter of logic, public order, and mutual respect.
The French case demonstrates this clearly: when integration becomes optional, parallel systems eventually emerge, with their own rules. And when the rules diverge, there is no longer one society — there are two. And they cannot coexist peacefully for long.
Italy still has time to avoid this outcome. But it must choose the right path now: demand integration, measure it, enforce it, and act decisively when it is absent.
Thank you for listening to this new episode of Integration or ReImmigration.
Join me next time as we continue to address, clearly and without filters, the issues that migration policies can no longer afford to ignore.
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