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Most French people say there are too many foreigners in France, immigrants do not make an effort to assimilate and Islam is incompatible with the French values.
France's new president clearly has some healing to do when it comes to two longstanding divisive issues in France.
Immigration and the place of Islam in society, are still very much contentious questions for the French, a new annual survey has revealed.
A poll by the Ipsos institute for Le Monde newspaper has revealed that a majority of 65 percent of French people say there are too many foreigners in France, a figure that has remained elevated in recent years, with the figure as high as 70 percent in 2017.