Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, is being lined up for one of the world’s most powerful humanitarian jobs: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. With Emmanuel Macron’s backing, she hopes to swap the Hôtel de Ville in Paris for Geneva, taking charge of a $10 billion global operation that defines who counts as stateless, who deserves protection, and indirectly who gets to enter countries like Britain.
Now the very policies that have fuelled Paris’s dysfunction could be about to be exported globally
Anne Hidalgo ruined Paris. She has destroyed its ancient heritage, dug it into a giant financial black hole, and left the city choking on traffic, crime, and ideological nonsense. She brags about planting trees and engages in green posturing while pavements crumble. Her possible leap to the United Nations is an insult to the city she’s broken. Hidalgo’s aggressive immigration policies, which prioritise newcomers at the expense of long-time Parisians, have fuelled the decline.
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