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Immigration, Marine Tondelier

Right of asylum: Collegial panels at the CNDA, immediate right to work for asylum seekers

Direction of change: increase, compared with current law.

The lever. Reception and examination of asylum applications: procedure, time limits, place where applications are lodged, removal of rejected applicants. Direction rule: ↑ broader access to asylum.

« Rétablir le principe de collégialité à la Cour nationale du droit d’asile (supprimée par la loi Darmanin). Automatiser le droit au travail dès la délivrance de l’attestation de demande d’asile sans délai et sans autorisation de travail. »1

Translation by the editorsRestore the principle of collegiality at the Cour nationale du droit d’asile (National Court of Asylum) (abolished by the Darmanin law). Make the right to work automatic as soon as the asylum application certificate is issued, with no waiting period and no work permit.

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Collegial hearings at the CNDA (national asylum court): fees for two assessors for the 1,469 single-judge hearings of 2025, about €0.4m to €0.6m a year (editors' calculation based on the CNDA activity report and the 2018 order), less than €0.01bn: a negligible cost on the scale of the cost schedule. Immediate right to work for applicants: its effect on the allowance and on contributions depends on behaviour, not costable on a static basis.

Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule

Current law. Right of asylum guaranteed by the CESEDA and EU law. The European Pact on Migration and Asylum, adopted on 14 May 2024, applies from June 2026. In 2026, the « Immigration, asile et intégration » mission receives €2.16bn in payment appropriations, 64% of it for asylum (asylum seeker allowance and accommodation). Asylum seeker allowance: €313.4m in 2026, of which €241.4m for applicants. Accommodation for asylum seekers: 111,855 places budgeted in 2026. Asylum applications: 151,665 in 2025 (AFP), 145,270 lodged with the Ofpra (French refugee protection office) (2025 activity report), of which 8,897 in Guyane and 1,593 in Mayotte, and 1,677 requests for entry on asylum grounds made at the border. Cour nationale du droit d'asile (National Court of Asylum): 53,086 decisions in 2025, of which 10,413 by a single judge after a hearing (1,469 single-judge hearings), since the Act of 26 January 2024.

Horizon. Full year, current €bn, based on 2026 appropriations (no projection to 2032 in the sources)

Limits. The unit cost is calculated from the sources: 64% × €2.16bn ≈ €1.38bn, divided by 151,665 applications, i.e. about €9,100 per application and €0.09bn for 10,000 applications. Bottom of the range: the asylum seekers' allowance alone (€241.4m / 151,665 × 10,000 ≈ €0.016bn), if the accommodation stock remains fixed in the short term. No source gives a top of the range, hence top = central. Not counted: costs of OFPRA and CNDA, of AME for rejected applicants, of mainstream emergency accommodation. The mission budget covers only part of the cost of immigration: €7.82bn across 12 missions, and €1.8bn per year for the fight against irregular immigration alone according to the Cour des comptes (2024). The “abolition of the allowance” option is legally contrary to EU law, hence a purely indicative costing. Applications registered on French territory, for a measure that only accepts applications made at the border or outside France: 151,665 − 1,677 ≈ 150,000 (editors' calculation). Return to collegial panels at the CNDA (editors' calculation, not retained as an option: under €0.01bn, it would show as a zero cost): 1,469 single-judge hearings in 2025 (CNDA) × two assessors × €145 to €195 per sitting (Order of 12 December 2018, art. 3; amounts possibly amended by the Order of 31 December 2024, not read), i.e. €0.4m to €0.6m per year; the presiding judge of the panel is already the single judge; travel and premises not counted.

How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.

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  1. Pour une prospérité écologique, programme des Écologistes, p. 178. Open the document at this page.

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