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   France will from next year start setting quotas for migrant workers,
   its labour minister said Tuesday, as President Emmanuel Macron's
   government seeks to toughen immigration policies in response to
   right-wing criticism.
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   Starting next year, authorities working with employers will identify
   industries lacking qualified candidates and facilitate the hiring of
   foreigners to fill the gap, Labour Minister Muriel Penicaud said.

   "This is about France hiring based on its needs. It's a new approach,
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   France does not produce enough qualified candidates.

   Penicaud did not say how many foreign workers would be granted visas,
   nor if an applicant's nationality would be taken into account, a
   proposal aired by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe last month.

   Philippe is spearheading Macron's move to toughen rules on immigration
   in a bid to woo right-wing voters who accuse the government of allowing
   in too many foreigners despite unemployment at 8.5 percent in the
   second quarter.

   Analysts say Macron's prime political rival in the run-up to 2022
   presidential elections remains the far-right National Rally (RN) leader
   Marine Le Pen.
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   and Africa since 2015.

   Macron also wants more EU members to share the burden of taking in
   migrants allowed to stay, a move opposed by several countries in
   Eastern and Central Europe.

   Macron drew the ire of Bulgaria's government last week after saying in
   a magazine interview that he wanted migrants from Guinea or Ivory
   Coast, who worked in a legal way, rather than "clandestine networks of
   Bulgarians and Ukrainians".

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