That's a common misrepresentation that the government is very happy for us to believe:
- when the government isn't happy with european law, they just ignore it; see also data retention laws and anti-Rroma laws in France which are famously illegal by european standards
- who controls the EU? the french government is one of the key players (along with Germany) controlling the european commission; french interests dictate what becomes european law
> average income
Minimum wage and taxes on fortune are determined by France, not by the EU.
> industries going abroad
This is determined by private industry, not by EU. However, the french government has powers to nationalize those industries, or requisition them, or help the workers self-organize the production (eg. by fundraising to keep activities going). They are just ideologically opposed to that (because they're capitalists), despite all their broken promises for the workers. 1336 and LIP are famous French examples of what workers self-organization can achieve when the government doesn't get in the way.
> pushing to welcome more immigrants
This is controlled by France, not EU, and France is definitely not welcoming immigrants. France has closed its borders (for people, not merchandise) many times since 2015 in contradiction to the Schengen treaty. There are many people dying on the French border, and the government couldn't care less (see also Aquarius scandal). France has also been condemned by the european court of human rights for deporting people before they can apply for asylum at the italian border (which is illegal in international treaties). French police is hunting for undocumented folks; you can see them in the metro in bigger cities controlling anyone who isn't white so they can deport as many people as possible.
> become jobless due to the loss of our industries
We become jobless not through lack of industry, but because the work and resources aren't shared. We live in one of the richest nations on Earth, and we could all work 5-15h weeks and enjoy modern comfort. But people in power like it that over 10% of the population lives under the poverty line. Once again, this is due to the french oligarchy, not the EU.
- The european Union is not managed by France but by non-elected people seating and advising at the European Union level. You know people like mario draghi who was working at goldman sachs before taking a leading role in the EU without winning any election. Those people ex-american bankers that bring us "open market" laws that force services to become profitable (today is the post office, high speed train, tomorrow hospitals). you know those service that charge you more for a Paris-Marseille because they also serve remote locations in France at a loss to serve the few people that use this service there and have no other solution. Well Europe is a commercial entity that doesnt care about service or people. Only thing is the free market. A free market that benefits only one country - a massive export-based economy- in this community : Germany. This is why UK left.
-minimum wage is determined by what is the open market. The open market is EU. why do you think services jobs, trucks drivers, construction workers are underpaid in germany or france? why do you think our minimum salary is so low? It is because we compete with much cheaper workforce from other european countries. Just look at england rise in salary for drivers since Brexit.
-It seems that it escaped from your mind that bringing people from poor countries lower salaries because those people will do the work for cheaper as long as they can send some money home and buy a house further down (which won't be possible anymore for french blue collars due to rising cost of living)
Finally, saying that france is not welcoming immigrants while we are most likely in the top 5 of the most welcoming countries in the world (as a reminder in USA, Australia, Canada - the woke trinity- you need to meet a POINT permit to be welcomed, which at the end means you need 5 year of postgraduate study to be an immigrant there or to come from some quotas that they push for you. In France? Well school is free and you can come to study, you can come through any kind of neighboring countries because we don't have any control there, you can bring your family using "regroupement familial". it is a fallacy to say france is not welcoming immigration.
If you think every first generation immigrant can come and do a white collar job in a developed country it is most likely because you have no immigrant background and do not know of how this works. You working 5-15hours a week doesn't mean someone that has no education, a different culture, a different language will be able to do your job. he will do a blue collar job. and those jobs are disapearing year after year in France. Funnily those job they go to the places those people are leaving. Renault, Citroen, Peugeot and others are building their factories in Magreb, Eastern Europe under the premises that cost of doing that in France is too high while Japanese with toyota are building made in France cars.
Europe is a travesty of the idea it was once. A tool to make France poorer than it was, to remove its industries that could compete with USA or Germany. UK understood it too late as their industries too disappeared but at least they made a move.